Introduction This is my reworked assignment after having received my feedback from my tutor. Things that worked well: My images were well composed made extensive use of leading lines to draw eye through the image. I achieved a consistency across the set of images in terms of the tone and overarching background. Additional shots in […]
Category: Part 1
Research: A Review of Ruff’s Jpegs by Campney and Colberg
Introduction Ruff has created a series of artworks which take images, either his own or others found on the internet, and applied heavy jpeg compression to create an artefact effect across his images. One of his collections is called JPEG, this note discusses two reviews of his work, one by Campney (2008) and one by […]
Exercise 1.4: Frame
Exercise Take a good number of shots, composing each shot within a single section of the viewfinder grid. Don’t bother about the rest of the frame! Use any combination of grid section, subject and viewpoint you choose. When you review the shots, evaluate the whole frame, not just the part you’ve composed. Take the same […]
Exercise: The difference between Framing and Cropping
Question This task is describe the difference between framing an image and cropping an image. Discussion I think that the difference between the two concepts lies in the time that the action is being taken and therefore the range of things available to the photographer to control Framing –takes places at the time the image […]
Exercise 1.3(2): Line
Exercise Take a number of shots using lines to flatten the pictorial space. To avoid the effects of perspective, the sensor/film plane should be parallel to the subject and you may like to try a high viewpoint (i.e. looking down). Modern architecture offers strong lines and dynamic diagonals, and zooming in can help to create […]
Research: Landscape Photographer of the Year 2016 Exhibition and Book
Visit On the 2nd Feb 2017 I visited the Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition that was showing at Waterloo Station. I chose to visit this because if I were to have named a genre of photography that I have most followed before starting this course, it would have been landscape. As well as wanting […]
Exercise 1.3(1): Line
The Exercise Take a number of shots using lines to create a sense of depth. Shooting with a wide- angle lens (zooming out) strengthens a diagonal line by giving it more length within the frame. The effect is dramatically accentuated if you choose a viewpoint close to the line. Setup For this exercise I took […]
Exercise 1.2 Point: Part 2 Tracing the Passage of the Eye
Exercise Print out two or three of your point photographs and trace the route your eye takes over the surface with a pencil. Then try the same with a selection of photographs from newspapers or magazines (or the example above). You should notice that each photograph seems to have its own tempo. Add the traced […]
Exercise 1.2 Point: Part 1
Exercise Take two or three photographs in which a single point is placed in different parts of the frame. (A ‘point’ should be small in relationship to the frame; if it’s too large it becomes a shape.) How can you evaluate the pictures? How do you know whether you’ve got it right or not? Is […]
Exercise 1.1: The Instrument
The Instrument Exercise In this exercise I had to take 4 identical pictures, just a few seconds apart. Once taken the task was to look at the histogram for each image and observe that even though the image looks the same to the human eye, there are in fact differences. These differences show just how […]