There were many events going on inside the convention; BMX/Skateboard demostrations, Rollergirls vs Rollergirls Derby and a Vintage Car Show as well as the many tattoo artists and trade vendors that were there.
I started off by walking around the stalls that the tattoo artists were situated in. They came from all around the world from England to Poland and even Borneo and New Zealand.
There were 56 artists altogether contributing to the electrical buzz filling the centre.
I took some shots of a variety of people, young guys and older women, and also of the variety of talent there yesterday.
As i received a press pass i was able to go anywhere with the convention.
I managed to gain access to a balcony above the hall where the tattoo artists were working away to gain a birds eye type view of the centre.
I was a very good experience and i am glad that i chose this topic for my project.I was quite disappointed with some of the shots that i had taken though.
If i were to do this professionally i would use better equipment and place the models in a setting that would enhance their tattoos and that would benefit the image; taking out any background images that may disrupt the images.
There were many good examples of tattoos and great poses that the models were sat in for their tattoos to be formed and they would have made great shots if they were sat against a white or black background.
I also met the editor of Skin Deep magazine, Neil Dalleywater, who was there taking professional photographs in a set up booth of people who wanted their tattoos photographed.
If i were to do this project professionally, i would use the set-up Dalleywater was using, to enhance my images.
Overally i enjoyed the day, but felt limited in the way that i couldnt capture the crowd just moving steadily through the stalls, as it was too busy to stand still and take a clear shot down the stalls.
Many people were also getting quite large detailed tattoos, so once you had seen them as you walked round, as you came back they were still sat there.
It would have been interesting to take gradual shots of the tattoo as it progressed to the final stage, but it was too busy and time consuming to do so.
I also wanted to capture emotions and relaxed poses, but the people there seemed to have seen it all before, and many were heavily tattooed, so pain didnt seem an option to them.
Some of the clients didnt talk much to the artist either, so i couldnt capture that customer interaction i believe an artist should have with his subjects.
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