Wednesday 25th November

Today we spent the half day we had just getting on with things that we needed to do, so I spent my time editing the photo's that I took in the cove yesterday and reading through my blog to see if it was all up to date and correct etc..I also helped Bridey pick out her final piece photo (which is of me) She had a cool technique of pinning her photo's onto the white board and getting peoples opinion to pick the right image. After our college day was over I went out with Lawrence, Bridey and Amy for waffles and we ended up walking to the hoe for sunset and I had only been on the hoe once so it was pretty exciting for me! Anyway I ended up taking some cool photo's that I really liked.

Tuesday 24th November

Today I really enjoyed because we were let into the cove to work independently on our ideas for the square project and I took lots of pictures that I love for my final piece. I'm mainly think that the first picture below will be my final image!! In the afternoon we had a session with Cass, talking about what the concept of our ideas were etc..and then we had a session with Jen, in which we had to record ourselves reading our blogs to see if we had any spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes.

 

 

Monday 23rd November

Today we spent getting on with our own work, so in my case it was mainly editing photo's I had taken in the cove from last Tuesday. These photo's were for the square project that we were doing at the moment. We were also told that the deadline for this project was next Wednesday, however we didn't need to have our final images printed until a couple of days before the exhibition! Here are a few images that I took for my final piece and ended up playing around with, however I wasn't sure if I wanted to use them so I spoke to Chris and he told me that he liked the concept of the idea, however he was unsure on the lighting so he gave me the advice to re shoot tomorrow and compare the images.

 

Tuesday 17th November

Today we went into the darkroom and we were processing our film images that we had taken on the barbican a little while ago, unfortunately ours went missing so we used Amy's and Bridey's library film instead. I wrote down all of the "math stuff" to do with the darkroom which was how much developer, stop and fix that we needed.

.1 part developer + 9 parts water
.1 part stop + 19 parts water
.1 part fix + 14 parts water

In the afternoon we were allowed to just get on with what we needed to do e.g blogging, editing etc..for an hour or so and then we did a task with Jen on making surveys about our photo's.

 

 

At about 4pm me, Jordan, Lawrence, Amy, Sophie, Bridey and Ryan all left to go to the cove studio and take some photo's for our new project 'the square' I ended up taking some cool photo's, however im unsure whether to use them as my final piece for this project.

 

 

Monday 16th November

Today we were continuing the abstract task that we were doing last week, today was more on editing normal photo's into abstract looking photo's instead of more going out and taking abstract photo's. These are a few of the ones that I did.

 

In the afternoon we had a lesson on how to shoot and edit in raw properly, we then had to go through a step by step process on how Toby had edited his photo and re create it. We then had a session with Chris in which we had to show people the mood boards we had created and give our opinions on them.

 

 

 

Wednesday 11th November

Today we spent the day doing research for our new project "The square" I came up with a couple of ideas, but I think I mainly want to do a portraiture shoot. My idea is to get a few models and have a series of different words written on their heads e.g, "beautiful" "insecure" etc.. to show that everyone is beautiful in their own way however sometimes they can't see that they are.

 

 

My mood board

Tuesday 10th November

Today we went into the cove studio to try out doing product photography, we started off by doing a task where we had to remember things that we had been taught 3 weeks ago about the cove e.g health and safety etc..

We then went on to set up our area. We had to set up our tripods, camera's (iso, shutter speed etc..) and lights. We then were shown the difference between a standard lens and a macro lens to see how in depth you can get with a macro lens. We used the college camera's from stores and unfortunately our camera was given in and wiped before we could upload our photo's which was a shame but luckily I took some photo's on my own camera.

 

In the afternoon we had 2 sessions with Jen and Cass, in the first session we learnt all about how bias people can be in newspapers etc.. We had to look through newspapers and find articles with bias opinions, which was pretty interesting seeing how newspapers are very bias. In the second session we had to talk about things we had learnt over the past couple of months at college and talk about what we thought we were good and not good at.