The brief for this exercise was to find a location with a good light for a portrait shot. Place your subject some distance in front of a simple background and select a wide aperture together with a moderately long focal length. Take a viewpoint about one and a half metres from your subject, allowing you …
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Exercise 1.4: Frame
The brief for this exercise was to make use of the grid display on the camera. A nuber of shots were to be taken, each composed within a single section of the viewfinder grid. The rest of the frame does not need to be composed. Any combination of grid section, subject and viewpoint can be …
Thomas Ruff – jpegs
http://davidcampany.com/thomas-ruff-the-aesthetics-of-the-pixel http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2009/04/review_jpegs_by_thomas_ruff The above links are referenced in the course manual in Part 1 Project 3 Surface and Depth. The review by Colberg leaves you with the impression that he appreciates the work that has gone into producing jpegs but they are a little disappointed in it. Colberg starts their review by admitting that Ruff …
Altered Ocean
Book Info Title: altered oceanAuthor: Mandy BarkerPublished: 2019By: Germany (Overlapse)Edition: 1st Review This book accompanies the exhibition of the same name containing work produced by Mandy Barker. Her work documents the impact that plastics and other items produced by mankind has on the environment. In particular, the seas and oceans and the creatures that inhabit …
The Photograph
Book Info Title: The PhotographAuthor: Graham ClarkePublished: 1997By: New York (Oxford University Press)Edition: 1st Review This book is an introduction to art history, with an emphasis on photography. It consists of a series of essays covering different aspects of photography, including its history. Each of the topics puts its subject matter into its historical context, …
Exercise 1.3 The Line
For this exercise the brief was to take a number of shots using lines to create a sense of depth. The set of images below are where I’ve attempted to do this. Part 1 Take a number of shots using lines to create a sense of depth. In “Wood and stream“, the path of the …
Square Mile
The brief for this assignment was to make a series of six to twelve photographs in response to the concept of “Square Mile”. My initial response to the brief was that I wanted to take photos of the River Yeo and the streams that feed it as they make their way through Yeovil. This idea …
Exercise 1.2: The Point
My first attempt at this exercise, for which I have no copies of the photos because I wiped the memory card before checking that I’d copied the images off, was of two of my neighbours cats sitting on top of the garages next to my house. Reviewing the images I could see that I’d done …
Exercise 1.1 The instrument
The brief for this exercise was to take three or four exposures of the same scene, without changing anything on the camera and keeping the framing the same. Following that the histogram for each photo was to be examined and the small variations in the histogram noted. The sequence, along with time info from the …
Square Mile – Research
The following have spent time within their locality and/or in an autobiographical way: Keith Arnatt: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/keith-arnatt-666 From the webpage above I found my way to a page on the Tate website that showed 133 of Keith Arnatt’s images. One of the first that I saw was the Self-Burial (Television Interference Project). I was familiar with …
Jenna Powell - Expressing Your Vision 