Brief Capture ‘the beauty of artifical light’ in a short sequence of shots (‘beauty’ is of course a subjective term). The correct white balance setting will be important; this can get tricky – but interesting – if there are mixed light sources of different colour temperature in the same shot. You can shoot indoors or …
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Assignment 4 – Languages of Light
Brief Revisit one of the exercises on daylight, artificial light from Part 4 (Ex 4.1, Ex 4.2 or Ex 4.3) and develop it into a formal assignment submission. The submission requirement for this assignment is a set of between six and ten high quality photographic prints. There are many ways to edit and the most …
Languages of Light
For this assignment I decided to develop the work from Exercise 4.3 using inspiration gained from an image by Jean-Baptise Huynh called Crane en Cristal Crystal skulls are made from clear or milky white quartz and are said to date back to the Aztec and Mayan civilisations. None, however, of those currently date back this …
I Photograph to Remember
Pedro Meyer is a Mexican photographer. Although born in Spain, his family emigrated to Mexico in 1937. Initially a documentary photographer he is also known as the founder of ZoneZero, a photography webiste. In 1991 he published the first ever CD-ROM containing sound and images. I came across Meyer’s work, in the book Photograph and …
Exercise 4.4 : Personal Voice
Brief Make a Google Images search for ‘landscape’, ‘portrait’, or any ordinary subject such as ‘apple’ or ‘sunset’. Add a screengrab of a representative page to your learning log and note down the similarities you find between the images. Now take a number of your own photographs of the same subject, paying special attention to …
Exercise 4.3: Egg or Stone
Brief Use a combination of quality, contrast, direction and colour to light an object in order to reveal its form. For this exercise, we recommend that you choose a natural or organic object such as an egg or stone rather than a man-made object. Man-made or cultural artefacts can be fascinating to light but they’re …
Sally Mann – Hold Still
This is described as “A Memoir with Photographs” and describes Mann’s life, while exploring the lives of her forebears through photographs, information passed down verbally and in writing, and research. It is also a story of life and death. Sally Mann talks about the death of family members, including her father, but that is not …
Nan Goldin
“The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” “is the diary I let people read.” It is a visual diary of the family and friends that make up Goldin’s tribe. Originally a slide show with a musical soundtrack, it was eventually made into a book. In the forward to the book Nan Golding talks about why this visual …
The languages of light
Before starting part 4 of Express Your Vision I thought I’d give some thought to how I might approach the coursework, especially because we are still under lockdown because of COVID-19. With that in mind I drew up an initial flowchart to give me some idea of the direction I planned to take. Different Types …
Exercise 4.1: Daylight
Brief Taking the photography of Mann, Atget or Schmidt or a photographer of your own choosing as your starting point, shoot a number of photographs exploring the quality of natural light. The exercise should be done in manual mode and the important thing is to observe the light, not just photograph it. In your learning …
Jenna Powell - Expressing Your Vision 