This project is a little more involved than the previous ones, in that you have more topics to choose from and it asks you to produce a documentary-style selection of four photographs. Photograph: The Built Environment From sleek commercial districts to out of town shopping areas and forlorn precincts that have seen better days the … Continue reading Photo Project
Category: 2019
Out damn spot! Out!
A couple of weeks ago when I was looking through the images that I had just taken on my X-pro2, I noticed that I had some spots on the sensor. I used a rocket blower to see if they were just dust, but they weren’t. Those of you who have been reading this blog for … Continue reading Out damn spot! Out!
Monochrome or bust
I’ve always loved monochrome photography. From the time I was at university developing and printing my own films in the cavernous dark rooms under the building up to now with digital cameras and processing. Of course, I have always done some colour images. In the eighties, it was transparencies with Fujichrome, but even then I … Continue reading Monochrome or bust
Associate of the Royal Photographic Society
As a member of the Royal Photographic Society, I have already been awarded the Licentiate distinction for a panel of 10 images that I submitted in 2016. Since then I had been working towards the Associate award of the society. For this, fifteen images had to be produced within a cohesive piece of work and … Continue reading Associate of the Royal Photographic Society
Photo Project
Photograph: FOUND STILL LIFE You are to find a still life composition whereby all the components are already placed in position. A found still-life can be made of anything. It may be a room, it can be a single object small or large, it can be made of many small or large objects. You … Continue reading Photo Project
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Photograph: Architecture Unlike most specialised areas of photography, there are few tricks or special equipment required for shooting architecture – only careful planning and an open mind. Your shooting position, the time of day, the colour and direction of light all have a profound result on the final image and it pays to shoot from … Continue reading Photo Project
The Americans by Robert Frank
In 1955 Robert Frank started a year-long journey across the USA with the intention of photographing America. He ended up taking 27,000 photographs which he would eventually edit down to 83 images that would fill his monograph, “The Americans”. Surprisingly the volume was published in France first in 1958 and then in the U.S. in … Continue reading The Americans by Robert Frank
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Photograph: A flower or flowers Brief: Your project this month is to take a photograph of a flower or flowers. Whilst the weather should be getting warmer this image is to be taken indoors. You should take advantage of the wonderful soft light that windows can give an image. One way of doing this … Continue reading Photo Project
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Photograph: FENCE / FENCES Brief: Sometimes fences are wrought iron, sometimes they’re wooden, and sometimes they’re barbed wire. For this project, take two photographs of two different types of fence and show in each case what purpose this fence is serving – what is it partitioning off from the surrounding area? When you are … Continue reading Photo Project
From a photographer’s point of view
Not being one, I have always admired talented street photographers. Their tenacity, skill and endurance to trudge through the streets to get those brilliant images that enthral, inspire and delight us never ceases to amaze me. One of the best is Nick Turpin, the founder of iN-PUBLiC the street photography collective and an exhibited photographer … Continue reading From a photographer’s point of view
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