Brief Use you camera as a measuring device. This doesn’t refer to the distance scale on the focus ring. Rather, find a subject that you have an empathy with and take a sequence of shots to ‘explore the distance between you’. Add the sequence to your learning log, indicating which is your ‘select’ – your …
Category Archives: Part 5
Research Point: Photographs and Context
The following is the result of reading the following by Terry Barrett and some of the points raised: – ‘Photographs and Context’: terrybarrettosu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/B_PhotAndCont_97.pdf How a photograph is interpreted can easily be different to what the photographer intended. Especially if the photographer is not involved in how their image is used. When a person gives consent …
Exercise 5.2: Homage
Brief Select an image my any photographer of your choice and take a photograph in response to it. You can respond in any way you like to the whole image or to just a part of it, but you must make explicit in your notes what it is you’re responding to. Is it a stylistic …
Exercise 5.3: Looking at Photography
Brief No photos required. Produce a creative response of about 300 words to Cartier-Bresson’s ‘Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare’. Response Memory is funny. When we consider an event from our past, we remember the things that stood out. Those things that stood out. Those things that were so vivid that they etched themselves in out memory. …
Jenna Powell - Expressing Your Vision 