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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
