A short response to Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare… Everyone knows this image but being asked to single out an element to return to – a pivotal point in the image that the eyes return too I have to scratch my head a little because at first it’s obvious – its the foot, a fraction ofContinue reading “Exercise 5.3 – Looking at Photography”
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Exercise 5.2 – Homage
Repulsive and beautiful. Much of the work of Maisie Cousins could be described with those two words. I came across her a year or two ago by accident listening to Radio 4 talking to young female artists of which Maisie was one (along with Juno Calypso I think). When I looked her up I wasContinue reading “Exercise 5.2 – Homage”
Exercise 5.1 – The Distance Between Us
So to choose an image for this without forcing myself to shoot family meant going back to images I had taken in lockdown. The image I have chosen is actually something I had pretty much forgotten about as I was unhappy with it. I still am really, but in a way the part I amContinue reading “Exercise 5.1 – The Distance Between Us”
Exercise 4.4 Personal Voice
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 the ‘Creativity’Continue reading “Exercise 4.4 Personal Voice”
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”
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”
Lee Abbey OCA Photography Degree 