I chose "Photographing the Unseen" and whilst reading and working through some of the exercises I was really struggling with ideas so I still had "Using Props" in the back of my head. On a number of occasions, I took my camera out with me just to take general photos, and practice street photography, hoping …
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When I saw this exercise, my heart sank a little. I don't know any poetry and have not looked at any since school, which unfortunately was some time ago. When I had a cold this month, I'm not sure why, but a poem formulated in my head when I was feeling sorry for myself. In …
I don't usually buy papers as I'm not really a fan of the spin they like to bring to things as their positions are always relatively clear are very far from non-biased but I picked up a copy of The guardian steering clear of publications like The Sun or The Daily Mail. Choosing images was …
Nanjing II (Metal Palm), Jiangsu Province, 2007 ©Nav Kander Nav Kander - The Long River When I started looking through the images of Nav Kander's The Long River the first thing that hit me was the haze featured throughout. I initially put this down to air pollution that I have heard is pretty bad. Reading …
Had my first conversation with tutor which I was very nervous about and as he started talking I was a bit concerned when he started saying "When he sees images of graffiti his heart often sinks". Fortunately, he finished that sentence on a very positive note advising that the reason his heard can sink is …
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Exercise 1 poses two questions: How does Bryony Campbell’s The Dad Project compare with Country Doctor? What do you think she means by ‘an ending without an ending’? In true "Luke" style I managed to look through Bryony Campbell's "The Dad Project" before looking through Smith's "Country Doctor". I also, for whatever reason started about 3/4 way through …
My goal with this piece was to highlight Graffiti and Street Art in Brighton in two distinct ways. Firstly, to represent it as a nuisance, something that is not wanted and is being actively fought against. Secondly, as a genuine art form and something that improves the areas it exists within, something worth documenting as …
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I enjoyed the work running up to the assignment, however, I had felt a little cooped up with the work feeling very research-based in comparison to many of the exercises in Expressing your Vision. However, despite raring to get out and use my camera I really struggled to come up with ideas for the assignment. …
I discussed Martha Cooper earlier when it came to looking at colour or black & white work https://luke523038.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/contemporary-street-photography-bw-or-colour/ positing that black & white was not suitable for the work she is most well known for which is her documenting of graffiti and street art, something she also touched upon. In a subsequent look through this …
Instead of using double exposures or printing from double negatives we now have the technology available to us to make these changes in post-production, allowing for quite astonishing results. Use digital software such as Photoshop to create a composite image which visually appears to be a documentary photograph but which could never actually be. To …
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