Entry 19

Easter Break Thankfully


I will watch Dawn of Justice: Batman vs Superman during these 2 weeks and click some test shots.

My plan is to complete taking photographs my mid of next month so that I have time to make necessary changes post tutorials and also replace any photo if necessary.

Entry 18

• Presentation 4: Circulation & Authorship of the Photo-image:
Richard Hamilton, Michael Wolf, Julian Stallabrass & Analog to
digital: the Indexical Function of Photographic Images



In this presentation, it was debated into who owns the authorship of an image. Now days, we can see that a lot of artists use other artist’s work to create their own. So the question is, who is the author of the image that has been reused?

From what it was said, it’s okay if an artist take another artist work but use it in his own way transforming it into something new, something with different meaning of the prototype. In this case the author is the artist that used the image of the first artist.

When a work is created and given to the public, then the artist who produced it is only the creator but no longer the author. The author now is the public who can choose to do whatever they feel like with the work and there is not a whole lot the creator can do about it.


Circulation is when a certain photograph has been really successful and has thus been spread amongst a large number of people.

Here are some of the most circulated photo images in the last half decade or so-

1) This fascinatingly bizarre photograph garnered an even weirder amount of online attention, where it was featured in several conspiracy-oriented websites that claimed it was evidence of government manipulation of the weather.


2) The Nullarbor Cliffs literally feel like the end of the earth, though they are really just the end of Australia.


3) Dragon Falls, Venezuela




Some Glitch and databending I have done in Class

I did databending i.e converting the image to mp3 file and that file is enclosed in the pendrive as it can't be uploaded here.

Entry 17

What I think of the other projects

I loved the one where the theme was to click pictures of people travelling and how most dont interact with each other and are engrossed with their gadgets. Also the one focusing on the amalgamation of western and eastern cultures and how someone exists with both giving each equal importance.



Basic Photography by David Prackel


The reading for this week was more math stuff of photography.
Guide number = aperture x distance
To work out the aperture: measure the distance to the subject (use your lens scale). Divide the guide number by
this distance to get the f-stop. Guide number of 45 (GN) Flash to subject distance is 8m (FD) Aperture is unknown
(f) f = GN/FD 45/8 = f/5.6
To work out the flash distance: divide the guide number by working aperture to get the flash to subject distance.

Guide number of 45 (GN) Flash to subject distance is unknown (FD) Aperture is f/11 (f) FD = GN/f 45/11 = about 4m


This stuff will surely takes me weeks to figure out properly.


A major disadvantage of flasgun photography-
The vampire or ghost look
On-camera flash will produce the familiar ‘red-eye’ effect when the flashgun is close to the lens
axis (which it is with most compact cameras with built-in flash). Light from the flashgun enters
the eye and illuminates the blood in the retina, which is then photographed. ‘Red-eye
reduction’ is offered on most cameras with pop-up flash. This is usually a pre-flash (or flashes)
that closes the subject’s iris, but also tends to make them squint in the picture. On-camera

flash also produces a very flat frontal light, giving little or no modelling effect.

Entry 16

Presentation : Cultural imaginaries & landscape photography
Esteban Pastorino Diaz, Lauren Marsolier, Mishka Henner & Hall



Hah, finally my presentation. I misunderstood the date of the presentation and ended up going to the lesson having no idea that today was to be the day of the presentation. Was a big surprise for me. And a lack of communication in our group. In the end we had to make it in class hours which led to the fact that our group missed the flash photography session.  


Cultural imaginaries-
This is a theory derived by 2 different concepts. 
One of Halls culture definition and Benedicts idea of the imaginary.
Camacho explains that this is a notion upon which migrant communities imagine their own culture in a space that technically doesn’t belong to them. 


photographers create cultural imaginaries. It suggests that the photographer may look at a subject in a different way to another person therefore will reflect their perspective through their photograph. This then allows the viewer to see from their point of view.

Esteban Pastorino Diaz was the first photographer we researched. 
Some key points about him:-
-He was born in Buenos Aires, 1972
-focusing on ideas of challenging perspectives and perceptions of space
-Aerial perspective photographs, creating different perspective for viewer upon mundane landscapes.


Diaz creates cultural imaginaries through his use of model landscapes. By physically creating the landscape he is able to portray a more accurate portrayal of his perspective.

His photographs were so wonderful. When we first looked at Esteban Pastorino Díaz's Aerial series we quickly guessed that we were looking at a scale model set. There are scenes of what look like tract housing, views of dump trucks, airplanes, and trains. All these objects could be found in a child's toy box. But as we perused more of these photographs we noted that there is something awry. These are very complicated landscapes that lead to the conclusion that the scenes are real. For a moment we even thought of these settings to be toys or models of original things of some kinds. Upon further research we found out that the things we thought were toys were real and he photographed some of them from really high.

What seems like dolls in some sort of a clay modelled house are indeed real people if one looks closely. Diaz is an expert in using the depth of field aspect of photography.

If I were to use depth of field I would try to show mankind being larger than life thus in a way signifying them as powerful in their own right and that we dont need superheroes. Maybe I would need to employ low angle shots of people.


Landscape Photography


Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.

This method was originally used to denote the background of a subject.


Usually an absence of human presence is witnessed in such photographs.

Lauren Marsolier

She was born in France, 1972. Now works in Los Angles
These places have inspired her landscape photographs with modern architecture
simple , symmetrical, void and digital photographs
 “I became interested in how we perceive reality and how our times, marked by constant changes, affect us on a psychological level.”
famous work, Transition, represents the psychological experience
“Located somewhere between fiction and reality, her images represent a mental landscape affected by a world of constant change. They show an unreality become manifest, transitional non-places where human action and inhabitation are recorded in strange antitheses of nature and artifice, or, better still, artificial nature and natural artifice.”

This is how her work in Transition has been described.


Her work is an epitome of symmetry. Everything is in order and aligned. Makes the photographs look a lot neater.
I in my essay am trying to say how there is equilibrium in this world. There is good and bad. And the world is best as it is and doesnt need a superhero causing insane collateral damage which will create a disbalance in the force

Mishka Henner

-documentary photographer who has studied at Loughborough and worked at London for several years

-known for his contribution to the photography in the Internet and digital age

-ideas such as identity, the information age, exploitation

use the collection of public images from the internet, satellite and TV

-takes photos from Google Earth and finds images on Google Street View with use of image rich technologies.

-‘A new approach to photography is seeing the light - photographers without cameras. The need to press the shutter is replaced by a direct interest in images - not necessarily in making images. These photographers make books with photographs they find and sometimes they mix them with photographs they take. In this rising flock Mishka Henner is the trailblazer’.

I found this photographer to be the most interesting of the lot because of a project of his called 'No Man's land'

In this he employed google earth in certain regions of Spain to see the amount of prostitution going on in secluded areas. But he wasn't interested in groups of prostitutes, rather just the solitary ones. This work of his in my opinion was quite sensitive. It connotes that prostitutes are not viewed as a part of the society and they are secluded (denoted by him taking images of secluded areas).

ANALOG TO DIGITAL: THE INDEXICAL FUNCTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC

IMAGES

This reading is basically what we did in the seminar once. Changing an image to an mp3. I never knew this could be done. The very fact that images could possibly have some files related to sound is astonishing.

Digital technology allows for greater ease in editing than analog photography, because it

transforms photographs from objects into data. Digital imaging technology theoretically

disrupts previous notions of the indexical connection between photographic images and "reality."

Entry 15

Presentation on Gender, Gaze, otherness and photography


I missed this presentation sadly. Although I dont think this topic will help me much in my project as such because I wont separate superheroes based upon gender. Now, I researched a photographer who expertise's on this topic. Megan Magdalena Bourne.

This is what she says about what she does- Vancouver based photographer Megan Magdalena Bourne found herself interested in the different approaches to shooting men and women. “I was angry about having to censor my photos of women, and about gender in general. I was constantly getting my photos reported and deleted because they were ‘offensive’. So, I began recreating the photos I’ve had deleted from social media sites using boys.

Her work reminds me of what Sarah Maple does to an extent with females. Quite bold. Makes full use of what we know as the 'gaze'. More often it is the males with whom gaze is associated but in this instance due to fear from backlash, Magdalene used male models instead of female ones.

So whose gaze would these type of images attract? Female perhaps the homosexual man.




Almost the same thing by David Campany-
I am neither a collector or a photographer but I know that if a person really has a hobby or likes something and happens to be a photographer to he would definitely photograph them. Even if he weren't one he would click them. I think everyone does it. Someone might like clothes and click pictures of every piece of cloth she has bought.

Entry 14

Presentation on Vernacular Photography and reading on Hall


Vernacular photography is the creation of photographs, usually by amateur or unknown photographers both professional and amateur, who take everyday life and common things as subjects.

This presentation gave me information about something I had never heard of before. Also one of my fellow students has decided to work upon her photographic essay by using the theme of found photography and she showed us images of old photos she had found in some store.


Closely related to vernacular photography is "found photography," which in one sense refers to the recovery of a "lost," unclaimed, or discarded vernacular photograph or snapshot. Found photos can be found at flea markets, thrift stores, yard sales, estate sales, in dumpsters and trash cans, between the pages of books, or on sidewalks.




I loved the works of August Sanders. Firstly because they were Black and White mostly and also because of the way he portrayed his subjects in a serene and solitary manner. They are portrait photos yet they mean a lot as the Observer have noted- 

From a review in The Observer: ‘He experienced working difficulties in the thirties when the politics of nationality took over and he found himself on the wrong side of the fence with a considerable proportion of his sitters declared Untermenschen. But he perservered on the quiet, rounding out his dossier with schoolboy soldiers and an exquisitely groomed member of the Fuhrer’s SS Guard.’ He created a ‘whole national portrait gallery of urchins, eccentrics, cheats, peace-lovers, Bismarckian businessment, typists, celebrities, Professor Paul Hindemith, and ex-wife of Max Ernst....’ ‘The photographer keeps his distance, seems dispassionate, but you don’t have to be much of a Sherlock Holmes to read character and motive in the ways people presented themselves for his inspection.’

The last 4 lines sum it up.
This is one of Hitler's bodyguards in the image. He doesn't look too happy. rather I see a sense of obedience in his face. He has no emotions to the fact that he is being photographed. The obedience was a characteristic of a nazi soldier during the regime of Hitler.


I definitely dont think I will focus on any individual in my photographic essay so not much I can be inspired from his work.



Stuart Hall- The Spectacle of the Other


Heroes or villains?
 Here hall talks about the 100m Final in the 1988 Olympics.
The cover photo of the magazine is what he talks about. 5 black men who are the fastest in business competing each other. Ben Johnson wins but its found out that he had taken drugs and the Gold medal was subsequently awarded to the guy who came 2nd i.e another black guy.

This is exactly what i am trying to do. Not by being racist or anything but I can compare the sprinters with superheroes. Johnson was seen as a villain and Lewis as a hero. Likewise many people would see a batman as a hero but in my photographic essay I want to tell the aspects of a superhero which are bad and can harm mankind as we know it.

Superheroes destroy lots of property and lives unknowingly during their fights. Albeit in comics and films and I will assume that they would do the same if they existed in our world.

Entry 13

Depth of Field


Depth of field is the zone of acceptable sharpness within a photo that will appear in focus. In every picture there is a certain area of our image in front of, and behind the subject that will appear in focus.


This zone will vary from photo to photo. Some images may have very small zones of focus which is called shallow depth of field. Others may have a very large zone of focus which is called deep depth of field. Three main factors that will affect how you control the depth of field of your images are: aperture (f-stop), distance from the subject to the camera, and focal length of the lens on your camera.

This is the part with a lot of math involved which doesnt make much sense to me.

Depth of field impacts the background and foreground of an image. Making one clear and the other hazy or vice versa.

This image shows good use of depth of field to single out the can in the middle while blurring out the rest.

Berger's Way of Seeing- The way one sees things is affected by what one knows or believes in.

To quote him,- " The sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words or embrace can match."

Quite true if someone believes in love but nothing if someone doesnt. But the number of people who dont are very few. Love can go beyond just romantic love, it can be love for a place, a thing, an animal, a film, a belief. The film Interstellar by Christopher Nolan tells us how love transcends time and is omnipresent. 

Now I plan to work on my project in Brighton. I am quite sure many people love this city, some call it home but nevertheless it has given all of us a lot and I will try to show parts of this city in my photograph which will remind some people about their love and affection towards their city. Of course they have to be the favourite locations of people like the City Centre or Pier or Level.

My Attempts at creating images using doF-

I don't know what I ended up with but I wanted to focus the branches and blur the background.

Entry 12

Readings Continued



Organising space. Apparently this is a key aspect in the composition of a photograph. This reading was about the frame of a photograph and what it contains. Much like mise en scen of a play or a film scene.

This reading brings up certain challenges for me. I think it is difficult for beginners like me to accurately know how to place a subject in a frame. What should its size be and what should surround it. Symmetry is something which I think I can achieve though. 


Another thing this reading taught me is the importance of location of the subject in the frame with the example of the big orange circle in the black background. I will consider this for my project. The 4th image where the orange ball is in the top left and cropped signifies closure. I always had trouble wondering how to get closure in a photographic essay. Hopefully this knowledge will now help me out.

Entry 11

Some further Readings



Basics of Photography by David Prakel. This is a piece of reading which touches upon space, composition and applications of the composition in photographs.

Composing an image means arranging elements within it in a way that suits the core idea or goal of your work best. Arranging elements can be done by actually moving the objects or subjects. A good example for this case is portrait or still life photography. Street photography involves anticipation, since the photographer doesn’t usually have the choice of moving his subjects himself, but has to wait for them to take the most suitable position within the frame. Another way of arranging elements is by changing your own position. Such a way is appropriate in circumstances that do not allow the photographer to physically move anything, like landscape photography.


Composition is a way of guiding the viewer’s eye towards the most important elements of your work, sometimes – in a very specific order. A good composition can help make a masterpiece even out of the dullest objects and subjects in the plainest of environments. On the other hand, a bad composition can ruin a photograph completely, despite how interesting the subject may be.



Over these years I had a massive misconception regarding photography. I always assumed that a photographer has to take a photograph of something he thinks he sees thus in a way giving more importance to his interpretation. But Prakel says otherwise; he says that one must take a photograph of only something which that person sees and not what he thinks he sees.
This will help me in my project by giving my thoughts some clarity to produce simple images with clear meanings.

Entry 10

What is a photograph

A photograph or photo is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic medium such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see.

This is the technical definition of the term photograph.


My understanding is that a photograph is an image of something the photographer likes or thinks makes a certain meaning. Of course light falls and stuff but the key aspect is the thoughts in the mind of a photographer. A photograph is a series of thoughts or ideas. That is what can make a photograph potentially so powerful because ideas are powerful.



Now, having read John Ingledon's 'Photography' I have realised that photography can be seen as a weapon for the masses. Anyone can take photographs and signify something with it. Public opinion can be changes, masses can be swayed, war can become peace over one photograph. A photograph can unite the world for an agenda. It can say so many things. For example this photograph is taken from the aftermath of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in my country India. The next day this photograph made the front page of every newspaper. 
This photograph was nothing special in its technique or skill of the photographer but instead it has one of the most moving images in the history of photography. Something which can melt even a heart made of rock.

I would definitely love to take an image or two which is very moving. Something which will make the audience see themselves as a part of my photos. Where they can identify with the people in my photos.

An infant's face. A person's hand trying to cover it with mud/soil as is the custom in hinduism. This one photograph is enough for people to know how severe the gas tragedy in bhopal was, what the people of the city lost and are still losing years later. This image stirred the nation and world at large. Help came swiftly from all corners. People shuddered upon seeing it. It could happen to any city, affect anyone, anyday. This factor of unpredictability is something I wish to include in my photos to make the audience identify with the photos.

Entry 9

Sarah Maple


I was asked to look upon the works of this particular photographer/visual artist as it might help in my research. So I did.



Sarah describes herself as, “an artist, feminist, activist”. Exploring cultural issues that has experienced growing up as a Muslim in the south of England, her art is related to gender, sexuality and religion with a hint of provocation and a huge sense of humor. Her work represents an identity quest for a young British Muslim growing in a mixed family with very few fellow Muslims around, except in her own family. Her work explores complex issues in a comical and light-hearted manner which appeals to a large audience. She definitely did not appear to be muslim to me after seeing her works so that part came quite as a shock to me as I have always known Muslims to be very conservative especially the females.


I definitely don't think I can take inspiration of any kind from her work as it is simply too bold and provocative. For a project for first year it's best to keep things simple. 

There are certain images where she cos-plays as fairytale princesses and perhaps that is the only aspect I can take help from maybe by asking someone to dress up as a superhero.

Entry 8

Playing with Photoshop in seminar one day got me to do this. I had just seen this film and loved it and also done a presentation on it in Debates in Media Studies. I like to rotate around similar topics and themes for all my modules. Keeps it compact.

Now, this is a very sad and touching film but it's main poster at the same time was very bright and colourful so I took it and changed it to this version. Not much I had to do actually but what I was really trying to do was to see what I could interpret from a black and white photograph of this style having already seen the film.
Maybe this style echoes what goes on throughout most of the film but the ending is a soothing one and perhaps that is what the colour poster is for; to signify that every sad story need not end in a sad way.

I did this because I wanted to take all black and white photographs with a silhouette of red in each of them (the red being taken from Superman's symbol which stands for hope).


This is the effect I wanted to bring out in each photo with the focal point in red and it's surrounding in black and white. This is of course one of the 3-4 scenes in Schindler's List which had colour in the otherwise Black and White Film

Why this Effect? In the film Schindler's List this effect is used to signify loss of life. Millions of people were killed by the nazis. In this frame our attention first goes to the girl but we are looking through the eyes of the protagonist  Oskar Schindler in this film. He sees this girl and is moved by her plight. Schindler´s soul is touched by the child, he feels her pain, cries for her. The plight of the one little girl in red touches him in a way the shear numbers make unreal, it is easy to get lost in numbers. He transforms the faceless mass around him into one real palpable human being. This one child is a symbol of all the 6.000.000 victims, exposed to ruthless slaughter. Each was an individual, who had dreams, who had a life, who had a family. Similarly I wish to have the focal point of my image in red for it to stand out and signify hope. Hope because mankind is not alone, we have each other for us; we don't need a superhero to ruin the equilibrium that we possess.

Entry 7

My Project & What Inspired Me


I had two ideas for the pitch presentation. Actually I had three but I presented just two because I wasn't sure If I at all would be able to do the third. I will discuss about the 3rd one in the end of this entry.

First Idea-

Do we need a superhero?
Inspiration- the upcoming Batman vs Superman film. One of the main themes of the film is whether earth will be a better place without Superman and how Batman appoints himself to get rid of Superman which he can’t.

My Location- Entire Brighton

Theme- No we don't need a superhero

My Argument:- Instead I will be aiming to show how mankind lives and grows by helping one another. The various organisations like Police, Firefighters, authorities of institutes and maybe even the people who keep the city clean. Such individuals or groups represent or are identified as superheroes by the mass. 

Conclusion- There are both good and bad(natural/man-caused) elements in this world and hence there is an equilibrium in this society. A presence of a superhero will definitely create an imbalance.

Will need a lot of luck to get proper photos.

Second Idea-

Homelessness

Inspiration- Dozens of homeless people I see in the city.

Location- Brighton. Preferably in and around the City Centre.

Theme- Presence of a certain kind of happiness amongst a few of such people despite a lack of shelter and/or extreme poverty. There are some who are not displeased or discouraged even if they are refused any alms. There are several people who pass by them on a daily basis. The ones who are helpful are of course shown gratitude but the ones who do not give anything are still greeted. Everyday you go to that spot you will see the people there. This makes me feel that they are not afraid or ashamed and above all not given up hope.

Argument- Happiness can be found despite the lack of incentives or materialistic gains. There are people who literally chat with them for a long time.

Conclusion- Happiness gives you hope which in turn helps you survive.

Feedback i got from the group-

All of them were of the opinion that I do the superhero one and that is what I wanted to do as well. They said that the homelessness one has been touched upon several times by several people and is too cliched as a title of a project now. Also they said that the superhero one is exciting and would be a challenging aspect for me.

The third idea which I had-

This would have been a photographic essay of 'Water'.

Essentially the water cycle as in the way water keeps changing forms and it's method of availability to us. I would have also included 2-3 photographs about how water is wasted by us. I think this might have been a bit monotonous as every photograph would have had water in some form. It may have been visually pleasing if photographed correctly but nothing of much interest to the audience as they are well and aware if this cycle and the role water plays in our lives.

What inspired me?

Now, I basically live off cinema so I try to make it a point that as far as I can every project of mine is related to a certain film. During the time I had to make the pitch the film 'Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice' was a few days from release. 
This particular trailer(link below) of the film was my stepping stone for the project. In the trailer we see how Superman is questioned. His powers are questioned. Mankind wonders to what extent can Superman be trusted when he has already caused for so much destruction from his previous fights with the villains. He is a man who can wipe out the planet in seconds. Is there really a place for him on Earth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWzgGyAH6Y



I also hope to get more ideas and perhaps different views from the film itself so I will watch it as soon as I can. On a personal note, I would love if there were superheroes on this planet. Mainly because I see them as a symbol of hope and at some point of our lives we all need hope.

Entry 6

Photoshop Workshop


I have had prior experience with photoshop and find it quite interesting and easier compared to Indesign and Illustrator.

So, we were given a task where we were to create an imaginary landscape using photoshop. The technique was to merge 2 layers together.

So this is what I did-

These are the 2 photographs of landscapes which i had decided to use to make an imaginary landscape.

Entry 5

Flash and Light Photography

I had heard that this technique of photography is quite difficult and needs immense practise and also there seems to be a lot of math involved with this technique like the inverse square law. Then there is the aperture which is equal to f/number. While I haven't understood much of this I have understood that flash is used to illuminate a dark scene or to capture a moving object like a person walking or a car.

I don't think I will be employing this technique because we are supposed to take 6--8 photos and place them in a sequence and I think the sequencing takes away the need of clicking a series of photos of a moving object. As far as the light goes I plan to take my pictures in broad daylight without any overcast conditions and also in open areas. So I don't really think that I would be needing flash photography.

I think flash photography has drawbacks and most of it is attributed to the fact that it is tough. More often than not we see a section of the photograph as a bright white i.e it is merely reflecting back the light of the flash gun.

Entry 4

Rule of thirds

Also the rule of thumb. I had never come across this term before during any media lesson. What I understood from it is that when dividing a photograph into 9 equal squares with 4 intersecting line the important compositional feature of the photograph should lie on those intersections. This is because that's where the eye first looks at. This feature supposedly creates more tension and interest rather than simply placing an object in the centre of a frame.

For example, this image perfectly demonstrates this rule. The first thing in the image which comes to our notice in it is the light house as it is aligned upon the intersection of the lines. It also helps the cause that the rest of the image is isolated. However if there were to be another lighthouse on the left side intersection then both the lighthouses would come to our notice.

How do I intend to use this feature on my project?

I find the city of Brighton quite symmetrical like most cities in this country so aligning something basing upon the rule of thirds will not be difficult and to maintain an interest in my photographic essay i definitely will employ this rule in the photographs.

Entry 3

Composition and Reading a Photograph

I quite enjoyed this seminar because it allowed me to be creative theoretically, something I quite relish. Seeing photographs and understanding what they mean or what they are supposed to mean. It also teaches one to know how to insert contextual meaning in photographs. Of course different people will interpret a photograph differently and more often than not several interpretations can apply for a photograph.

How will I look to use contextual meaning in my photographs?
Individually my photos will probably mean something far from what my theme would be but as a collection or a series of 6-8 photographs in a correct sequence they will tell something. For example a pair of shoes lying on the floor could potentially mean many things or nothing but when a photograph of a person getting ready for work precedes it the shoe will signify that it is his next step in getting ready.

Photography is never neutral. I learnt this from the seminar. Why? This is because every photographer or producer will have a certain set of ideas or beliefs upon which the photograph would be taken.


Important aspects to analyse while reading a photograph as far as I have understood are
1. What is the focal point of the photo
2. Where is the photograph set i.e location
3. When was the photograph taken
4. Composition of the photograph


I remember being shown a photograph in the seminar; one where a small boat/log is floating in a lake which is surrounded by large mountains. The lake is also shown to be reflecting the mountains making a 'v' shape. While the boat/log was really small, it wasn't insignificant rather it was the focal point of the photograph. It can be inferred that size does not count for relevancy. 

Entry 2

Understanding of the Project

A photographic essay is what we are supposed to hand in this term. While it seems to be an easy task upon reading the description it definitely won't be one. I have inferred that I will have to be creative with both the topic as well as the photographs that I click. Depicting representation, identity and also considering the importance of cultural, social or political position will be challenging to accommodate in 6 to 8 photographs. 

I feel that it is a good idea to disallow basing the project withing the campus. While it is less strenuous to click photographs or find plenty of resources on campus it also limits our ability to work hard and find what we need in a difficult way. For example last term our group in video made a documentary on waste products and we found most of our shots on campus and didn't have to venture out a lot.

As of now I do not have any topics in mind but I would love to base it on something I enjoy e.g cinema.
 

Entry 1

USAGE OF THE SLR CAMERA

We were given to use the D7000s and this was to be the equipment we were going to use this term. I was familiar with this instrument as I had used it in video last term for principal photography and also last year in foundation. However one of the things I learnt from the seminar was the importance of exposure in photography. The more the light we allow to enter the image sensor the more we expose a photograph.

Shutter speed involved some math so it was a little hard to grasp at first.

The 'f' signifies the depth of field which is the distance between the nearest and furthest objects.

Our group was assigned to the 3rd presentation and the photographers we are to research and present on are Mishka Henner, Esteban Pastorino Diaz, Lauren Marsolier and Hall.