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”
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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”
Lee Abbey OCA Photography Degree 