Lee Abbey

Exercise 4.3 Egg or Stone

Use a combination of quality, contrast, direction and colour to light an object in order toreveal its form. If I learnt one thing from this exercise it’s – plan. Not necessarily a big plan but at least the back of a fag packet’s worth. By this stage of part 4 I had already shot aContinue reading “Exercise 4.3 Egg or Stone”

Exercise 4.2 Artificial Light

Capture ‘the beauty’ of artificial light in a short sequence of shots…. I loved the look of Sato Shintaro’s night time shots but there was one taken at blue hour that I found the most inspiring. Rut Blees Luxemburgs images of reflected signs were also an inspiration, the bright artificial lights of the signage combiningContinue reading “Exercise 4.2 Artificial Light”

Exercise 4.1 Daylight

Trust me to hit this topic when it starts raining for a week. Never mind – at least it means my choice is easy – overcast sky. Having a giant softbox of a sky reveals a truth. There’s no shadow to hide, there’s nothing to delineate depth, colours appear muted. How boring! Except it’s not.Continue reading “Exercise 4.1 Daylight”

Grey Day

A very quick research post. Although I knew that a camera measures around mid-grey I had never bothered to experiment as suggested in the EYV manual to show just how white and black when taken as a whole frame are treated the same. I took four photos ranging from white, light grey, dark grey andContinue reading “Grey Day”

Assignment 3: The (in)decisive moment

In order to show the Assignment with as little clutter as possible this assignment shows just the selected images together with some thoughts and reflection. The research taken for this assignment is available on the blog post here. My discussion on method, process, selection and other influences/research along with the bibliography can be found here.Continue reading “Assignment 3: The (in)decisive moment”

Decision Time

Assignment 3 – Idea and Method Summer has nearly gone and it feels like I’ve sat on my hands for 6 weeks. I can’t work out if I’ve spent too long mulling stuff over in my head or too little time actually bloody doing. Indecisive indeed. I have taken a risk or at least itContinue reading “Decision Time”

Decisive Moment Research

What seemed fairly clear to me at the beginning of this exercise through sole exposure to HCB as ‘Decisive Moment’ has become jumbled and scrambled and put together in a different way so at the end of this assignment my understanding is improved and enriched but the definition has become more nebulous and obfuscated. AfterContinue reading “Decisive Moment Research”

Exercise 3.3 What Matters Is to Look

The brief for this short exercise was interesting. In honesty Giacometti was someone I barely knew. I knew the name from the Cartier-Bresson photograph of him crossing in the rain and that’s about it – clearly a man he dearly loved. I wasn’t sure at first that I agreed with his way of seeing butContinue reading “Exercise 3.3 What Matters Is to Look”

Exercise 3.2 Trace

Using slow shutter speeds, multiple exposures or another technique inspired by the examples try to record the trace of movement within the frame. Be as experimental as you like. For my research on this exercise see this blog post on my learning log which also contains all bibliography information. Overview I loved experimenting for thisContinue reading “Exercise 3.2 Trace”

Trace Research

I ended up as probably most students do on this topic a little bit obsessed with Francesca Woodman. The story of her untimely death at 22 is initially at least a big part of it but the photography speaks for itself. I found myself watching documentaries and serious presentations on the artist but didn’t actuallyContinue reading “Trace Research”