After discussion with my tutor, Shot framing and timing. My shots are all candid, as in they are not posed, and this has raised some small issues in terms of framing and timing. I had thought to ‘let myself off the hook’ with this because of the candid nature of the shots. But since completing this assignment I […]
Category: Part 3
Assignment 3: Post Submission Reflection
Technical and Visual This was a challenging assignment due to current circumstances. Technically, I should not have been out taking pictures and so I could only do so in conjunction with other trips out, no small reason as to why therefore that shopping played its part in the assignment. That said, this is fine as shopping is […]
Assignment 3: Draft Submission
Introduction This assignment is produced during the COVID-19 isolation and lockdown measures of 2020. In one regard this meant that I was limited on what or who I could gain access to; during this time, one is not allowed out of the house except for work if not possible from home, shopping, or exercise. From a […]
Exercise 3.4: The Gaze
Exercise Produce a series of five portraits that use some of the types of gaze defined above. Outcome I have reinterpreted this exercise slightly. Whilst at the National Portrait Gallery recently, I came across a picture of Kate Moss by Corrine Day (see fig. 1). What struck me about this picture is that the different poses […]
Photographer: Stephen Gill
Stephen Gill, born 1971 (Stephen Gill (photographer), n.d.), has produced a series of collections that are predominantly inspired by living in East London. Many of his images are of everyday scenes that one might walk past and never take the time to stop and study them. An example might be one shown below in Fig. […]
Exercise 3.3: Portraying under-represented groups
This piece reflects on how marginalised or underrepresented groups could be badly portrayed and how being an insider might help combat this. For the exercise I thought about the homeless people and in particular a group that is supported by a charity that one of my daughters works for – they deal with those who have […]
Exercise 3.2: Personality
Make a list of some aspects of your personality that make you unique. Start taking a few pictures that could begin to express this. How could you develop this into a body of work? This exercise is being done during the times of COVID-19 and the constraints that this places on being outdoors – namely […]
Photographer: Nial McDiarmid
Background I researched Niall McDiarmid after he was suggested to me by my tutor after Assignment 2. In my Assignment 2 Reflection, I had made a bit of a throw away remark that I had chosen black and white presentation of my images because I wanted to position my images in the street photography domain, […]
Exercise 3.1: Mirrors and Windows
In this exercise I had to select around 10 pictures from my archive and separate them into two piles, one for mirror and one for window. For the purposes of this exercise, the terms used and interpreted from my perspective; meaning that a mirror for me may well be a window for somebody else. Mirror […]