The feedback for assignment 4 gave some suggested reading about colour and I have been exploring that through the websites provided and also several books and an article in Outdoor Photography magazine issue 263. When we think of certain objects we immediately associate a colour with them. Sky – blue, danger – red, snow – …
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Photography is Simple – Ideas and Thoughts
The brief for the final assignment for Express Your Vision is to take a series of photographs of any subject exploring the theme ‘Photography is Simple’. Equipment When I started thinking about the theme, I decided that I wanted to get back to basics and do away with all the expensive equipment that we use …
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Photography is Simple
Brief Take a series of 10 photographs of any subject exploring the theme ‘Photography is Simple’. Each photograph should be a unique view; in other words, it should contain some new information, rather than repeat the information of the previous image. Notes This assignment took me back to my youth, before the days of digitial …
Assignment 4 Feedback
Overall Comments This is an interesting submission raising issues of what meaning we want to communicate and how this can be done. In this assignment you have outlined your intentions and these has been underpinned by analysis of your thinking and critical process in developing the ideas. The images indicate that you were comfortable working …
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 …
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 …
Assignment 3 Feedback
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 …
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 …
Jenna Powell - Expressing Your Vision 