Research task #1 - Back to Basics

So its the 3rd and final year of the course, im not sure what to expect but im sure its going to be alot of fun and alot of hard work.

My goals for this semester is basically to improve my skills in extreme sports photography and build a very solid portfolio based around many different extreme sports. This is the direction I have chosen to take my photography style, i have tried many different styles of photography from products to fashion. I have enjoyed tried all these different areas but i never felt like it was something I would love to do for a career.

So now i have decided to go back to where photography began for me, Extreme Sports....

I first found myself holding a camera taking photos of me and my mates skating, back then with no dreams of being a photographer but only a pro skater as that is every skaters dream.

I started shooting this semesters folio about 1 week ago and am having the most fun with my photography since i started the course. This is the style of photography i can see myself shooting for a career, i still love shooting different things such a products people and food but these also can accommodate the extreme sports photos.

I started the course to shoot other things than skating and to learn new techniques, i found myself very obliged to not shoot skating and find what i would like to shoot for a living but after 2 years i have found I really only wanted to shoot extreme sports.

At the end of 3rd year I am going to take a well deserved gap year and travel. I want to shoot as much international extreme sports overseas and come back with the best possible portfolio i can have. On my journey i want to sell my shots to magazines and make money by freelancing. My main goal within this type of photography would be to have a contract with a company such as Saloman and travel the world shooting assigned jobs.