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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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 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 […]

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 […]

This is the first post in my blog which will record all of my learnings, research and assignments as I work towards a photography degree with The Open College of Arts.. I hope that during the studies I will gain a greater understanding of how to express the way I feel about the world around […]