My video assessment for Assignment 4 was held with my tutor, Andrea Norrington, on the 19th of November and she feels that I have made really good progress in completing my work. Feedback on assignment: Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills, Quality of Outcome, Demonstration of Creativity We discussed my learning about studio lighting for … Continue reading Feedback & Reflection on Assignment 4
Brief Revisit one of the exercises on daylight, artificial light or controlled light from Part Four (Ex 4.1, Ex 4.2 or Ex 4.3) and develop it into a formal assignment submission. The submission requirement for this assignment is a set of between six and ten high-quality photographic prints. Assessment of photography in any context is … Continue reading Assignment four: Languages of light
On the D-day, the final assignment shoot, we started the day with the acrobat students’ practising solo and then moving on to a mix of ground and mid air preparatory shots with two people before the final shots were attempted, once I set up my background, various lights, and got my tethering system going. My … Continue reading Assignment Four-Preparatory shots
Eugène Atget, a French photographer, started his career around 1890 when he started a small business of providing images, that he preferred to call documents, as a source material to be used by other artists in their work, similar to stock photos of today, known as “Documents pour artistes” (Documents for artists) in Paris. The … Continue reading Research Take-aways- Eugène Atget
Born in 1945 after the end of World War II, Michael Schmidt, Berlin-born German photographer and winner of the prestigious Prix Pictet award in 2014, which is the highest recognition in photography in relation to contemporary environmental issues, was one of the most influential social-documentary photographers of the world. His approach to photography was investigatory … Continue reading Research take-aways-Michael Schmidt
Sally Mann, a renowned American photographer, is the recipient of numerous awards and was named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time magazine in 2001. Her works are held by numerous prestigious institutions worldwide and she is the author of several books including At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), Proud Flesh (2009), The Flesh … Continue reading Research Take-aways – Sally Mann
Brief 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 … Continue reading Exercise 4.4: Personal Voice
Brief 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 or stone rather than a man-made object. Man-made or cultural artefacts can be fascinating to light but they’re … Continue reading Exercise 4.3: Egg or stone
Brief 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 … Continue reading Exercise 4.2: Artificial Light – Whisky Bottle
Brief– Taking the photography of Mann, Atget or Schmidt or a photographer of your own choosing as your starting point, shoot a number of photographs exploring the quality of natural light. The exercise should be done in manual mode and the important thing is to observe the light, not just photograph it. In your learning … Continue reading Exercise 4.1: Daylight – Portraits
