Overall Comments You have interpreted this assignment in relation to Cartier Bresson and the concept of the decisive moment. From your own research it is apparent that you are aware of other ideas in making images and also of critical views regarding the concept of the decisive moment. The images that you have submitted for …
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Assignment 2 Feedback
Overall Comments The work submitted for this assignment and the exercises carried out indicate a good level of development in your approach to photography. There are still some areas of technical skill in using the camera that need attention as there is a tendency for some of the images to be soft in focusing. In …
Assignment 1 Feedback
Overall Comments This is the first assignment that you have undertaken to cover the requirements of the course. In doing so you have demonstrated a development of technical skill. You have started to work your way through the recommended exercises and this will help develop your visual awareness and an understanding of the course requirements. …
Altered Ocean
Mandy Barker’s “motivation for the past 10 years has been to raise awareness of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.”1 We are all familiar with discarded refuse on our beaches and shorelines. When we pay a visit to the seaside it can be hard to miss such sights. In recent years the problem of pollution …
The (in)decisive moment
Assignment Brief Create a set of between six and ten finished images on the theme of the decisive moment. You may choose to create imagery that supports the tradition of the ‘decisive moment’ or you may choose to question or invert the concept by presenting a series of ‘indecisive’ moments. Your aim isn’t to tell …
Project 3 – ‘What matters is to look’
The Present – Paul Graham reviewed by Colin Pantall In Colin Pantall’s review of Graham’s book The Present, Pantall, C. (2012), he highlights how the images presented are the opposite of the decisive moment, so much so that we are left in the position of not knowing what we are looking at. Pantall suggests that …
Lockdown Reflections
This is the fourth week that I’ve been at home since the Lockdown started. Monday to Friday I’m normally on my home until my partner gets back from work, which is usually around lunchtime. Most days I’ve been working from home, I’m lucky enough to be able to do that. Still being at home gives …
Decisions
When it was announced that the United Kingdom was going into lockdown and we would all face restrictions as to where we could go and for how long, I was beginning to think about what I would be able to do to capture the Decisive, or indecisive, Moment. I was aware that doing an assignment …
Exercise 3.3 – What matters is to look
The brief for this exercise is to find a good viewpoint where you can see a wide view or panorama. Look at the things closes to you in the foreground. Then pay attention to the details in the middle distance and then the things towards the horizon. Try to see the whole visual field together, …
Project 2 – A durational space
Robert Capa Capa’s ‘D-Day and the Omaha Beach landings’, Magnum (2017) must be one of the most well-known images of the 20th century. Taken during the D-Day landings, Capa had joined American forces during the landings at Omaha Beach. Having made his way to the beach from a landing craft, with soldiers trying to make …
Jenna Powell - Expressing Your Vision 