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.

Monday 9th November

Today we started off with contextual studies with Chris and Catherine, they were showing us abstract art and photography. We were showed work by people such as Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Fritz Lang, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz and Alexander Rodchenko.

 

 

 

 

We were then set the task to go out and take our own abstract photo's, which was cool.

 

 

 

Here's one of the pictures that I took, It's not very abstract but I thought that the graffiti on a white wall looked quite cool and simple, which is abstract in a way.

In the afternoon, we then did film developing, which was really fun!! I unfortunately was so wrapped up in getting the film done that I didn't get around to taking any photo's of the process.

Bob Mazzer

The other day I had a notification on Facebook saying I had been tagged in a post by Jordan, I clicked on the notification and to my surprise it was a guy's Facebook album that he had put on of his photographs of how he had taken photo's of people on the tube for 40 years. I had a look through the pictures and absolutely fell in love with them, I just love the way they're taken. So in the moment and natural, and it shows how wacky some people in the world are!

 

Jack Garofalo

I was just searching around for street photography when I came across this photographer called 'Jack Garofalo' who was one of the leading photographers for Paris Match magazine. He spent six weeks in Harlem, New York, in the summer of 1970 and his images were the cover story of Match in October that year. In the 1960s, large numbers of residents left Harlem for neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, seeking better schools, improved housing and a stronger sense of safety. Left in Harlem were the people who couldn't afford to or chose not to move. I really like these photo's because they're quite old looking and you can see he captured them right in the moment.

 

 

The Library pt 2

Tuesday 3rd November



 

Today was the second day of the Library project, we were all allowed to wonder back over to the library and take some more cool pictures for the project. We started off just in the library but Cass then told us about a building across the road that was part of the library but the public don't go into. It was like a store room downstairs and then on the second floor it was like a church. It was absolutely beautiful, stain glass windows, old books in boxes covered in dust, it just looked like something you'd see in a film. I really enjoyed going up there. Although im not extremely happy with the photo's I took there, I was still happy to have the experience of going to a place like that and being able to take photo's.

 

 

 (all photos are unedited)