Week 10 – Architectual Images
In our tenth photography workshop, we were tasked with taking pictures of the architecture around the university campus, making use of the natural daylight. However, I did not save these photos, so I decided to take a camera back home with me and photograph some of the architecture in my home town. I took the photos in the town centre as there are many old buildings that make for interesting photos and provide a historical context. Of all of the photos these 3 are my favourites. By bumping up the saturation and vibrancy of the sky, I was able to make these eye catching colours that contrast with the dullness of the old architecture of the buildings. In the bottom two photos, more editing was require in order to remove other buildings in the composition that were very displeasing and distracted the attention from the key subject.
Week 9 – An Attempt At Exhausting A Location In Lincoln
In our week 9 seminar, we looked at an article written by Georges Perrec, where he attempted to exhaust a space in Paris of every detail he could see around him.
Our task was to go out and do the exact same thing with a location in Lincoln. This is an extract of my attempt of exhausting a location in Lincoln:
A wide murky body of water running gently beneath a Victorian era building, which arches at the bottom. There are rails either side of the river, black in colour and built upon a stone banking. The banking is old, you can tell from the plant life and moss growing between the cracks. There are two paths and two sets of stairs that run along either side of the river. Both sets of steps go up through narrow alleyways. The river and Victorian building are enclosed by various tall buildings, which are tightly packed around each other. the area is sparsely populated with people. groups of 2 or 3 will pass by now and then or the odd individual. There are two artificial lighting sources, old black lampposts. For some reason, one of these lights is on during the day…
Week 8 – No Task Set
In the eighth week of photography, there was no task set, so I utilized this time by focusing on my Found Object work.
Week 7 – The Portrait Workshop
In our seventh week of photography, we focused again on portraiture, by taking advantage of the natural light from outside we experimented with images using a reflector to manipulate the light around the subject.
In this photo, the natural light enters the frame from the left, lighting up the right side of the subjects face. This left the other half considerably darker and flat, until we incorporated the the reflector into manipulating the light, in order to illuminate the darker half of his face. Some detail in this photo is lost however due to slight over exposure, particularly on his left side of his jaw, as we can not see his jawline meet up with his ear.
With this photo, we didn’t make use of the reflector, particularly because it was only the one half of the face that was covered, meaning the natural light worked well enough to create this photograph.
