Reflection Overall I was pleased with the feedback I got from this assignment. I set out to capture a specific theme of Man versus Nature and use the technique that I had identified when researching Schmidt. I was pleased that my tutor thought that these were apparent in the same way that I thought they […]
Category: Part 4
Assignment 4: Reflection
Demonstration of technical and visual skills I think observational skills and technical techniques came to the fore in this exercise. As described in my assignment write up, my objective was to portray how harsh the (very green) landscape is towards anything manmade. To frame images that do that when faced with what are stunning mountainous […]
Assignment 4: Submission
Man Versus Nature Topic Selection I chose to base this exercise on daylight – evolving Exercise 4.2 further. I made this choice not so much based on what I learned in carrying out the exercise but more because of what I learned in my research. When reviewing both Mann and Schmidt I was intrigued to […]
Assignment 4: Initial Thoughts
Initial Thoughts As per the instructions for this part of the course I read ahead to the Assignment and saw that the assignment builds on any of the three main exercises in this part. At the time of reading I was not so sure which exercise I would choose to build on. I decided to […]
Exercise 4.5: Creativity
Assignment 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 4.4: Ex nihilo
Exercise 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, stone, vegetable or plant, or the human face or body, rather than a man-made object. Setup For this […]
Research: Rut Blees Luxemburg
The Photographer and her Images Rut Blees Luxemburg is included in this part of my research due to her project Liebeslied (which translates to “love song”). The exploration in this series is the usage of artificial light. Whilst reviewing her project, I came to see that she has used two distinct styles of framing. Urban […]
Exercise 4.3: Artificial Light
Exercise Capture ‘the beauty of artificial 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 temperatures in the same shot. You can shoot indoors or outside […]
Research: Sato Shintaro
Neon Lights Sato Shintaro is a Japanese photographer who has created a number of series of images that capture Tokyo at night. A screen shot from his sight is shown in the image below (Shintaro, 1999) The set of images linked to in the course materials are focussed exclusively on the neon signage within the […]
Exercise 4.2: Light During the Day
Exercise In manual mode take a sequence of shots of a subject of your choosing at different times on a single day. It doesn’t matter if the day is overcast or clear but you need a good spread of times from early morning to dusk. You might decide to fix your viewpoint or you might […]