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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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 …
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 …
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