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”
Category Archives: Part 3
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”
Exercise 3.1 Freeze
There has always been something magical for me about the ability to capture ‘freeze frame’ images. I remember seeing some of Edgerton’s work as a kid and being amazed – bullets through cards, apples etc – all stayed with me and stored in a dark compartment of my mind – now dusted down, reopened andContinue reading “Exercise 3.1 Freeze”
Lee Abbey OCA Photography Degree 