tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38805846623989352432024-02-20T16:27:27.240-08:00Foray into PhotographyJan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-78234353569312756452016-10-11T06:00:00.003-07:002016-10-11T06:00:59.575-07:00And Finally.........wanders in...blows off dust n cobwebs...Hellooooo <br />
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come follow :o)<br /><br /><a href="https://janfairburn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jan's Foray into Documentary</a>Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-20434027273061685102014-06-07T01:25:00.000-07:002014-06-07T01:25:14.936-07:00Awaiting Formal Assessment - Last PostNote for readers<br />
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If you are on this page this will be my last post before assessment. Any exhibitions visited or observations recently made will be saved for another time.<br />
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Thank you for following my journey thus far, as well as helping me gather my thoughts and present my learning I hope that this blog has been informative for those observing my ramblings, even if on what NOT to do!<br />
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Thank you to those who took time to comment either on the blog directly, through flickr or via email. Your feedback, peer assessments and morale boosters were gratefully received, and very helpful. It was a struggle in places but I got here in the end and hopefully after a short break (stupidly I am sitting my GCSE Maths exam in June) I shall decide what to do next.<br />
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Thank you to both tutors who got me through PwDP and those tutors who organised and led many of the useful study visits, which I loved.<br />
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Going forward with my studies I recognise that I need to continue learning about flash and artificial light (got the book need to read it and carry out some of the exercises) print more of my work and explore commercial printing further. I shall continue looking at other practitioners and genres, read more of the theory/essays that are out there.<br />
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For me learning is best through VAK experiences, watching videos, going to exhibitions, physically flicking through, and being able to annotate books is really helpful. There is no comparison to seeing work in real life, how it is presented and the clarity of the prints. Seeing a whole body of work tells a much better narrative than a snapshot and is presented in the way that it should be viewed in order to gain maximum impact. I feel I have gained from attending several artists talk, even if I didn't agree with everything they said. Getting hands on practice or watching people demonstrate techniques, either with the camera or post-processing is better than reading an over technical tome. Thank you YouTube!<br />
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Working independently and discovering through error is par for the course but I love the human interaction with my fellow students. Study days are invaluable to not only swap ideas but to know others are out there. Looking at other students work inspires me, makes me realise the standard I should be aiming for, how I can challenge myself and introduces me to other practitioners/approaches I may not otherwise have considered. Peer critique assists with confirming I am on the right path or helps me onto the right path. Thank you again to those who give me feedback and ideas.<br />
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Thinking about doing documentary next I shall look closely at the different ways this genre can be approached. Hopefully know myself as a photographer a little more.<br />
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Note for Assessors<br />
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Welcome to my online Blog. On the right-hand side there are pages which contain links to all the original assignments, feedback and reworkings, tutor reports, inspirational books/resources and exhibitions visited.<br />
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Relevant labels are also to be found to the right, should you wish clarification on thought processes and research undertaken.<br />
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A web slideshow of images only can be found <a href="http://jfocaphotography.weebly.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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Having confirmed that I am going to have my work formally assessed the final task was reviewing and reworking previous assignments and preparing for assessment. Those of you following my blog know that where necessary I have overhauled and reworked troublesome assignments! So much so I don't really want to look at them anymore :oP Hopefully I have responded to all feedback given and reflected about the processes on this blog and in my learning log.<br />
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So just how am I going to put together my assessment portfolio?<br />
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For assessment I need to send the reworked versions of all five assignments together with the original Assignments Two-Five. Glad about that as Assignment One original feedback was pretty pants! My tutor reports and learning log (s) also need to be included. Previously I had to send all tutor correspondence but this module doesn't seem to ask for that. However as some of my alterations and learning came about through this correspondence I shall also include a folder which can be looked at or disregarded as the assessors see fit. Link to my Blog will be sent as well as my learning logs, sample prints from each assignment, mock-up book, folders with documentation to support the assignments, flash drive with all assignment jpegs and anything else I think needs to be sent as a digital file.<br />
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I spoke to my tutor for a while to clarify some points, we discussed the importance of labelling everything, packaging it well, inclusion of sample prints, importance of communication, anything in my learning log should be annotated as to why it was included, what did I like, how did it influence me? What did I learn from it? Ensure labels were on Blog posts, that my Blog was easy to navigate etc. I asked Keith if he would review my reworked assignment one seeing as it was a completely different project from the first rather than a tweaking to feedback, He kindly agreed and feedback has been added to the relevant blog posts and tutor feedback page, but in summary I was a happy bunny. Thank you Keith :o)<br />
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That all done and sorted, hopefully, the time has come (The Walrus said) to print things out, label it up, post it off and suffer until the results come out.....<br />
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Sounds quite simple! However in practice it doesn't always run as smoothly or as quickly as you anticipate. Some of my prints I had no issue with at all. I accept that what you see on screen will not be precisely what comes out but the majority of mine did. Soft proofing also seemed different from image to image. Some the colours/density did alter, other changed totally. I noticed this particularly with the Abstract Bokeh and the Nigella, even though I compensated for this, both were quite flat, the images were dark and the colours a bit off. Luckily I was only printing these on A4 so experimented with brightness/vibrance and printed a few off until they were more representative. The blue especially in the Nigella was profoundly purple, even now it isn't spot on colour wise but is the best I can do with my set up and printing budget :o/</div>
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The other issue I had was printing full bleed/ borderless. My assignment 3, a photographic commission - the magazine spread - was designed to be printed full bleed but when printing some of the spread was outside of the printing area, I expected this to occur slightly, and although I printed a few draft versions I could not get the sizing right. Ordinarily I guess it would not have been as noticeable if a few mm were off at the edge but on the third spread I had 3 square photographs next to each other and it was very obvious that the end one was badly cropped. I eventually had to settle for printing with a border. A slight compromise but I have at least learnt that either my printer will not satisfactorily produce full bleed or I need to find out how to do it. Most obvious choice would appear to be buying larger paper, for example A3 Plus, and trim. (awaiting A3 Plus paper to arrive, if it comes in time I shall re-print and trim. Should I wish to print full bleed at any time in the future I'd probably approach a commercial printer.<br />
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I bought some larger A3 Plus paper and trimmed to size. The bonus is that you can see how it was designed to look, the downside is that in trimming the excess there isn't a border to hold for viewing, as in leaving one meant it would not fit into my Seawhite box. If I had thought about this in advance I could have bought an A3 plus archival box, which would have allowed for crop marks/ cutting lines to be left in and provide a border.<br />
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Below are 3 incarnations of the prints, the first set was a draft on ordinary paper, just to check the layout worked, and before I altered all the final images, the middle set were prints on A3 paper, with a small white margin, and the final set on A3 plus and trimmed.<br />
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Investigating other avenues to present work came across Moo <a href="http://uk.moo.com/" target="_blank">http://uk.moo.com/</a><u> </u>and I am thinking about printing some postcards if I can understand how to use the website ;oD<br />
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Seawhite A3 archival presentation box.<br />
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<b><br /></b>So here it all is after all those hours of work....if I haven't done it now only a few days to tweak before I need to parcel it up and post!<br />
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*update<br />
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I ordered some postcards from Moo<br />
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Several points to make. Their service is fantastic. Helpful on the phone when I wasn't sure what I was doing and very prompt delivery. The standard of card and finish is excellent. As they point out colours are not always 100% accurate but as a first attempt at this I was fairly pleased with the results. What would I alter? The most obvious thing I would do is definitely sharpen the images more prior to uploading. What looked fine when I previewed them has actually come out on the soft side. I'd also lighten them just a tad and make the colours more punchy. Having said that I was really pleased to hold something physically in my hand that I had made....does that sound daft?Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-37615013258858243892014-05-20T11:40:00.000-07:002014-05-28T16:30:08.993-07:00Assignment One Your Own Neighbourhood Reworked<b>Thoughts</b><br />
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Apart from haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I got here!<br />
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I think this has been one of the hardest assignments in the end. Probably say that about each one, but this I have struggled with. Was it due to the brief being as loose as it was? Who knows. Contemplating the issue, part of the problem could be that I don't really connect to where I live. Originally from Surrey I moved to Kent when I married, worked and commuted for a lot of the early years and didn't get imbued with the area, kids came along so I got to know the parks, the schools, the swimming pool. Nothing that I became deeply emotionally attached to and I do think my images are better when there is a personal connection.<br />
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Feedback from my original submission was honest, even though I think in some areas too blunt, however no-one likes being told their work isn't up to scratch so maybe it wasn't... The course was brand new when I came to it, neither my tutor nor I had seen it before, the version my tutor was sent was slightly more up to date than the version I had, which also caused confusion. Mine said I could send prints, his said nothing about this, so when I sent prints he disregarded them. "Progressing with the digital side was the important factor" so nothing was to be printed out at all...... I was asked to send original unedited files, I did and was asked why had I sent images with dust spots on, such a basic beginners error? But surely that was sending original unedited unmanipulated files? <scratches head> Added to this I sent a disc with descriptive documentation on, possibly not as in-depth as they should have been but my tutor said it was not in the package received. It never turned up in my house so who knows where that went, but something else mentioned that I had failed to do which I am 100% sure I did.<shrugs><br />
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Some of my comments were "bland and generic" which looking back I think they were and hopefully now I expand upon each decision made, why they were made and which practitioner informed my choices and why. During the period of time I had to shoot we had dull overcast weather, day in day out, being at work I was also limited to set times, therefore the quality of light suffered, I mentioned this briefly but not in enough depth and was told therefore all I had was "a series of poor photos" oddly the final summary said it was a "reasonable assignment" which seemed at odds with the amount of negative sounding constructive criticism. Re-working was put on hold due to consistently poor weather and I pushed on with the other assignments, then my mother fell ill. Her subsequent diagnosis of bowel cancer, operation, decline and eventual death impacted on completing the entire course and my attitude to what was important in life. Now everything else is eventually completed and gearing up for July assessment the demon had to be faced, deciding I hated everything about the original I scrapped it and started again!<br />
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<b>My Own Neighbourhood</b> - Welling, Kent<br />
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A bit of background information...<br />
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Welling - often thought to be corruption of 'Well end', so called after the safe arrival there having passed the dreaded Shooters Hill (a dirt track running through ancient woodland and full of highwaymen) but more likely from Old English "Wella" or "Welwyn" meaning the place of a well or spring - is in the London Borough of Bexley.<br />
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It originally formed part of the ancient manor of East Wickham mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086). East Wickham was included as part of the return for Plumstead. Much of the history of this area is tied up with the manor of Danson, now shrunk to Danson Park which still incorporates Danson House, recently refurbished by English Heritage.<br />
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Formerly known as the Dover Road the A2 is a major road in southern England, connecting London with the English Channel port of Dover in Kent. This route has always been of importance as a connection between the British capital of London and sea trade routes to Continental Europe. Starting at Borough in Central London, at this point is named Great Dover Street, the A2 heads along Old Kent Road towards New Cross continuing east through Deptford and Blackheath until it arrives at Shooter's Hill. A modern dual carriageway by-passes the towns now, but the original road continues to run in a straight line, changing it's name to Bellegrove Road, Welling High Street, Crook Log, Bexleyheath Broadway and finally Watling Street.The growth of the area was linked to Watling Street, the Roman road from London to Dover, and the trade that could be had from the travellers who used it. Although some of it now forms part of the modern A2 most has been replaced by dual carriageway.<br />
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Nowadays Welling is predominantly a residential suburb, with vast areas of 1930's housing but Bexley is one of the greenest boroughs in London. Oxleas Wood (which is mainly in Greenwich but crosses into Bexley) is one of the few remaining areas of ancient deciduous forest in southeast London. Some parts date back over 8,000 years to the last Ice Age. It is part of a larger continuous area of woodland and parkland on the south side of Shooter's Hill. In the early 1990's there was threat to this woodland from the East London River crossing when there was a proposal to destroy parts of it to make way for approach roads, campaigns to prevent this were successful. This river crossing, had it been built, would have caused much heavier traffic to flow through my immediate vicinity.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnplus.co.uk/news/21jan93-uk-direct-action-threat-over-elric-plan-threat-to-oxleas-wood/999720.article#.U3sSL_ldUsY" target="_blank">Oxleas Threat</a><br />
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Bearing all of this is mind I had to decide what to photograph, what did I want to show and how to produce a small portfolio that expressed the character of this neighbourhood whilst showing human presence, directly or implicitly?<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welling" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welling</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bexley/assets/histories/welling" target="_blank">http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bexley/assets/histories/welling</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2327" target="_blank">http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2327</a></div>
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<b>Approach</b><br />
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Some of the failures with my original set were not showing contrast, not using different perspectives, or shooting at different times of day, not experimenting with light, movement...the list is quite long...therefore I wanted to address as many of these issues as possible.<br />
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It has become apparent to me that when shooting I favour landscape orientation over portrait. This is no doubt due to the fact that we humans have binocular vision - in which both eyes are used together giving a wider field of view and depth perception. Apparently humans have a maximum horizontal field of view of approximately 190 degrees with two eyes. The first hurdle to overcome was to shoot more portrait. This set me thinking along the lines of contrasting images, some portrait some landscape, then contrast in general. I mind-mapped some of the areas and items of interest within Welling and the contrasts within photography: seasons, light/dark, suburbs/green spaces, portrait/landscape, straight/abstract, sharp images/motion blur, wide angle/close up, high/low perspectives, tranquil/busy and negative space/positive space. This mind-map can be found in my learning log.<br />
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Referencing Paul Graham as an influence previously, due to his vast body of work and the variation of his imagery, I chose to have another, closer look. Paul Graham is a photographer who uses contrasts in his work. In <i>American Night </i>he places images which are bright, bold, tack sharp and colourful alongside highly over exposed images. In <i>A Shimmer of Possibilities </i>he shows a man industriously mowing the lawn, a large green expanse, interspersed with images of shelves stacked with food; the images are of different sizes. <i>Paintings</i> has close up shots of graffitied walls. <i>A1- The Great North Road</i> seems to cover everything! Portraits of people, landscape shots, interiors and exteriors of buildings, taken day and night. Some of the shots were a mix of garish colours whilst others were muted and monotone. it has been compared to "the great literary journeys to discover Britain, made by J.B. Priestley and George Orwell and ultimately Celia Fiennes." He in turn drew inspiration from Robert Frank, William Eggleston and Stephen Shore whose work in colour was revolutionary at that time. I hoped to make the inclusion of colour part of the factor within my portfolio, either linking images visually, as a contrast or to suggest a certain mood. Graham examined the social landscape and this was my intention.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1051b08c-74dd-11e0-a4b7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz32F7WTzjH" target="_blank">FT</a><br />
<a href="http://www.paulgrahamarchive.com/" target="_blank">http://www.paulgrahamarchive.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/41306675" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/41306675</a><br />
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During the research into Welling and my mind-mapping, ideas began to form and link to Graham's A1 project. Just as the A1 became a crucial industrial link between central London and Edinburgh, the A2 was an important link from London to Dover - the shops in Welling sprang up along the High Street which led onto Shooter's Hill and beyond. I wondered if I could challenge myself to complete the project within a 4 mile straight road, from Danson Park to Shooters Hill? I also wanted to see if I could convey a sense of place which is made significant by the people who dwell in it by showing traces of them rather than their actual presence.<br />
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<b>Shooting the Ideas</b><br />
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<b>Pre-shoot check list</b><br />
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3 camera batteries fully charged,<br />
Memory card in camera plus spares formatted and packed in bag<br />
Canon 400D Camera, sensor clear from dust<br />
Lens clean and free from dust/grease spots<br />
Lens selection adequate for needs - final choice was for my EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM. It has a constant f/2.8 aperture throughout the zoom range and a 3-stop Image Stabilizer, ideal for a good performance and framing flexibility in low light conditions.<br />
Rainsleeve<br />
Lens Hood<br />
Tripod/Monopod for long exposure night shooting<br />
Shutter release cable<br />
Shot list<br />
Pen and paper<br />
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With the idea of one straight road and contrasts in my head I ventured out, camera in hand shooting different locations as I went, I was looking for contrasting ideas, anything that would spark my creativity. Hopefully! I photographed on and off over a very long period of time, starting, stopping, as I reworked other assignments or life took over, sons GCSE's, then AS's, daughter's degree, settling my mum's estate, her will was contested...honestly it would fill a book!<br />
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<b>Processing/workflow</b><br />
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Although quite a few of the shoots were exploratory I still followed the initial processing workflow.<br />
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Calibrate monitor with Spyder3 calibration tool and software</div>
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Upload with Adobe Bridge - apply metadata template<o:p></o:p></div>
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Choose first and second selects using filtering<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although not in Welling I took a day trip into London and experimented with reflections and abstract shots as part of the GCSE art group's theme of Order and Disorder.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exploring Ideas Winter 2014</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainy Day Exploration</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Further Explorations</td></tr>
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The above are just a snapshot of some of the explorations undertaken. I compared houses, footpaths, streets, ways of remembering people, shops, different light, times of day, seasons, abstracts, ways people used the local facilities, you name it I think I did it...then enough was enough! The final decision had to be made.<br />
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As the shoots progressed I realized although it probably was possible to complete my initial challenge of remaining along the same route, some images didn't quite fit this criteria, even if the majority did. Those that didn't however, do fall within the same small area, with just a little deviation. Some shots I was happy with but struggled to find a successful comparison. Others although a comparison, had no real impact - a house is a house, a park bench is a park bench, unless you can attach some emotional meaning or extra narrative to it. Take for example Ethronvi Road, one of my test shots. The builder of the then new estate, named the road after his three children, Ethel, Ronald and Violet. Sadly it isn't a terribly exciting road to photograph and nothing of interest occurred whilst I was there, so it was dismissed. I have indicated which images were taken along the old A2.<br />
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The course guidelines stipulated a portfolio of between 10-15 images. Through a process of elimination and due to the way I wished to effectively promote the completed body of work, I made a final selection of 12 images. The reasons for this amount and their inclusion are detailed below.<br />
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<b>Image 1 - Paul</b><br />
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On 29th November 2002 19-year-old Paul Powell was involved in an accident on Shooters Hill. He and his best friend, Sam Turner, had escorted a female friend onto a bus. As they re-crossed the road Paul was stuck by a car overtaking the stationary bus. His sister still places flowers on a nearby lamppost in his memory. The colours are strong primary colours which catch your attention. Yellow is now strongly associated with remembering people; the yellow ribbon has long been a symbol of support for absent or missing loved ones. A fairly busy image with no negative space it communicates a personal experience of place and how it has been made significant by one particular family. What made this event more tragic is the pedestrian bridge yards away from where the accident took place. This image was selected because it helped tell the narrative, the flowers commemorating his life, the bus which was a significant part of the accident, and the overhead bridge in the background. Wanting to capture movement within the image I chose to shoot at a slow shutter speed of 1/20 and used a tripod and shutter release cable. Shot on ISO200 due to a slightly overcast day the lighting was superb to capture the flowers without shadows or deep contrasts and I think the lighting adds to the sombre subject. The diagonals of the rose stems lead your eye into the frame and the composition of the deep yellow roses divide the frame in half diagonally leaving the other half to tell the narrative. There is interest in the fore, mid and background, the interaction between the different planes making the image dynamic.The shallow depth of field provides a blurred background which includes the elements relating to the story but allows the audience to tell their own. </div>
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<b>Image 2 - Plumstead Cemetery</b><br />
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In contrast to the street memorial I have included Plumstead Cemetery, a more traditional way of remembering friends and family who have passed. Research found Welling was originally formed part of the ancient manor of East Wickham, mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) and East Wickham was included as part of the return for Plumstead.<br />
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Opened in 1890 and located on a hill which runs along the bottom of my road, the cemetery has gorgeous vistas across London. It contains many interesting graves and memorials, including two former Mayors of Woolwich and two recipients of the Victoria Cross; Private Thomas Flawn and Gunner Alfred Smith. There is also a memorial to victims of enemy action during WW2, especially those killed whilst working at Woolwich Arsenal. Death affects us all at some point, and recent events have brought this home, this image communicates both a personal and shared experience. Other contrasts to the previous image are a greater depth of field, a sense of stillness and tranquility, and a limited colour palette.The psychology of Green which is pale and muted by tinting or toning with White or Gray, usually creates a very relaxing environment. Ordinarily I would not choose to place an object so obviously mid-frame but I think this helps convey the stillness of the cemetery. The branches and their shadows frame the scene providing leading lines into the image whilst the serried ranks of the other grave stones lead diagonally away from the main centre stone. There is interest in the foreground lighter mid and background tones.<br />
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<b>Image 3 - Jenton Avenue</b><br />
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Jenton Avenue could be considered a typical road in Welling, a mix of houses and bungalows built in about 1930 before people became 2/3 car families. Now front gardens and pathways are becoming driveways and those with side garden access are having garages built across them. What caught my eye was the personalization of the garage with the bright red moped mural which, on closer inspection seems to be a large print poster. I loved the way the gravelly concrete drive seems to continue into the poster and the red of the car on the driveway was echoed in the red moped, the European countryside vista a juxtaposition to the obvious concrete, geometric shapes of the real urban surroundings and the vibrant reds standing out against the bland magnolia wall paint. Shooting from a low perspective the wheel arch was incorporated to pick out the red in the poster and show curved lines to soften the straight lines of the building, providing interest in the fore, mid and background. Taken very early in the morning with ambient light still low.<br />
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<b>Image 4 - Oxleas Woods</b><br />
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Oxleas Wood, as mentioned above, is one of the few remaining areas of ancient deciduous forest in southeast London with some areas dating back 8,000 years. It is part of a larger continuous area of woodland and parkland on the south side of Shooter's Hill. Oxleas Woods has its own website, the paths are well trodden being part of the south east London Green Chain walk. Hidden within you can find Severndroog castle (a rich man's folly built in 1784) and a terraced garden in Jack Wood. There is also a cafe, definitely a place for shared experiences.<br />
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I chose this image as the meandering woodland path is in direct contrast the straight concrete path and illustration of trees in the previous photograph. It compares the suburban to the green open spaces only a few miles away. The sharp clear lines of the driveway and buildings are opposite to the natural forms of the woodland and the early morning mists help shroud any straight lines. The subtle green palette of the trees and shrubs, complementary to the red of the car and moped, another dissimilitude. Whilst the vehicles suggest transport, and movement - a link to the A2, M25 and the constant threat of urban sprawl to our local environment the woodlands suggest a slower more peaceful pace which gives no indication of the perils it once faced.<br />
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The patch of light on the bungalow echoed by the patch of early morning light on the trees does visually link the two.<br />
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Taken early in the morning I used a tripod, slow shutter speed with a shutter release cable.<br />
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<b>Image 5 - Supertramp Ladies Fashions</b><br />
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Supertramp ladies fashions became a victim to the current economic climate. Having closed down several months ago the lease has not as yet been picked up by anyone else. This is a story told in many towns across the country, with large retail outlets and large supermarkets squeezing out the smaller businessman from the local High Street. I have previously purchased items from this store so it was sad to see it go. Looking in, what caught my eye at first were the pools of light coming from the open doorway and reflected from the mirrors in the open changing rooms. The closer I looked the more detail I saw, the reflections of the busy street outside a juxtaposition the the stillness of the shop, and the only splash of colour in an otherwise monotone image. The geometric patterns of the ceiling tiles, the tiled pillar, the abstract patterns of the light fittings and the forlorn way the changing room curtains seemed to hang straight down. The lines of the ceiling tiles lead your eye into the frame where you take in the details at the back of the shop and the pools of light lead the eye back out into the vacant, negative, space of the shop. In the meaning of colours, gray is boring, drab and too much of it creates sadness and depression, a tendency to loneliness and isolation which I think this image represents.<br />
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<b>Image 6 - Morrisons </b><br />
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Back in 2008/2009 Welling town centre was left like a ghost town. The Welling High Street supermarket, formerly owned by the Co-op, closed after being bought by the Morrisons chain. They planned to alter and refurbish the store before reopening later the next year. Unfortunately the closure coincided with the redevelopment of Embassy Court, directly opposite the Co-op, where the second High Street supermarket Tesco, also shut. Shoppers had to desert Welling to spend elsewhere. Both stores have now been rebuilt, even though it seems odd to have two superstores directly opposite each other.<br />
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This image in direct contrast the the one above as it portrays two large successful stores in the same High Street. I love the distorted, abstract reflections of Tesco in Morrisons windows (a juxtaposition to the geometric repeat pattern of the pavement) It is unclear as to what is real and what is reflection.<br />
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<b>Image 7 - Danson Park</b><br />
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Danson estate, which probably existed since before the 13th Century, is now run as a public park by Bexley Council. A popular venue, it provides a large number of facilities for both active recreation or just enjoying the scenery, with a full programme of annual events including summer concerts and the annual Fireworks Display in November.</div>
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Danson Park is designated Grade II on the English Heritage register of parks and gardens of special historical interest, occupying more than 180 acres of land. The park, including the gardens of Danson House, benefited from Heritage Lottery Fund support for a programme of renovation and restoration. This was completed in 2006. Many local residents constantly use and enjoy the events and facilities provided by Danson Park. During the summers when my children were growing up we would spend a lot of time here. It was very local, we would pack a picnic, bread for the ducks, skates, bikes etc arrive first thing in the morning and leave last thing at night. At one point I worked opposite the park and would walk here every lunch time to clear my head.</div>
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This image also represents some of the green spaces easily accessible in my neighbourhood. Taken early one October morning, I loved the quality of the light, the low lying mist and the starburst coming through the trees. The soft Autumnal colour palette provides a calm relaxing atmosphere, summing up the serene experiences that can be had. The shadows of the trees help lead your eye into the frame where the strong outlines of the silhouetted trees frame the goal posts, and the silhouettes of the dog walkers indicate two of the activities people enjoy here. There is interest in the fore, mid and background. The foreground being dark-toned, the middle distance mid-toned, and the background lighter in tone. The branches and autumn leaves providing an abstract pattern and organic shapes.</div>
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A roundabout in the middle of a fairly large crossroads about five minutes away from my home. Again an early morning, but this time pre-dawn shot, this urban image - the street furniture with geometric shapes - is in contrast to that of Danson Park. The arrows commanding your direction as opposed to letting you ramble at will. Having said that there are several strong visual links; the shadows of the trees and street furniture lead your eye into the frame, the trees and first lamppost an implied triangle just like the tree silhouettes, and these also provide frames within a frame. The starburst of the street light echoes the starburst of the sun coming through the trees. The light trails indicate a presence of people and suggest movement. The arrows on the roundabout lead your eye across the frame to the left whilst the light trails lead the viewer's gaze to the right. The perspective of the street lights take your eye right to the vanishing point. There is interest in the fore, mid and background.<br />
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The next four images were not produced as contrasting images. Taking advantage of the remit to explore and experiment I chose to photograph stand alone images that would still come together within one body of work and the exploration of my local neighbourhood. I planned to explore the abstract within photographs, leading to completely abstract images.<br />
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<b>Image 9 - Love-in-a-mist (Nigella)</b><br />
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On first inspection this image is purely an image of a flower but for me it sums up personal and shared experiences. Even for me it is polysemic. The single flower signifies the individuals that make up the community as a whole but I also think it represents me. The two smaller flowers to the left are my children. The one in the background slightly out of focus signifies my daughter who is at University in Salford, graduating in July, and although still an important part of her life I am no longer central to it. The other my teenage son, approaching 17 and my influence is fading fast!<br />
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My front garden is deliberately uncultivated for two reasons, firstly to attract as much wildlife as possible - I allow wildflowers to grow and self seed (although I pull out dandelions) with thistles, nigella, aquilegia and poppies running wild. I enjoy the riot of colours, as do the insects and passersby. Secondly due to the demands on my time. A single parent, I juggle work, studies, home and children. I have now lived in this property as a single parent for as long as I did as in a marriage. The common name Love-in-a-mist and the flowers delicate form conjures up the imagery of the ephemeral nature of love.The blue colour symbolizes the down moments whilst the sunny day characterizes my optimism.<br />
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Several people have knocked on my door and asked for seed-heads and I have no problems with sharing. On one occasion a rather drunk man asked if he could pick some as a peace offering to his long standing partner ;oD This therefore does sum up many shared experiences, although the audience may have to write their own narratives. I deliberately chose a shallow depth of field as I wanted to portray the mystery behind the obvious, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors, and explore the abstract patterns created by the foliage in the background. (Only I know the dark blob in the background is my large recycling bin)<br />
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<b><br /></b>Over the past few winters the level of rainfall has been excessive with many drains overflowing, pot holes and sink holes appearing across the borough. Several areas have suffered with local flooding, a common shared experience. My roof began to leak during one of the heavy storms so I feel very strongly about the rain we had this winter. To me this image portrays people's stoicism, how they carry on regardless, wading through despite the constant deluges. The reflections and ripples exploring abstract patterns whilst the ripples also represent the impact we have on each other. The motion blur and foot mid air help suggest movement as do the increasing ripples.<br />
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Still focusing on the bad weather and the impact it had on my ability to photograph the scenes I wanted, as well as the community of Welling as a whole, I took some images from the safety of my car, concentrating on capturing the abstract. As a driver I feel sorry for those standing at bus stops in inclement weather and on the odd occasion I have to catch the bus I stare at the drivers in their warm cars listening to their radios with envy. Something I am sure we all experience at some stage.The random patterns of the rivulets and focusing on the glass has distorted the passing bus. The bright red a contrast the the bus' darker interior, the coloured blobs suggesting the outline of the passengers. The geometric shapes of the windows, wheel and bus livery a contrast to the organic shapes of the raindrops.<br />
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The final image within the set is total abstraction, taken in the pre-dawn light I deliberately took several out of focus images of the traffic to produce bokeh, the headlights and tail lights merging; Welling is very close to the A2 and the M25 with many of its residents having the shared experience of commuting to work. The photograph seems to contain all the hues contained in the other shots within the set tying them together, it has light and dark tones, vibrant colours and more subtle subdued shades. The circles link and overlap, suggesting how we in society link and overlap yet still keep parts of ourselves hidden, just as the abstraction hides the exact subject matter of this photograph. It also suggests that no matter how much we explore our surroundings there will always be more to discover.<br />
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The other assignments within this module are produced for a specific purpose, a book cover, a magazine spread, and photojournalistic images to cover an event. This first assignment is the only one that has the freedom to be totally of my own choice, as subjective as I wish and without a specific target audience/medium. The brief advises us to look at several genres and allows for the final portfolio to be a mixture of photographic styles should we so wish.<br />
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I have been to several exhibitions during the completion of this course and studied many practitioners and the different ways they display their work. Taking all of this into consideration I decided to approach this project as if an exhibition was it's final outcome. The intention would be to display the images in pairs, one portrait and one landscape, showing the contrasts within my local environment, these contrasts would therefore be physical as well as visual.<br />
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Photographers' work is curated in many ways, invariably in high-ceilinged rooms, natural light flooding in, or under spot lights, with the majority of the walls being white, cream, or grey. Very few were of darker tones and none I visited were vibrantly coloured. Images were not framed at all and unceremoniously stuck to the wall with blu-tack, others mounted on block boards. Some framed but not behind glass, some framed but with no passe-partout. On the whole frames are either black or white although I have seen brown and in some instances the frames were coloured to match the imagery on display. The choice of framing is obviously a very conscious one, with the impact the frames having upon the images being an important visual decision. At the recent Sony WPA for example, photographer Salvatore Esposito entered two categories. One body of work <i>The Power of Silence, </i>was framed in white, while<i> What is Missing </i>was framed in black. Both shot in black and white <i>The Power of Silence</i> told a positive narrative about the love of parents and family unity which kept a family with autistic twins together. <i>What is Missing </i>focused mainly "on young criminals affiliated with the Camorra, on drug dealers, robbers and others living illegally." Elad Lassry, nominated for the Deutsche Borse photography prize in 2011 had colourful frames matching the colourful subject matter of his photographs.<br />
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Passe-partouts also come in a variety of shades and colours and oddly white, which I thought would be the first choice, can actually appear quite jarring when against certain images and an off-white/cream makes for a subtler presentation. Having said that I think the cream chosen for my framed examples is a too dark! The images themselves, framed or otherwise, were either uniform size and displayed in neat rows or lines but some had montages of images of various sizes and crops placed all over the wall, even at floor level like Jim Goldberg's <i>Open See.</i><br />
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In this instance I have theoretically chosen to have the images printed A3, as I like the idea of the audience getting close to the work to examine it, this way they would be more intimate with the work, not able to stand away; the closer they get the more of an effort they would have to make to engage with it. Experimenting I think a cream passe-partout works better with the majority of the images and is not detrimental to those where white was not an issue. The frame would be thin black and anti glare glass used. I have noted that in many exhibitions the light reflecting on the glass has been a problem, as well as the glass not being cleaned properly with residual smears left behind. Surprisingly, this was most notable at the recent Steve McCurry exhibition I attended at the Beetles and Hoxton Gallery in Swallow Street this weekend.<br />
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In view of the fact that I can be slightly more experimental with this assignment I have chosen to have eight images displayed as pairs and the final four, more abstract photos printed at larger than average postcard size @ 9x6 and displayed as a vertical quadriptych.<br />
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The order of the display I would suggest to be as follows:<br />
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I think it would be good to begin with a brightly coloured image which catches the attention; the theme of death and the ending of something lead nicely into the empty shop premises. The shadows of the trees and branches leading the eye into the frame just as the floorboards and ceiling tiles of the shop do. The mirrors and the windows creating frames within frames</div>
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The strong geometric shapes and vertical lines of both of the above images connect to the vertical lines of the buildings in the next pair, the red of the Tesco signs echoed in the red of the car and moped, the road surface to the driveway, the yellow lines on the road linking to the splash of yellow in the poster.<br />
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The image of Oxleas Woods lead naturally to the trees of Danson Park and the early morning light in the final pair within the portfolio.<br />
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The quadriptych would hang at the very end, an exploration of abstraction, indicating no matter how much we think we know our neighbourhood certain elements will always remain hidden, the abstraction building slowly from the first image within the set to the last, with the presence of people implicit rather than direct.<br />
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Whilst at the seminar <i>Sharing Photography and Photographs – Photography in a Connected Age</i> at the Royal Photographic Society and University of Westminster, I heard James Evans speak and present a slideshow about his work.What I found fascinating about his approach was his willingness to allow the viewing public to handle his art, although he regretted it when they stole it!<br />
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Venturing into the realms of installation pieces I would like to construct two 8 inch cubes, (I'd have to experiment to discover the actual size) each face would be made from an eight inch square section from each photograph in the series. The faces of the cubes showing the different facets of Welling. The cubes would be supported, on its vertex, in an acrylic slender almost "egg cup" like holder, 12 inches above a cracked mirrored surface on a plinth. The mirror would reflect the faces, making abstract patterns and showing the fragility of the interdependence we share. The cubes can be moved, changing which face is uppermost therefore altering the kaleidoscopic patterns. These cubes would ideally be placed at either end of the photographic display.<br />
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I'd like to be able to offer a selection of postcards from the exhibition for visitors to take home and, if going the whole hog with multimedia presentation I could even have an audio file sound recording of Welling High Street playing on a loop, like Mishka Henna's <i>No Man's Land</i>,making the exhibition a complete visual/ audio and kinesthetic experience.<br />
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Portfolios can also be published on a photographers website. I currently have a free Weebly site which needs some work doing to it to bring it up to scratch - a job for next week perchance....<br />
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<a href="http://jfocaphotography.weebly.com/" target="_blank">http://jfocaphotography.weebly.com/</a><br />
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<b>What have I learnt?</b><br />
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Responding to feedback from assignment five when re-working this assignment I thought about the advice given:<br />
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PLAN – RESEARCH – EQUIPMENT – CAPTURE – 1ST EDIT – 2ND EDIT – PRINT and hope I have provided enough evidence that I have carried out each stage and have realised the importance of each one.<br />
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Thinking before capturing, all the stages before picking up my camera, as well as when I had the scene in front of me, had an impact on trying to link the work rather than randomly shooting and hoping for the best when I got home. I recognise that it is important to adapt your ideas, be able to develop them as the series continues, to not be blinkered, sticking too rigidly to original thoughts. Carrying out research assisted greatly on pinning down aspects where I wanted to concentrate my focus<br />
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I learnt rain does not have to stop play, to use colour effectively, to use contrast, juxtaposition different perspectives in one body of work.<br />
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Images selected, I gave serious thought about how they could be made into tangible objects in a variety of ways, these ideas could be extended, made into business cards, key-rings, mouse-mats, the list in endless if you can afford to create them and people actually want to buy them!<br />
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In some of the images I got closer to the main subject and tried to be mindful of background when making compositions. I endeavored to make sure every element in the images was there for a reason, that everything added to the narrative/context, that the backgrounds were in keeping with the main subject.<br />
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Oddly what I learnt most wasn't photographic. In my effort to show others our interdependence, our common experiences, the impact we have on each other and whilst imbuing objects with life and emotional resonance, I realized I am more connected to my neighbourhood than originally thought.<br />
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<b>Conclusion</b><br />
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Looking back at the original failures and my intention to address them I think I have been successful, showed contrast, used different perspectives, shot at different times of day, experimented with light and movement. I have taken more, or been able to crop images, with portrait orientation. The final set shows obvious contrasts of portrait and landscape, seasons, light/dark, suburbs/green spaces,straight/abstract, sharp images/motion blur, wide angle/close up, high/low perspectives, tranquil/busy and negative/positive space.<br />
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Referencing Paul Graham was useful especially <i>A1- The Great North Road</i> , this encouraged me to not focus on one aspect but to explore different styles and perspectives, to capture architecture as well as landscape, experiment with light and colour, linking images visually, as a contrast or to suggest a certain mood. Graham examined the social landscape and so have I. Although I did not stick rigidly to the route of the A2 I did not stray much beyond its area of influence. I think I met my other challenge which was to show the traces of people implicitly, using reflection, abstraction, silhouettes and inference.<br />
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I am pleased with my decision to scrap the original assignment, taking on-board the constructive criticism I received. Although it has taken me a long time to complete the re-working it gave me the opportunity to look at other practitioners, visit more exhibitions and be more considered about my own work. The final set does convey a sense of place, places made significant by the people who dwell here, shows human activity and traces of people.<br />
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Although a re-worked assignment I asked Keith if he would take a look at it for me seeing as he was not my tutor for the first attempt. Although extremely busy he agreed to have a peek. I was really pleased with is positive feedback, especially when he said he actually quite liked the first one too!<br />
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<i>I have had a quick look at the assignment one re-submission and thought these were a very interesting and diverse set of images shot over a variety of locations, at a variety of different times, covering many issues both personal and local to you etc. (I particularly liked the first shot of the flowers and bus and also the bus through rainy window and the last shot of the abstract colours) I think I only took over as your tutor during assignment three, so didn't feedback on the first set .... But I've had a quick look at these as well and quite liked them also. </i><br />
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<i>The main things as discussed is that you have responded very positively to the feedback offered and re-visited the work etc. I liked the research you conducted into Paul Graham / John Davies .... which is all very relevant as far as I am concerned.</i><br />
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So many thanks again to Keith who has been a brilliantly supportive and instructive tutor.<br />
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Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-17027351449990774442014-05-15T13:37:00.001-07:002014-05-15T13:37:16.923-07:00Criticizing Photographs Terry Barrett<br />
A well battered copy arrived in the post, I don't mind that it is rather thumbed; the information is just as valid and informative.<br />
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I totally agree with Barrett's statement that one of the best ways to appreciate an image is to observe, think and talk about it. This is why I value study days or going to exhibitions/galleries with others, talking about images help establish my opinions or alters them. Maybe not even at that moment in time, but when I come to do a review and talk about images in my blog I am forced to think about them, why they appeal or not, what I like or dislike. Harry Broudy* is mentioned, one of his beliefs is that it is important to learn through self-discovery. An interesting debate was raised on a Facebook forum with regards to spending time "justifying" images. I argued that this surely cannot be a bad thing. In evaluating your own images, trying to be less subjective and breaking them down saying why they made they cut, why they were processed in a certain fashion etc you are learning about how you create an image, not just technically, and finding your own style or "voice". It is an ongoing process, mistakes will be made, or an image may be polysemous even if that was not the photographer's intention. It is important to recognize that others may glean a different inference. He coined a phrase "enlightened cherishing" a concept that combines thought (enlightened) and feeling (cherishing) both required to achieve understanding and appreciation.<br />
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(*<i>A synopsis of Dr. Harry S. Broudy's viewpoint of Education: </i><br />
<i>Dr. Broudy said education is basic to all other forms of inquiry, because there is none that does not involve learning and some teaching(Broudy 1972). He also believes teaching sensitivity to the appearance of things, the expressive properties of color, sound, texture and movement organized into aesthetic objects, and the perception and construction of images that portray intimations of reality in he form of feelings(McNeil 1990). Dr. Broudy also wrote a book entitled Truth and Credibility: The citizens dilemma to support his thoughts on citizenship being part of the educational curriculum</i>.)<br />
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<a href="http://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/nadams/educ692/Broudy.html" target="_blank">http://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/nadams/educ692/Broudy.html</a><br />
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Susan Sontag's On Photography is highlighted as a point of reference for articles of criticism of photography, a book I possess and sometimes dip into, probably should do more so now. Another point I picked up on was the brief given by the <i>New Art Examiner</i> to its reviewers that "the writers opinion of the work is the backbone of a review. Set up your thesis by the third paragraph and use the rest of the space to substantiate it"<br />
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Critics hail from many backgrounds being writers, artists, photographers et al. A.D.Coleman, a full-time freelance critic, was not formally schooled in photography and likes to think of himself as "a voice from the audience" which I find quite comforting - in that he would not come to the subject forearmed with a set artistic bias...possibly ;o) People ( as in critics) will come to the table with their own agendas; Grace Glueck hoped to "inform, elucidate,explain and enlighten" wanting to "help a reader place art in a context, establish where it's coming from, what feeds it, how it stacks up in relation to other art." This statement made me also see why it is important to reference own own work against other practitioners when completing assignments. Some of the comments in the book made me smile, the criticism of critics, Lippard's writing "straightforward political propaganda" Szarkowski accused of "aestheticizing photographs", Sekula of being "suspicious of photography. Made me feel better that you don't have to agree with what you read just because the writers have a "name," sometimes I scoff at what I read, maybe this is because I need to be educated a little more and eventually may see what they are trying to say and alter my own stance, or possibly because I have found my own defensible position? Who knows? Donald Kuspit countered that "not all criticism is good criticism" with the best critics realizing that they couldn't be "dogmatic" in their views because "they can always be corrected."<br />
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The section which described the different viewpoints of an Avedon exhibition "In the American West" was also of great interest, reading the different descriptions, vocabulary used (I may have to write my own descriptive word bank) and how slightly different aspects were reviewed depending on the critic, publication and audience. Another point that made me think about how we can compare and contrast photographs was that comparisons don't necessarily have to be between just photographers, especially if telling a narrative comparisons can be made between storytellers.<br />
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Joel-Peter Witkin is a photographer mentioned who I have vaguely heard of before, he uses borrowed imagery, ideas and reproductions of famous paintings in some of his work...most seems rather obscure but each to their own I guess!<br />
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<a href="http://alafoto.com/listing/thumbnails.php?album=218" target="_blank">http://alafoto.com/listing/thumbnails.php?album=218</a><br />
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I enjoyed the vibe given by different descriptors of his work either with edges being "the usual fuzz" or "syrupy" as to opposed to a more positive view that insists he shows an "incredible range of form definition"... so next time I make an out of focus exposure I know how to put a positive spin on it ;oD<br />
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Part of our marks are to do with communication, reading these chapters has certainly given me food for thought as to how I should be communicating through both imagery and words. On interpreting photographs Barrett tells us that even simple ones "demand interpretation" to be recognized as "pictures about something,,,,some communicative and expressive purpose." We must also recognise that people's knowledge, beliefs,. values and attitudes will impact on the image they take, photographs will only show a partial truth. I loved the Nelson Goodman quote which I had never read before:<br />
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<i>there is no innocent eye. The eye comes always ancient to its work, obsessed by its past and by old and new insinuations of the ear, nose, tongue, fingers, heart and brain. It functions not as an instrument self-powered and alone, but as a dutiful member if a complex and capricious organism. Not only how but what it sees is regulated by need and prejudice.</i><br />
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Barrett also tells us that photographs should be regarded as metaphors in need of deciphering with qualities of one thing being transferred to another and as having two layers of meaning. He mentions Barthes, <involuntary groan> who identified two signifiers; denotations and connotations. What an images shows and what it implies...see Barthes you CAN say it in English that everyone can understand without resorting to the thesaurus!<br />
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I skim read the section on different interpretations, and valid and educational as they are it's something I will return to. Rather, I looked more closely at interpretation and the artists intent and Minor White's philosophy that placed the responsibility of interpretation on the viewer, and I think he is right. It doesn't matter most of the time what you think you have captured someone always comes along and thinks of a different way of looking at the scene. Cindy Sherman is quoted as saying "I've only been interested in making the work and leaving the analysis to the critics."<br />
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In my essay I discussed if photography is made or taken and does it matter, I wish I had read this quote then...in 1861 C.Jabez Hughes* declared "If a picture cannot be produced by one negative, let him have two or ten; but...the picture when finished must stand or fall entirely by the effects produced and not the means employed."<br />
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<i>*(Cornelius Jabez Hughes (1819-1884), Photographer, writer and lecturer</i><br />
<i>Artist associated with 38 portraits</i><br />
<i>Born in England in 1819, Hughes began his photographic career in 1847 as an assistant in the studio of J.J.E. Mayall in London. After a brief stint working in Glasgow, he returned to London in 1855 to assume ownership of Mayall's studio. Hughes later built his own studio on the Isle of Wight, where he often photographed Queen Victoria. Toward the end of his life he teamed up with his assistant, Gustav Mullins, to form a new partnership, Hughes & Mullins. Hughes was popular both as a portrait photographer and as a writer on the subject of photography. He died in 1884. The National Portrait Gallery holds over 30 of his photographs.)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07825/cornelius-jabez-hughes" target="_blank">http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07825/cornelius-jabez-hughes</a></i><br />
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Missing out huge chunks, again to be devoured with delight, (I really am enjoying this book) we move on to talking about photographs and how our initial comments are evaluative along the lines of "this is a great show" or "I don't like this stuff" this made me chortle as I think to some of the less publishable asides made when wandering about the exhibitions <koff>. Mine are usually "what ....the....are they....it's total....." Then sometimes on reflection and actually thinking about it I'm not so scathing or can see the merit in where at least they were coming from even if I don't appreciate the final result. I remember one observation we made when looking at a scantily clad woman in a bathroom was "you know the first thing we discussed was the fact we couldn't see the camera reflected in the mirror rather than the fact she had her tits out? Shows we must be photography students ;oD"<br />
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To help me as a student critique work Barrett recommends you:<br />Describe what you see<br />Consider subject matter and form<br />Let the interpretation be a communal effort<br />If present the photographer should remain silent<br />Avoid hasty judgment (ooops!)<br />Be honest and open (see above oooops)<br /><br />But in any discussion actively listen and acknowledge, respond and build upon it. Even if you disagree. Interesting exercise I undertook once was to turn negatives into positives, people in the group (nothing to do with photography) were not allowed to say "but" they had to say "and"...amazing how it worked!<br /><br />So much more could be said but for now I shall end this post be reiterating that I think it is a really good purchase, written in simple English, easy to read and comprehend, loads of quotes and pointers for further research...can I have my promotional cheque in the post please :o)<br />
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<br />Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-80735460621606249812014-05-08T12:36:00.000-07:002014-05-08T13:03:29.022-07:00Key Texts - a short review.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The version of the course I have recommended the following key texts:<br />
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Barrett,T, (2005) <i>Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images</i>. New York: McGraw-Hill<br />
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Heron, M. (2007) <i>Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell. New York</i>: Allworth Press<br />
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Lee,T (2007) <i>Digital Capture and Workflow for Professional Photographers</i>. Buffalo, NY:Amherst Media<br />
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Thomas, G. and Ibbotson, J. (2003)<i> Beyond the Lens: Rights, Ethics and Business Practice in Professional Photography. </i>London: The Association of Photographers (AoP)<br />
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Tracy, J. (2010) <i>The Freelance Photographer's Market Handbook 2011</i> (27th Edition) London: BFP Books<br />
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Wells,E. (2002) <i>The Photography Reader</i>. London: Routledge<br />
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Wells, E. (2009) <i>Photography: A Critical Introduction.</i> Oxford: Routledge<br />
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<b>Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images</b><br />
Barrett,T, (2005) <i>Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images</i>. New York: McGraw-Hill<br />
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In summary Terry Barrett’s book is a good general introduction to photographic theory with an emphasis on criticism – it's aim is to reveal to the reader why criticism of images is important, how to understand photographic criticism, and finally how to read photographs.<br />
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About art criticism - Starts by commenting that unfortunately, we usually don't equate criticism with appreciation because in everyday language the term criticism has negative connotations: used to refer to the act of making judgments, usually negative judgments, and the act of expressing disapproval.Barrett quotes several sources to back his argument including Lucy Lippard who said on not being regarded as a critic as ok because "It's negative connotations place the writer in fundamental antagonism to the artists"<br />
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He tries to define criticism - the term itself being complex, having several different meanings.<br />
However the way to become informed about art is by critically thinking about it. Criticism is put forward as a means to the end of understanding and appreciating photography. Barrett begins by classifying the act of criticism into four activities:<br />
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<li>describing</li>
<li>interpreting</li>
<li>evaluating</li>
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One of his references made sense ;o) A D Coleman (a critic) said " I merely look closely at, and into all sorts of photographic images and attempt to pinpoint in words what they provoke me to feel and think and understand." Barrett reiterates that 'criticism is informed discourse about art to increase understanding and appreciation of art'. There are various sources of criticism, the classroom, lecture hall and publications. Barrett cites many examples of practitioners, writers and publications which are probably all worth investigating at some later stage. However it is worth noting when reading essays or articles that each source will have it's own style, tone and political ideology.<br />
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There are two kinds of crit (fed up with writing the long version) exploratory aesthetic criticism and argumentation aesthetic criticism:<br />
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When I read this I thought this also can apply to written critical essays and helped inform the way I wrote my critical review: read, interpret, comment, back up your argument. I can see how useful this can be when looking at photography, mine as well as others. From the book Andy Grundberg saw two basic approaches - applied - practical and immediate - tends towards journalism and theoretical - being philosophical - towards aesthetics- for example Roland Barthes <i>Camera Lucida</i>..... ( why did I inwardly groan at the mention of that book) for me one of the important quotes from Grundberg was "criticism's task is to make arguments not pronouncements"<br />
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A lot more follows until we get to a section about the value of criticism - there is a value to reading good crit, it increases knowledge and appreciation of art, I totally agree with Maria Siegel who said on how writing informs her because "words are an instrument of thinking." Often I find when writing my reviews after seeing an exhibition that my opinion changes or becomes stronger when having to formalise my thoughts and express them in a written form.<br />
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Chapter 2 deals more with describing photographs. 'Descriptions are the answers to the questions, What is here? What am I looking at? What do I know with certainty about this image?' Basic statements can be made about the subject matter, medium, form and causal environment. Descriptive information is either true or false and an accurate description is'an essential part of holding defensible critical positions'...in other words make sure you get your facts straight in the first place! Again many examples of photographers work is analysed and to go into huge depth in this post would be overwhelming and tbh I think I need to re-read it to get everything of benefit but the exploration into subject matter, medium, form, style etc will definitely help me when having to write about the images I review in future. A common method of critical analysis is to 'compare and contrast it to other work by the same photographer, to other photographers’ works, or to works by other artists. To compare and contrast is to see what the work in question has in common with and how the work differs from another body of work.' I think this was and will be useful to remember when writing supporting statements alongside my assignments, when you have to state which photographer informed your final images.<br />
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There are 8 chapters in all - so far too many to really review in an online post, I have dipped in and out of this book on an online pdf version but always find I prefer to thumb through an actual copy. I was lucky enough to find a secondhand version for sale at £1.96! The postage was more!! I think this book will serve me well in the future for many reasons, thinking about how I look at images, how I write about images and how better to critique my own work.<br />
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<b>Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell</b><br />
Heron, M. (2007) <i>Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell. New York</i>: Allworth Press<br />
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I can't remember who it was but someone advised me that if they had to choose just one book that would explain everything you needed to know about contemporary stock photography this would be it. Importantly you need to do your homework before taking a single image. You need a plan of attack, and consider how you would visually capture a concept. It is a truly comprehensive introduction to the world of Digital Stock Photography and as yet as this isn't a venue I am seeking to explore I haven't delved into this book as much as I possibly could have done.<br />
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It's contents are as follows:<br />
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1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Business of Digital Stock<br />
2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>How to Shoot for Stock – Style and Concept<br />
3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Equipment for Capturing and Scanning Images<br />
4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shooting What’s Needed<br />
5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Twenty-five Stock Assignments you can Shoot<br />
6.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Preparing the Shoot<br />
7.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Editing and Post Production in the Digital Work Flow<br />
8.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Running a Stock Photography Business<br />
9.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Marketing your Stock<br />
10.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Finding a Stock Agency or Portal<br />
11.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Negotiating Prices<br />
12.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Copyright – What Do We Own<br />
13.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Model Releases and Business Forms<br />
14.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Appendix 1: Bibliography<br />
15.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Appendix 2: Organizations<br />
16.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Appendix 3: Workshops<br />
17.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Appendix 4: Promotions/Source Books<br />
18.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Appendix 5: Manufacturers<br />
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What I found interesting was how some of the ideas can spill into what I want to photograph anyway, either for personal pleasure or for assignment, foe example the chapter on Style and Concept makes you think about capturing thought provoking concepts. How do you capture togetherness as a family in an image. How do you shoot stress? How do you shoot teamwork? A section on shooting symbols and what things mean -cooperation could be represented by images of teams, a barn raising, shaking hands, etc<br />
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Another section of the book was on different 25 Stock Assignments with each assignment containing the category, purpose, and subject of the image. Variations of how to frame shots, what models are needed, props, ethnicities, and location. What to avoid and several general notes about each shoot. How to gain permission from businesses to shoot at a location, offering incentives to get permission for the shoot, creating a storyboard, working with a Production Coordinator, building a prop closet, to even sending a thank you note to the models after the shoot.<br />
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The section on Releases and forms contains sample Model releases, Property Releases, Stock Picture Delivery Memo, Stock Shoot Estimate Worksheet, Stock Photography invoice, and a Stock Photo Request Form.<br />
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As I say, lots to think about, lots of useful tips, so if interested in pursuing this avenue to making money a book I'd recommend.<br />
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<a href="http://www.alamy.com/" target="_blank">http://www.alamy.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/" target="_blank">http://www.shutterstock.com/</a><br />
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/<br />
<a href="http://www.istockphoto.com/" target="_blank">http://www.istockphoto.com/</a><br />
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<b>Digital Capture and Workflow for Professional Photographers</b><br />
Lee,T (2007) <i>Digital Capture and Workflow for Professional Photographers</i>. Buffalo, NY:Amherst Media<br />
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In short a step-by-step guide to techniques for creating digitally enhanced images, album design, expert presentation, and printing-industry-standard prints. Chapters, cover image control, working with JPEGs, processing raw files, workstation ergonomics, and client presentation. It is all to easy to assume you know a lot because you have been using programs like Photoshop for a while, or printing things for a while, but things change, industry standards alter, different practices come about and are found to be better, or you may just have not been doing it right in the first place. So I picked this book up and thumbed through it with interest. Published in 2007 and talking about CS2 and 12 bit RAW showed me how quickly things move forward and even recommended books may be out of date!<br />
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There were a lot of basics confirmed that I already do. shoot RAW, that digital images need sharpening, check camera setting such as white balance, histograms. use EVC if needed, convert to 8-bit for printing, although this is also out-of-date as some high end printers now have a 16 bit printing option apparently ( I wouldn't know I don't possess one!) Another thing the book recommended which I was once told not to do was to save files as PSD, I was told to save as Tiff so other programs could open the files and also some versions of PSD files were not backwards compatible?<br />
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Interesting to see Lee's workflow timetable for a wedding shoot<br />
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I think I need to speed up my processing ;oD Some of the photoshop techniques now positively creaked as did some of the web page designs but to a beginner I guess they would introduce the ideas. The section that I was most looking forward to was about Preparing for Print but this did not have enough information at all compared to recent articles online and the upgrade in printers and software.<br />
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Conclusion - I don't think this book should be on the recommended list if it still is.....<br />
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<b>Beyond the Lens: Rights, Ethics and Business Practice in Professional Photography</b><br />
Thomas, G. and Ibbotson, J. (2003)<i> Beyond the Lens: Rights, Ethics and Business Practice in Professional Photography. </i>London: The Association of Photographers (AoP)<br />
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an overview for the web site:<br />
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<i>Published in England by the Association of Photographers (AOP), Beyond the Lens is the essential guide to rights, ethics and business practice in professional photography.</i><br />
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<i>Now in its fourth edition it has been likened to 'the bible for photographers and commissioners' and is used by colleges/universities as part of their courses and widely used by photographers and commissioners.This 4th edition of Beyond the Lens has a foreword by Terry O'Neill and is split into 3 parts:</i><br />
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<i>The Law and the Photographer: covers copyright, moral rights, contract law, privacy, photographing children, late payment, legal remedies for copyright infringements and unpaid debts both in the UK and EU plus legislation that photographers need to be aware of. </i><br />
<i>The Business End: with advice on tax, VAT, accounting, bookkeeping, insurance, limited companies, pensions, savings, investments and mortgages, dealing with income/career problems, standards and codes, social media, agents, collecting societies and associations and unions.</i><br />
<i>Making a Living: is written by photographers and covers how to be a student, working as an assisting photographer, specific area of photography from their perspective - advertising, editorial, architectural, corporate and design, stock, digital and moving image, working overseas, and shooting on the streets.</i><br />
<i>An appendix includes 3 sets of photographers' terms and conditions for those based either in England & Wales, Scotland or Eire; model release form; template business forms and agents agreement.</i><br />
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I must admit my brain just turned to mush when looking at all the rights and ethics, I dare say if I did want to become a professional photographer it would, as the blurb suggests, become my bible as it covers copyright, re-usage etc etc etc all the pitfalls and legalities you need to avoid or ensure you follow while adhering to professional standards.<br />
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<a href="http://www.the-aop.org/information/beyond-the-lens/overview#sthash.GWKoZ1h7.dpuf" target="_blank">http://www.the-aop.org/information/beyond-the-lens/overview#sthash.GWKoZ1h7.dpuf</a><br />
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<b>The Freelance Photographer's Market Handbook</b><br />
Tracy, J. (2010) <i>The Freelance Photographer's Market Handbook 2011</i> (27th Edition) London: BFP Books<br />
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I didn't buy this to be honest I looked at the reviews which told me<br />
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<i>The Freelance Photographer's Market Handbook 2013 contains around 1,000 listings aimed at helping photographers earn cash from their photos. The 29th edition lists the type of pictures sought by specialist, trade and consumer magazines, along with fees paid.A BFP spokesman adds: ‘The Handbook also contains invaluable articles on approaching markets, as well as many hints and tips to help the freelance and aspiring freelance photographer sell their work.'</i><br />
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Which if I were wanting to sell to magazines would be really, really useful. For the assignments I shot I identified my market, gained positive feedback from the shoots and contacts for future events but I will bear this publication in mind should I wish to venture down this route.<br />
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<b>The Photography Reader</b><br />
Wells,E. (2002) <i>The Photography Reader</i>. London: Routledge<br />
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The text provided with the course materials that you have to read to be able to complete some of the exercises, I found it an invaluable source of academic writings etc which I found informative as well as really helpful when writing my critical review.<br />
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As the editor Liz Wells remarks in her introduction, this book is "concerned with histories of ideas about photography". The book is crammed full of readings in critical theory of photography, and therefore appears to be concerned more with history, sociology, semiotics, aesthetics, and epistemology. ( the study of knowledge and justified belief. As the study of knowledge, epistemology is concerned with the following questions: What are the necessary and sufficient conditions of knowledge? What are its sources? What is its structure, and what are its limits? As the study of justified belief, epistemology aims to answer questions such as: How we are to understand the concept of justification? What makes justified beliefs justified? Is justification internal or external to one's own mind?)<br />
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<a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/" target="_blank">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/</a><br />
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On further investigation all of the works in the book seem to be created after 1930 and include the writings of Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag and Umberto Eco.<br />
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The book is divided into several sections, each dealing with a set aspect of photographic critical theory. It is a which book covers a number of subjects in critical theory, such as photography and postmodernism, where several authors explain what the postmodern is in photography...did I get it...I'm still not totally convinced ;oD<br />
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Many of the essays in this book were tricky to read and I had to reread most of them, underlining the obvious statements that struck a chord, made a point I understood, needed to explore further or wanted to quote. I think this book tied in well with <i>Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images</i> in understanding what it was some of the authors had to say, why they were saying it and the result was a broadening of my knowledge. It introduced me to other writers and photographers some of whom I incorporated into my critical review.<br />
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As I say tricky in parts to interpret but worth the effort in the end.<br />
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<b>Photography: A Critical Introduction</b><br />
Wells, E. (2009) <i>Photography: A Critical Introduction.</i> Oxford: Routledge<br />
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This book is described as an introduction to the theory of photography with each chapter introducing a specific field of photography, most helpfully it also points you in the direction of further reading, research and resources. The blurb states:<br />
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<i>This revised and updated fourth edition examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts. New and improved sections include: key concepts, biographies of major thinkers, and seminal references; a full glossary of terms, comprehensive bibliography and new chapter abstracts; updated resource information, including guides to public archives and useful websites.</i><br />
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And it does exactly what it says on the tin, but again not as yet read it from cover to cover, and in a quick review not going to give a blow by blow account of every chapter, borrowed from a friend and now returned it is a book I think I will have to invest in as it does put things over simply and has that wealth of further reading.....be interesting to hear other people views on these books.....<br />
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<br />Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-53266041597132700332014-05-05T04:57:00.001-07:002014-05-05T09:10:05.816-07:00Digital printing workflowHaving decided that I would print some of my assignments I thought it best to check my digital workflow. I have printed my own images for a while now, but unsure if I am following the best practice, what I find acceptable may in fact not be for assessment purposes. The more research you do, the more opinions you listen to the more confused I become....so in order to sort myself out I have done some MORE research....<br />
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From images taken to actually being printed the percentage is very low, blame this on the advent of digital photo sharing on the web.<br />
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The final print is the culmination of a lot of variables being brought together on a particular<br />
paper at a particular size. It has become apparent that as with most things photographic sometimes compromise is necessary and although there are no real hard and fast rules there are ‘good practises’.<br />
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Obviously there will be some form of disparity in cameras, lenses, software, printers and print<br />
media owned and prefered before even touching on the subject matter which is to be printed. Probably best at the beginning would be to make brief notes on what I try in case I don't remember what was done and what to revisit some of the decisions made.<br />
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<b>Hardware set-up, initial adjustment of file and preparation for printing </b><br />
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Monitors will vary, offering a wider gamut of colours and higher contrast, and the price you pay will vary accordingly.Irrespective of the monitor specs, computer and monitor should to be calibrated using a monitor profiling device that sits on the monitor. This needs repeating regularly and I use a Spyder Express 3, following the manufacturers guidelines as to brightness and temperature. I do find that my prints are a little dark following these guidelines so so turn the brightness of my screen down.<br />
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<b>Printer set-up </b><br />
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Personal printers are now very capable, reliable devices which offer high level results. Make sure you check basic things like Nozzle Alignment, ad do this on the paper you are going to use. It might sound like an extravagance but paper thickness is important.<br />
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Make sure you use the correct ICC profiles for your printer and papers on which you are printing. Most paper manufacturers now supply ready made ICC profiles and stipulate the driver settings for the more popular printer models. My printers are fairly basic in reality and therefore I tend to stick with the same paper manufacturer/printer, in this case Epson and use the profiles for the different papers that are pre-set.<br />
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Printers and monitors will struggle to reproduce all of the theoretical colours but there are ways around this called the "rendering intent or mode." This is the way in which colours in an image are portrayed. ‘Perceptual’ and ‘Relative Colormetric’ for example are 2 of the rendering intents are ones to be found when I go to print.The majority of ICC profile settings require setting the output software such as Photoshop to ‘No color management’ setting. Apparently "the golden rule is to replicate whichever settings were used<br />
for making the ICC printer profile and save them as a preset. Also pay attention to correctly setting ‘Black point compensation’ and ‘Simulate paper white’ to the appropriate options"<br />
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<b>Getting prints made by a company</b><br />
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If I intend to have prints made by a third party it is imperative that I understand the settings<br />
used by them so I get a better match. I should ask for a download of the printer profile, details of the colour space used, native resolution for files and whether they sharpen or if I am expected to apply the output sharpening.<br />
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<b>Initial adjustment of file </b><br />
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Having taken the photograph picture and uploaded it to my PC the basic adjustments are done to get it looking right. I use Adobe Bridge to upload,Photoshop and RAW for processing. Advice seems to be to use is to use a large colour space such as ProPhoto RGB or Adobe (RGB) 1998 although my first tutor said the 16 bit ProPhoto was probably too large a space and not needed as my monitor wouldn't show the whole gamut. I agree but thinking ahead if I ever got an all singing all dancing monitor would I not wish I had saved better files?<br />
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10 basic adjustments in rough order<br />
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<li>Exposure - exposure compensation, highlight/shadow recovery</li>
<li>Noise Reduction - during RAW development or using external software</li>
<li>Lens Corrections - distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberrations</li>
<li>Detail - capture sharpening and local contrast enhancement</li>
<li>Contrast - black point, levels and curves tools</li>
<li>Framing - straighten and crop</li>
<li>Refinements - color adjustments and selective enhancments</li>
<li>Resizing - enlarge for a print or downsize for the web or email</li>
<li>Sharpening - customized for your subject matter and print/screen size</li>
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<b>Sharpening</b><br />
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When Capture sharpening, the file should be viewed at 100%.<br />
A useful article here about advanced selective sharpening in RAW<br />
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<a href="http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2014/01/06/advanced-sharpening-tips-for-photoshop-feathers-and-fur/" target="_blank">http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2014/01/06/advanced-sharpening-tips-for-photoshop-feathers-and-fur/</a><br />
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Soft proofing - I have never really known what was meant by softproofing. Is it something I do but don't know what its called? From good old Luminous Landscape</div>
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<i>The holy grail of digital printing is to be able to get the image that you print to appear as close as possible to what your screen displays. The first ingredient in this quest is to ensure that your screen is properly profiled. This was once a mysterious and expensive prospect, but now most experienced photographers understand that they need to buy a colorimeter for a hundred dollars or so, and profile their screen on a regular basis.</i></div>
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<i>Of course the second step is to print using accurate profiles. These may be available from your printer or paper maker. Preferably you should have custom profiles made for your printer, your paper and your inks. Unless you frequently switch papers this isn't terribly expensive to have done. There are quite a few services online that will do this for you. The best profiles though are likely ones that you make yourself, but this requires spending at least $1,000 and involves the purchase of a spectrophotometer and accompanying software. For anyone using different printers and testing new papers as they come out, this ultimately ends up not being that big an expense.</i></div>
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<i>Regardless of where the profiles come from though, using them is a must for any serious printing.</i></div>
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<i>But, even with a proper profile for your particular screen, as well as printer / paper / ink combinations, many photographers are often disappointed with the results. What appears on screen simply doesn't match what is seen on the print, especially with regard to colour intensity and saturation.</i></div>
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<i>Soft proofing is simply a mechanism that allows you to view on your computer monitor what your print will look like when it is on paper. A specific paper. That paper and ink combination has been defined by the profile that you or someone else has made for your printer / paper and ink combination. When a printer profile is made the colour of the paper is one of the factors that is figured into the profile, because the spectrophotometer is reading the combination of the ink, and the paper that lies beneath it.</i></div>
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<i>So, if you were able to view your image through the printer profile, you would be able to see how that particular combination of ink and paper would reproduce it, taking into account the gamut as well as other characteristics of the inks used.</i></div>
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Odd notes....<br />
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<a href="http://www.bairarteditions.com/pages/tutorials/epsonprinting/resolution.html" target="_blank">http://www.bairarteditions.com/pages/tutorials/epsonprinting/resolution.html</a><br />
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<b>PPI vs. DPI</b><br />
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PPI ( usually written in lowercase ppi) and dp are two similar concepts, but are still different.<br />
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Pixels per inch denotes how many pixels are in each inch of your image at the current printing size. If your image has 360 ppi, for every inch of your image, it is 360 pixels wide and one pixel tall.<br />
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Most of us like to think in terms of square inches (two dimensions). Resolution, however is usually given in one dimension. For a reference, 360 ppi can be understood in two dimensions as 360 x 360 pixels per square inch.<br />
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Optimal Base Resolution (ppi)<br />
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Again, base resolution means the pixels per inch that exist in a digital file without any *interpolation.<br />
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In computer terms this generically is any "guessing" the computer does to create extra pixels or color information that wasn't there to begin with by looking at the existing pixels and color schematics as a basis for filling in the blanks.<br />
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Epson<br />
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<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vgnQ1eZTwDUC&pg=PT6&lpg=PT6&dq=epson+digital+print+workflow&source=bl&ots=Cby6_gplNx&sig=LUAUkdaPlCKSvuBW-k8sp8a6AcI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PnZnU5nMOsOK7Ab1oYHwBg&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=epson%20digital%20print%20workflow&f=false" target="_blank">http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vgnQ1eZTwDUC&pg=PT6&lpg=PT6&dq=epson+digital+print+workflow&source=bl&ots=Cby6_gplNx&sig=LUAUkdaPlCKSvuBW-k8sp8a6AcI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PnZnU5nMOsOK7Ab1oYHwBg&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=epson%20digital%20print%20workflow&f=false</a><br />
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<a href="http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321908452/samplepages/0321908457.pdf" target="_blank">http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321908452/samplepages/0321908457.pdf</a><br />
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<br />Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-91537247501837003192014-04-27T02:56:00.000-07:002014-06-07T07:19:02.993-07:00Assignment Three A photographic commission reworkedAs mentioned before in my feedback post on the whole I received very positive feedback. I had completed the supporting document in a rush as I left it until the very last minute before sending it off, a mix of not feeling confident in the images and putting my head in the sand as the deadline approached and feeling generally ughhhh about doing anything constructive anywhere in my life. This feeling continues on and off so here I am rushing to make sure everything is ready to post off very soon! Things have been completed but left hanging so am now tying them up so they aren't.<br />
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Having used Thomas Struth and Candida Hofer as influences, both photographing historical architecture, their large interiors and using tripods and digital cameras I didn't note any of this down. This has now been amended within my feedback post here <a href="http://janfairburnoca.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/assignment-three-feedback.html" target="_blank">http://janfairburnoca.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/assignment-three-feedback.html</a><br />
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I also completed much research not noted , slaps wrists, but this has also been updated. See,I do the work but then don't prove it....<br />
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I think you can see the influences of both within some of my shots, however I did want to try and take a few more without people in, even though they were taken deliberately with them to give an idea of perspective and scale. Bearing this is mind I attended another open day, getting there at the very end so most people had already left. Decision was made to become a friend of Crossness, which gives you access time outside of open days, as I think it will be a brilliant place to document as the improvements and alterations are gradually made.<br />
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These were the images I chose from the shoot as being first selects, I then had to decided if they would integrate into my original layout. Whilst I thought some of them were better images I wasn't sure if they would help tell the narrative or were too similar to shots already included. So for better or for worse I have decided to replace this image ........................................................with this.......</div>
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This was one of the harder choices to make. The reasons for the decision though are as follows:</div>
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<li>it is more in keeping with having no people in the shot</li>
<li>it gives a better idea of the space and scale of the building</li>
<li>it contains a lot of detail the more you look at it, the vents in the floors, the open iron work upper floor, the colourful screens in the distance, columns, stairs and the restoration work as an ongoing process</li>
<li>you can see the contrast between the old and the new tantalisingly peeking out in the distance</li>
<li>although I was really pleased with the long exposure effect of the original I am not convinced it is something you would find within a magazine article</li>
<li>the different lighting conditions on the final shoot gave a colder feel and I think it contrasts well against the larger image it is placed against on the spread, warmer tones full of people, colder tones for an empty industrial space.</li>
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reasons for keeping the original of personally liking it, well that isn't good enough when thinking about a clients needs, it is the only shot I have showing an image from a high perspective, it does effectively show the ornate screens but then some of the other images I have also show the decorative paint work. Therefore it was a done deal.</div>
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At first I had anticipated re-shooting the original shot without people but sadly on the day this was impossible as the Trust had set up huge 6ft tall visitor information boards across the space, Proving you have to be flexible in this business! Although I loved the symmetry of the columns and the contrast you can see between the new and the old, the blurry people are too distracting. I thought this at the time but didn't have that many shots to choose from when completing the original assignment. However the bonus of attending the open day at the closing stages was that I got to see them venting the steam from the engines, other images show the columns and the ironwork but none have the movement of the steam and eerie spectral atmosphere it provided. This is was Crossness is all about, the steam engines, so as part of a narrative it had to be used.</div>
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Looking at the other shots I don't think any of them should be replaced, I think I have a better mix of people/non people shots, including them to show perspective and the heritage site as a magnet for interested tourists and other photographers documenting this historical building. I did however decide that the large image on the final spread would change to it's original colour. I think the brown sepia tones give it as much of a historical feel as does the black and white and it means it is in keeping with the rest of the article.</div>
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I welcomed the positive constructive criticisms and questions raised. They made me look again at my work and consider how I could alter it to improve the final assignment. Hopefully I have addressed each issue, and justified my decisions where changes were made or not. Attending the last open day ensured I could obtain some different images which still told the narrative of the place. I am pleased with the final result and you have to stop tweaking bits eventually.....</div>
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Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-58057069734504945542014-02-09T11:59:00.000-08:002014-06-01T01:33:06.187-07:00Assignment 5 Rochester Christmas Festival December 2013 FeedbackI received my feedback a while ago but have not got around to blogging my response, although I did post on the Tutor Feedback page. Firstly, thanks to Keith for being so prompt with the response even though it was during the Christmas New Year break and secondly for the positive feedback.<br />
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It included a breakdown of how the assessment will be marked, Technical/Visual Skills, Quality of Outcome, Demonstration of Creativity and Context. This is useful because I can check that I have met each bullet point and in re-working each assignment (as and where necessary) ensure getting the best marks possible.<br />
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The feedback, as I say, was positive with comments such as it being a "strong submission" which was "comprehensive" with "strong technical considerations" and benefited from the numerous related activities. I had chosen a "worthy practitioner" in Tony Ray-Jones and research of his images and approach will have contributed to the success of images captured. Keith was also pleased with my marketing aspect and the fact I had managed to get feedback from some of my subjects.<br />
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It was emphasised that before the CAPTURE stage of an image we have to plan, research, think about equipment and even when we get to the capture stage still have to pause while we think about composition, exposure, focus etc we have to THINK then capture. I think that the more I photograph the more the thinking part becomes a more natural process, knowing what aperture or shutter speed will get a certain result is a bonus, especially when photographing shifting scenes within an event.<br />
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Keith also pointed out that it is important to end with a print and on seeing my notes on here with regards to a Silverprint Portfolio/Archival box strongly recommended this.<br />
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Both my first and second selects were said to "convey the essence" of the festival and got close to the action. All shots showed "technical competence" but I was reminded to think about the context backgrounds can add when composing shots. I agree that some of the shots could have been improved with a different background but as it was a chaotic event it was not always possible to ask subjects to move. Although I decided not to replace any of the shots, and obviously I cannot re-shoot them, I have amended a handful, cropping a little more, adjusting bright spots or removing distracting elements so the backgrounds blend more with the subjects.<br />
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Again by using different layers I increased the background blur very subtly, also reduced the brightness of the background. Not sure what was in the bottom left corner but I cloned it out and the very bright blue jacket was altered in colour. I don't know why I didn't spot how glaring it was before!<br />
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A very simple adjustment to darken the bright spot on the right hand side seems to make all the difference, the balance of the whole image alters.<br />
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Simply a closer crop. I think it makes the background look busier, giving the correct impression of how popular the festival is. I also think having a closer crop on the main subject is better.<br />
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If taking the "serious" photojournalistic approach images should not be manipulated at all, thinking to the recent scandals of press awards and prizes being revoked<br />
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<a href="http://www.popphoto.com/news/2012/11/landscape-photographer-has-award-revoked-excessive-editing" target="_blank">http://www.popphoto.com/news/2012/11/landscape-photographer-has-award-revoked-excessive-editing</a><br /><a href="http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=005kyb" target="_blank">http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=005kyb</a><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jan/20/wolf-wildlife-photographer-award-stripped" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jan/20/wolf-wildlife-photographer-award-stripped</a><br /><br />
or not...<br /><a href="http://www.americanphotomag.com/article/2013/05/experts-confirm-integrity-2013-world-press-photo-contest-winner" target="_blank">http://www.americanphotomag.com/article/2013/05/experts-confirm-integrity-2013-world-press-photo-contest-winner</a><br />
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but as I am not going to enter such prizes and am also thinking of the aesthetics of the final result I felt cloning out distracting elements was fine. Initially I though the boot in the corner partially added to the narrative, she was sitting next to her older brother, helped illustrate a larger crowd, but then I decided it was distracting so removed it.<br />
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Getting back to feedback... Keith finally commented on my log/essays: he thought my blog works well, "crammed full of practice and research" and was easy to navigate.<br />
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In view of the positive feedback for Assignment 5 I don't think I will have any amendments apart from the above.<br />
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All I have to do now is get ready for submission. I elected for the July assessment as I want to completely redo assignment 1, check thoroughly all previous assignments, make sure all exhibition and book reviews are entered on my blog, check that my physical log is annotated rather than just a random selection of postcards/leaflets/brochures. I didn't want to do this in a rush, plus I am kicking my son through AS coursework which is taking up some of my time!<br />
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Thanks to everyone who reads my posts, thanks to those who comment and for your support, without which I wouldn't have got to the end of this course.Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-85269891258185618182013-12-26T05:35:00.001-08:002014-06-01T07:21:43.604-07:00Assignment 5 Rochester Christmas Festival December 2013Finally I got there!!<br />
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The Rochester Christmas Festival 2013 included several events beginning with a Dickensian Costume sale on the 9 November followed by a parade and the switching on of the Christmas Lights on 16 November, a Christmas Market set up in the Castle grounds running every weekend from Saturday, 30 November to Sunday, 15 December with the Dickensian Christmas Festival happening on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December. It was my intention to capture the atmosphere, entertainment and events of the whole lead up to the Dickensian Christmas Festival to hopefully showcase the fun that the vendors and organisers have bringing this event to life as much as the spectators have watching and participating in it. Whilst capturing this event I had to be mindful of the shot list: key moments, preparations, behind the scenes, wide establishing shots, telephoto, close-up detail and spectator reaction shots. The shoot had to be conducted in a professional manner with the intention of possibly offering the final images for possible publication for example to the local newspaper - the online edition offers images for view and sale to the general public - and Medway council who use images to promote the events both online and in the physical publication of leaflets and brochures.<br />
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Having been to the <i>Only in England</i> exhibition showing photographs from Martin Parr and Tony Ray-Jones and looking through Parr's book <i>The Non-Conformists</i> showed me how English at leisure and attending special occasions could be photographed. Most of Parr's and Ray-Jones' subjects were captured unaware and often each person was looking in a different direction. Both photographers filled the frame as much as possible leaving very little or no negative space. I hoped to take inspiration from these photographers to complete my final assignment. I loved the notes on Tony Ray-Jones' approach and adopted it like a mantra<br />
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<li>Be more assertive</li>
<li>Get more involved</li>
<li>Stay with the subject matter</li>
<li>Take simpler pictures</li>
<li>See if everything in the background relates to the subject matter</li>
<li>Vary compositions or angles more</li>
<li>Don't take boring pictures</li>
<li>Get in closer</li>
<li>Watch camera shake</li>
<li>Don't shoot too much</li>
<li>Not all eye level</li>
<li>No middle distance</li>
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Sounds easy (she laughs) in total I took over 600 shots (so much for don't shoot much!) uploaded using Adobe Bridge and a metadata template. Quite a few were easily rejected due to poor framing, poor focus or not being of anything interesting. I completed 3 rounds of selection and whittled them down to just over 60.<br />
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After further editing and close examination I finally had my first select images, between 12-20 plus a further 20+ second select images. I followed the following workflow:</div>
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Uploaded with Adobe Bridge - applied metadata template<br />
Discarded obvious rejects<br />
Named/Dated images<br />
Archived to hard-drive and portable disc drive<br />
Chose first and second selects using star rating system</div>
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Caption/add information as required embedded in the IPTC data</div>
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Processed selects in Raw adjusting exposure, dust spots, clarity, chromatic aberration, white balance if necessary<br />
Processed in Adobe Photoshop, cropping, cloning out small distractions using an adjustment layer, any further tweaks using curve layer </div>
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Prepare marketable package - as I had not approached a publication prior to the shoot I did not have a remit to follow, however research has shown publishers/editors like to receive Hi-Res jpegs either by email or on a disc. Some are happy to use downloads from specific sites as long as the images are Hi-Res and speaking to Simon Wakeman who deals with the marketing for Medway Council these were the methods he said they preferred. Some prefer images sent to not be sharpened so images for display would be sharpened whilst images to be sent would not be.</div>
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Rochester High Street Christmas Lights<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">A peaceful Rochester High Street, after the crowds have dispersed, with colourful lights and adorned shop fronts.</td></tr>
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The first weekend of festivities kicked of this year with a small Dickensian Parade, street dancing and stage entertainment compared by Heart FM's Neil Kefford, culminating in the switching on of the Rochester High Street Lights.<br />
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20mm f8 ISO100 2.5 secs tripod and shutter cable release - Wide angle establishing shot taken from a low perspective this image captures the colours and atmosphere of Rochester High Street at this festive time of year, The street lights form an implied triangle whilst the diagonally festooned Christmas lights lead the eye across and into the picture. A busy image, there is interest in every area of the frame. f8 has allowed for a good depth of field and sharp detail.<br />
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All the Fun of the Fair<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Evening entertainment as a traditional fun fair is set up in Rochester Castle Grounds</td></tr>
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Various market stalls under canvas marquees offered visitors a wide a selection of gifts, souvenirs and novelty stocking fillers, a traditional family fun fair and refreshment stalls complimented the festive atmosphere.<br />
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20mm f14 ISO100 1.6 secs- Wide angle establishing shot taken from a low perspective and a slow shutter speed to capture the movement of the Ferris wheel the absence of the crowds at this point build the anticipation of the fun to be had in the coming weeks. The direction of the horses lead the eye into the centre of the frame. There is very little negative space and the dark sky offers a contrast to the bright lights of the carousel. f14 has given a good depth of field and sharp detail.<br />
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The Seven Poor Travellers’ Procession<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Shirley Goodhew, organiser of the Seven Poor Travellers' Procession carves Christmas dinner for the deserving poor of Rochester</td></tr>
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The parades and processions began with The Seven Poor Travellers’ Procession at 11am which set off from outside the Guildhall Museum along the high street to the Six Poor Travellers’ House. The turkey was carved and a selection of vegetables, Christmas pudding and mince pies were offered to the "deserving poor" of Rochester.<br />
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55mm f2.8 ISO400 1/320 - close up detail, shot from low perspective, f2.8 gives shallow depth of field giving attention to the action of carving the turkey, the knife provides a diagonal leading the eye to the centre of the frame, the holly adds the detail indicating Christmas. Everything in the background relates to the subject.<br />
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Enjoying Mince Pies<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Tucking into mince pies from the Seven Poor Travellers Christmas Dinner</td></tr>
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The tradition of this procession is based upon a writing by Charles Dickens which can be found online as part of the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1392/1392-h/1392-h.htm" target="_blank">Gutenburg Project</a><br />
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30mm f2.8 ISO400 1/60 - spectator shot, close up of a young girl enjoying her free mince pie, her vibrant red coat making her stand out from the crowd, her bent arm leads the eye down the frame to her younger sibling also tucking into a Christmas treat. Background emphasises the crowds.<br />
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Fun in the Snow<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"> Fun and photo opportunities for all the generations thanks to The Snowboy Snow truck.</td></tr>
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The organisers of the Rochester Festival do their utmost to create a wonderful, wintry, Christmas atmosphere and therefore arrange fake snow in selected areas of the High Street. The main system used is a SnowStorm snow truck from Snowboy, www.snowboy.co.uk, which you can see in operation in this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnP9EJTsgLs" target="_blank">YouTube</a> video.<br />
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52mm f2.8 ISO400 1/200 - spectator and wide establishing shot, fake snow adding to the fun, vibrant red hoodie catches the eye, the child's outstretched arm leading your eye into the centre of the frame where you then notice the camera and eye contact between the subjects which takes your eye around the frame. The snow adds movement and interest to the photograph and helps narrate the event. The Christmas balloons in soft focus in the background echo the colour of the hoodie and relate to the narrative of the set. A busy image with no negative space the crowds in the distance show how hectic it was.<br />
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Street Entertainment - City of Rochester Pipe Band<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Anne Reed from the City of Rochester Pipe Band resting her swinging drum sticks, with crochet covers, on her tenor drum</td></tr>
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The City of Rochester Pipe Band was originally formed in 1978 as the Maidstone Pipe Band and changed to its current name in 1995. The Pipe Band, wearing MacDougall tartan, led the Main Parade both days as well as playing a few sets along the High Street.<br />
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55mm f2.8 ISO400 1/250 - street entertainment preparation, close detail, showing a different viewpoint from the usual wide angle shot of the band marching, shot from low perspective. Taken while the band were preparing for a set in the High Street before the main parade. Diagonal lines of the drum and sticks lead the eye across the frame the shallow depth of field suggesting the other members of the band.<br />
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Street Entertainment - Bishop Gundulf Morris Men Novice Side<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Outside Rochester Cathedral, Kay Foreman leads the Bishop Gundulf Morris men Novices to entertain the crowds </td></tr>
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Bishop Gundulf' Morris Men have a Novice team of dancers. The Novices side has both boys and girls as members, with ages ranging from 3-16 years old. They dance all styles of Morris dances and country dances.The novices foreman is Kay Anderson, and practices are held every Thursday during term time.<br />
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17mm f2.8 ISO400 1/800 - key moment, street entertainment. A dull overcast day provided soft diffused light but meant without using flash I had to opt for a higher ISO in order to have a fast enough shutter speed to avoid motion blur. Taken from a low perspective meant I was at the same height as the children as they ducked under the raised arms of the others. The raised linked arms give different levels of interest and create movement around the frame, the girl glancing back on the left also takes your eye back into the frame. The circle of children frame the spectators. The background relates to the subject matter implying the location and setting of the event.<br />
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Street Entertainment - Seven Dials Rapscallions<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">The Mistletoe seller offering kisses didn't get many takers with his set of stained, crooked teeth</td></tr>
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The Seven Dials Rapscallions are a theatre group which portrays characters living the side of Victorian life that is invariably overlooked. the 'down and dirty'. They go to extraordinary lengths to achieve a high standard of authenticity which makes them stand out against other Victorian portrayals bringing these people and their lives to the fore through a passionate interest in historical interpretation and interaction with the public.<br />
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20mm f2.8 ISO800 1/25 - portrait and establishing shot. A substantial part of the Dickensian weekend revolves around the Dickensian characters who set up stalls, provide entertainment and wander amongst the crowds, their attention to detail with costumes and props add to the authenticity of the event. The shallow depth of field makes you concentrate on the main subject but the background detail of antique street lighting and Christmas stalls aid with the narrative.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Ali King from Seven Dials Rapscallions, portrays Victorian married life as her alter ego Mrs Grimes</td></tr>
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The Seven Dials Rapscallions are a theatre group which portrays characters living the side of Victorian life that is invariably overlooked. the 'down and dirty'. They go to 'extraordinary lengths to achieve a high standard of authenticity' which makes them stand out against other Victorian portrayals bringing these people and their lives to the fore through a 'passionate interest in historical interpretation and interaction with the public.' Seven Dials was originally laid out by Thomas Neale, MP in the early 1690's. Unfortunately, the area failed to establish itself as Neale hoped and deteriorated into a slum, renowned for its gin shops. Dickens, in "Sketches by Boz" wrote "The stranger who finds himself in the Dials for the first time...at the entrance of Seven obscure passages, uncertain which to take, will see enough around him to keep his curiosity awake for no inconsiderable time..."<br />
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31mm f2.8 ISO400 1/160 - portrait and establishing shot. A substantial part of the Dickensian weekend revolves around the Dickensian characters who set up stalls, provide entertainment and wander amongst the crowds, their attention to detail with props and costumes add to the authenticity of the event. The chosen background with subdued colours makes sure you concentrate on the main subject and the Victorian building is in keeping with the era. A fairly static image the characters facial expression, costume and make-up show how life was hard for the family lifestyle the actor was portraying.<br />
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Street Entertainment - Rich Nairn<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Caricaturist Rich Nairn offers to sketch you "as were" or in an imaginary Victorian costume if you so wish </td></tr>
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Rich Nairn AKA The Artful Doodler is available for hire for events and private functions. For street events he works in black and white but for longer sittings he works in colour. A link to his webpage is <a href="http://www.theartfuldoodler.co.uk/TheArtfulDoodler/Home.html" target="_blank">here</a>. On the day he was charging £5 a portrait.<br />
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55mm f4 ISO400 1/640 - close detail of entertainment/service provided for the spectator, large aperture subtly blurring the background so the viewer concentrates on the portrait detail. Taken from a low perspective. The background relates to the subject matter, hinting at the children he was sketching.<br />
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Street Entertainment - Rochester Lamplighter<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Keith Beckford climbs his ladder, adopts his alter ego, William Tompkins Lamplighter, to sing about "Getting a bit Tonight!</td></tr>
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Keith Beckford joined the ranks of Right Royal Revels, The Fabulous Fezheads, Dizzy O'Dare's stiltwalkers and Hobo Christmas Carollers, Skinner Rats, Seven Dials Rapscallions, Allcock and Brown plus many more for the delectation and delight of the spectators at the weekend festival. He had the crowd laughing and joining the chorus.<br />
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45mm f2.8 ISO400 1/250 - street entertainment- another Dickensian character capturing the Victorian era and the event. This portrait shot capture the attention to detail and mannerisms of the Lamplighter. Background details indicates that the subject is on a ladder on a level with the shop frontage.<br />
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The Crowds - Carol Singing<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Taking a break from offering the King's shilling, in the form of chocolate coins, a young soldier exhorts the crowd to join MidKent College Performing Arts students in singing Carols.</td></tr>
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55mm f2.8 ISO800 1/200 - spectator shot, wide establishing shot - taken from a high vantage point which enables the viewer to take in the way the characters mingle with the crowd and realise how busy the festival is. The background has many small details which, after the initial observation of the main subject, the viewer begins to pick out, the smiling faces, the small girl framed between the Dickensian characters, the spectator just out of shot filming or photographing the entertainment and the way the red and yellow carrier bag echoes the red and yellow of the soldiers uniform whilst on the right hand side of the frame the incidental colour seems to be predominantly burgundy.<br />
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The Crowds - enjoying the street vendors wares<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Hungry spectators take advantage as restaurants and shops are licensed to set up food stalls outside</td></tr>
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40mm f4 ISO400 1/250 - wide establishing shot showing an example of the food stall set up outside, the green items of clothing, table cloth and other background items provided a limited colour palette, the outstretched arms suggest movement and lead your eye across the frame, all the people appear to be focusing on the food, the steam rising and the shallow depth of field emphasise the main focal point of the hot noodles.<br />
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The Crowds - loving the entertainment<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Outside Rochester Library Chloe, from South Croydon, gets into Robert Styles' Punch & Judy Show.</td></tr>
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55mm f2.8 ISO400 1/250 - spectator reaction - zoom lens allowed for close up reaction to a young spectator enjoying the Punch & Judy show. Taken from a low perspective, the green jacket in the background is similar in tone to the grass which helps frame the main subject while the child's gloves and coat behind echo the colours of the main focal point.<br />
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Candlelit Parade<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Darcey and John collect their lamp and wait by the Christmas Tree for the Candlelit Parade which ends in a Carol Concert outside Rochester Castle</td></tr>
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24mm f2.8 ISO800 speedlight used 1/25 - key moment - the Candlelit parade. Using the Christmas tree as a backdrop the fairy lights frame the subjects, a Speedlite was employed with flash exposure compensation used and the bounce card which resulted in a more natural light.<br />
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Conclusion of first select images<br />
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I worked very hard to make sure that I adopted the approach written down by Tony Ray-Jones. As with any photographic shoot some you win, some you lose, progressing throughout the project I did find myself becoming more assertive, speaking to people, asking them to pose in certain areas, with the unaware shots I was less apprehensive about holding my camera up and shooting, which was made a lot easier by the nature of this event, many people were taking photographs and had larger cameras so I blended in. Compositions were varied with different levels and viewpoints, with backgrounds relating to the subject matter. The final 15 images chosen capture the various characters and key events happening throughout the festival. When shooting parades and street events you have to be very quick in spotting the action or following the crowds to where you think the action might be. It is very easy to miss a shot which cannot be recreated, this was quite frustrating. Covering several events allowed me to used different lighting techniques which I have enjoyed exploring and intend to continue to work on my use of flash and long exposure. Although my preference is for using ambient light this is not always possible or practical. Selecting and editing from such a large pool was also a challenge and thinking beyond personal preference and having to consider a photo-story or newspaper article gave a different perspective on which images to choose. This is why it is important to be able to offer a publisher/editor a high quality set of first selects which can be cropped to fit a set layout and a set of second selects which could tell the narrative to fit their publication. The majority of my first selects could be cropped square or changed from landscape to portrait etc whilst retaining enough of the subject matter. If aiming for publication in a local newspaper the speed at which you deliver your images is of the utmost importance and this may impact upon the selection, if some photographs need more post production it is likely they will not make the first select. After shooting the final weekend I came down with the flu bug doing the rounds which hampered the speed of my editing; looking at pictures with a splitting headache and aching eyes does not work and I was in bed for 4 days! As a professional I would have had to carry on regardless and I do not envy professional photojournalists working to tight deadlines. In conclusion I think the final selected images capture the feel of the event, are informative, work together as a body of work with a coherent narrative and reflect the inspiration of Tony Ray-Jones.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">The Worshipful Mayor of Medway, Cllr Josie Iles heads the main parade behind the City of Rochester Pipe Band</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">The Fabulous Fezheads show more than Christmas spirit as they parade down the High Street</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Alan Lonsdale attends several Christmas events throughout Essex and Kent spreading Christmas cheer with his colourful display of Christmas Cards</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Hobo Christmas Carollers Kristian Hart and Niall Costigan of Dizzy O'Dares serenade passersby</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Various Dickens characters mingle with and pose for delighted onlookers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Street Theatre group Seven Dials Rapscallions re-enacted Victorian "down and dirty" living conditions outside Eastgate House, setting for Dickens novel Edwin Drood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Street Theatre group Seven Dials Rapscallions re-enacted Victorian "down and dirty" living conditions outside Eastgate House, setting for Dickens novel Edwin Drood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Street Theatre group Seven Dials Rapscallions re-enacted Victorian "down and dirty" living conditions outside Eastgate House, setting for Dickens novel Edwin Drood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John, part of a Dickensian Society poses in St Mary's Meadow, Rochester Cathedral</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">John and Mary Allchin, part of a Dickensian Society pose in St Mary's Meadow Rochester Cathedral</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Getting costumes perfect before the main parade</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Malcolm Hearne as the Ghost of Christmas Past</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Charles Dickens raises as toast after reading the tale of The Seven Poor Travellers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Robert Styles' Punch & Judy never fails to capture the attention of the younger spectators</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Food stalls tempt Christmas shoppers with their fare against an impressive backdrop of Rochester Castle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parade participants take great care over the smallest of details</td></tr>
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My overall conclusion is that working as a photojournalist to professional standards is quite tricky. Not only do you have to think about taking the photographs but all the background information that goes with it. The research of the events, marketing etc. Unlike a more formal setting events happen very quickly and for the most part are out of your control. You have to take into consideration quite a few contingency plans whilst also travelling light and be prepared to follow the action and be flexible in your approach. Images are not being shot for personal tastes but aimed at a specific market and shot lists must be adhered to. It is of vital importance to make sure there is a market out there for your work or secure a client beforehand. Selection and editing must be completed in a short time frame and to tight deadlines with first and second selects chosen and delivered to an agreed method and standard.<br />
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I feel my first selects meet the remit of the assignment of covering an event and my own personal targets of using different lighting techniques, perspectives and composition whilst taking inspiration from Tony Ray-Jones. The second selects either show more examples of subject matter already covered in the first set i.e. different character portraits, spectator reaction shots, close details, or different aspects such as the celebrities, stalls set up near the castle and from the parade itself therefore offer an editor choices. Choosing the second selects was possibly harder than the first.</div>
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Many of my shots taken with flash did not work well at all and I found I was experimenting as I went along. Fortunately a few did come out but it has highlighted the need for more exploration into using flash both during the day and at night if I intend to cover events needing artificial lighting. On a personal note I prefer my shots to be as uncluttered as possible and feel this probably influenced shot selection, however on looking at some of the professional online news articles, images with random heads and body parts in are used as are shots with harsh lighting and high contrast. These are still published though as they tell a narrative and it would appear that this is sometimes more important than the technical aspects/composition of the images.</div>
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My confidence has grown but I still don't know if I'd actually be happy to approach someone to ask them to pay me upfront!<br />
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*update feedback <a href="http://janfairburnoca.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/assignment-5-rochester-christmas.html" target="_blank">Here</a><br />
*update reworking - as the event was a one off I could not reshoot to rework any of the images. I had a closer look at some of the images I had dismissed but still felt that I had chosen the best ones available at the time. Being a large public event the choice of background was not always ideal and it was difficult to ask people to move. This is something I will bear in mind for future events. I took on board Keith's invaluable comments about the importance of background and used them to inform my reworking of assignment one, ensuring that the backgrounds added context to the main subject.</div>
Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-46729961999005028282013-12-23T12:20:00.000-08:002013-12-25T04:51:36.336-08:00Assignment 5 Covering an EventThe Rochester Christmas Festival 2013 included several events beginning with a Dickensian Costume sale on the 9 November followed by a parade and the switching on of the Christmas Lights on 16 November, a Christmas Market set up in the Castle grounds on Saturday, 30 November and Sunday, 1 December<br />
Friday, 6 Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December, Friday, 13, Saturday, 14 and Sunday, 15 December with the Dickensian Christmas Festival running Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December. It was my intention to capture the atmosphere, entertainment and events of the whole lead up to the Dickensian Christmas Festival to hopefully showcase the fun that the vendors and organisers have bringing this event to life as much as the spectators have watching and participating in it. Whilst capturing this event I had to be mindful of the shot list and possible publication of the images, most likely to be the local newspaper online edition which offers images for sale to the general public and Medway council who use images to promote the events both online and the physical publication of leaflets and programmes.<br />
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<a href="http://kentmessenger.newsprints.co.uk/search/bykw/p/u/0/1/dickens">http://kentmessenger.newsprints.co.uk/search/bykw/p/u/0/1/dickens</a><br />
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<a href="http://issuu.com/medwaycouncil/docs/dickensian_christmas_2013_revised">http://issuu.com/medwaycouncil/docs/dickensian_christmas_2013_revised</a><br />
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Covering all these events meant I could obtain a good selection of images fitting my shot list criteria, get to know some of the organisers and groups attending the festival, discover what parking facilities were like and do site reconnaissance.<br />
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<b>Dickensian Costume Sale 9 November</b><br />
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Final Selects of this event<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Firemans whistle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opera hat and evening coat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black beaded choker</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Epaulette detail in a military uniform</td></tr>
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The room had less natural light that I had been led to believe and not wanting to use my flash (which in hindsight I think I should have done) I used a fairly high ISO and large aperture, anticipating there being a few people there I didn't want to cause a H&S issue by using a tripod, due to this I was quite disappointed by the final results, they were a bit grainy for my taste, and I only selected a few images that may possibly get into the final event portfolio but even then only the second batch rather than the first select images.<br />
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<b>Small Dickensian Parade and Switching on of the Christmas Lights 16 November</b><br />
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First Selects<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First selects using Adobe Bridge star ratings</td></tr>
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A link to a flickr set of some of these images can be found <a href="http://flic.kr/s/aHsjMMKCSo" target="_blank">here</a> for showing on my learning log I'll include a few below:<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ffAjNGrZPVUsaeGaepRtY2o2o7RbvKkbY5niLdLJOlRfVZU_YSccy4kTwyPFJAS6JQuR3ZJUCDF1Piw4ABeSMS-JxsTL-3rzZBxwHzU7duI74Jq-j8JIRYNd0ZX1RMgti0vrgkHo3LgW/s1600/20131116_Chatham_Parade_1_0018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ffAjNGrZPVUsaeGaepRtY2o2o7RbvKkbY5niLdLJOlRfVZU_YSccy4kTwyPFJAS6JQuR3ZJUCDF1Piw4ABeSMS-JxsTL-3rzZBxwHzU7duI74Jq-j8JIRYNd0ZX1RMgti0vrgkHo3LgW/s320/20131116_Chatham_Parade_1_0018.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rochester High Street</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rochester Castle</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygdtGN7ZU3A3R814LwdP5KzEvPZN4pL0Ex3DQyAxyE2m0llMEyeSrJBM2k7VEozcq1IwbW7W7hnf0u6yJALZCdQ3zPe5rHcLIxufVXEtQkrT06_5mXnuuE6ECRK0ZbeHVOwraO_31V4a-/s1600/20131116_Chatham_Parade_1_0065.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygdtGN7ZU3A3R814LwdP5KzEvPZN4pL0Ex3DQyAxyE2m0llMEyeSrJBM2k7VEozcq1IwbW7W7hnf0u6yJALZCdQ3zPe5rHcLIxufVXEtQkrT06_5mXnuuE6ECRK0ZbeHVOwraO_31V4a-/s320/20131116_Chatham_Parade_1_0065.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Building the stage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bauble with reflection of High Street</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dickensian Character</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dickensian Character</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGhDUjDzlIgKV_wGW2KPrdOZtG3BgFZ6K4_jdPkcSBXWvLjm6o-LOARdnJ4XMj7y5K5PmljQ9lD0DDVa41mNsrtSni7VZZB47rj0ER5x29J7WCk1d_i22RvK1TqCCIUbS9rh6d0IBOJTpx/s1600/20131116_Chatham_Parade_1_0104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGhDUjDzlIgKV_wGW2KPrdOZtG3BgFZ6K4_jdPkcSBXWvLjm6o-LOARdnJ4XMj7y5K5PmljQ9lD0DDVa41mNsrtSni7VZZB47rj0ER5x29J7WCk1d_i22RvK1TqCCIUbS9rh6d0IBOJTpx/s320/20131116_Chatham_Parade_1_0104.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parade</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parade</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Onlookers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Street entertainment</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack Sparrow look-a-like and magician</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collection for Rotary Santa Fun Run</td></tr>
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Covering this event gave me the chance to see the parade route that would also be used for the main Dickensian Christmas Festival and work out where a good vantage point would be. I could also see what the lighting conditions would be like at various points, what direction the sun would be coming from where the gaps in the shops were and anticipate how difficult it might be to shoot when there would be large crowds. I found out how hard it was to shoot an actual parade, panning if the characters walked too quickly, practised pre-focusing on a certain spot and also remembered to turn the focus onto the crowd from time to time. I also remembered to bring pencil and paper to take names for captioning. Although happier with this shoot I looked forward to the other events to capture more street entertainment and other characters. Several of the groups approached me and asked if they could have my details or take theirs so they could possibly use my images on their webpages this included:</div>
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Chris Moor - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChrisMoorAsCaptainJackSparrow" target="_blank">Jack Sparrow</a></div>
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Vendor Organisers - <a href="http://fieldstaffantiques.com/blog/" target="_blank">Fieldstaffs Antiques</a> for use on their blog<br />
Street Dancing - <a href="http://www.vibedancenights.co.uk/gallery.html" target="_blank">Vibe Dance</a></div>
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Rotary Club - <a href="http://www.medwayrotary.org.uk/santa-fun-run.html" target="_blank">Santa Fun Run</a></div>
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Sandi Digby - <a href="http://www.footstepsintimerochester.co.uk/" target="_blank">Footsteps in Time</a> for a record of the event<br />
Steam Punks - <a href="http://greatkentspectations.co.uk/">http://greatkentspectations.co.uk/</a></div>
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<i>"Thank you for the link to your photos, they are brilliant! I have forwarded the link to the people featured in them, I hope that is ok." </i>- Sandi</div>
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<i>"Thank you for this link and the ability to download the pictures. There are certainly some very impressive images and you have sent them to the right contact for the Santa Fun Run."</i> - David Hatcher Santa Fun Run<br />
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"<i>Hi Jan…thank you so much …they are excellent pics….I know Capt Jack & the dancers will love them and I'm delighted with them all, especially the ones that have the shop in! If it’s ok with you I’ll send them to the lady who organizes the dancers and Captain Jack and also put them on my blog" </i>- Jane Fieldstaff Antiques</div>
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I subsequently received another email from Jane<i> "I've sent them to the lady who organized the dancing outside my shop….she was delighted with them… We do loads of photoshoots at the shop, so if you ever want to use us for your project you are most welcome….we're always looking for good pics of the shop!"</i></div>
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From this event I also learnt a valuable lesson with regards to my batteries, despite having 2 both are getting fairly old. Even though I kept them in an inside pocket both drained fairly quickly and although I captured the parade and a lot of stage events, compared by Heart FM's Neil Kefford, I actually missed the celebrities, James ‘Diags’ Bennewith and Tom Pearce from TOWIE, turning on the lights with the mayor and the lit up streets. I made sure I bought a new battery before the main event! Check out Heart FM's images <a href="http://www.heart.co.uk/kent/events/photos/16-november-2013-part-ten/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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The Christmas market was not as big or as impressive as previous years which had wooden Swiss style chalet stalls, holly boughs, lights and German craft stalls. Apparently they were very expensive and the following year they pulled out at the last minute, therefore this year there were not many stalls set up for the first few weekends and those that were there were not especially Christmassy and were just white tarpaulin. Nothing that made for the picturesque or would have encouraged people to attend. I enjoyed using my tripod, cable release and long exposures to capture the lights in and around Rochester. Seeing as I had more on the reject pile this is another area of photography that I need to work on if my intention is to pursue night shots more frequently.</div>
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The main festival itself ran over 2 days, Saturday 7, Sunday 8 December with the Seven Poor Travellers' Procession, City of Rochester Pipe Band, various street entertainers and theatre groups as well as Dickensian Societies being represented. There was to be a main parade at 12 noon on both days as well as a candlelit parade at 4.45pm culminating in Carols for Christmas on the Boley Hill Stage outside Rochester Castle. I attended both as some events were only happening on one of the days and as some ran simultaneously I wanted to try and cover as much as I could. Having been to the <i>Only in England </i>exhibition showing photographs from Martin Parr and Tony Ray-Jones and looking through Parr's book<i> The Conformists</i> showed me how English at leisure and attending special occasions could be photographed. Most of Parr's and Ray-Jones' subjects were captured unawares and often each person was looking in a different direction. Both filled the frame as much as possible leaving very little or no negative space I hoped to take inspiration from these photographers to complete my final assignment.</div>
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Sounds easy (she laughs) in total I took over 600 shots, quite a few were easily rejected due to poor framing, out of focus or not being of anything interesting. I completed 3 rounds of selection and whittled them down to just over 60</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ali King from Seven Dials Rapscallions as Mrs Grimes</td></tr>
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I really liked the last four images, the subject matter and compositions all work within the event I set out to cover but due to high ISO or missing the focus they have been discarded from my final set, this is where I need to work on using flash or even consider a new camera, more and more I am realising the limitations of having an older model where the highest ISO is 1600, images are soft at 400 and at 800 grain is really noticeable at 1600, for me it really spoils the shot.</div>
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Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-90233388978620834742013-12-22T08:39:00.001-08:002013-12-22T08:39:20.956-08:00Assignment 5 Project Shooting and processingAs you can see I have done a fair bit of research into choosing an event and then researching the event itself and exploring avenues to market my work, developing a publishing plan. Next in line is the shooting and processing. I carefully considered the equipment I would need or might need, purchased an extra battery, lens hood and a wet weather cover so I covered all the eventualities with regards to the weather. I made a flash "card" to bounce light and soften it if needed and quickly read up a little information about shooting at night with a flash but this if anything has highlighted the need for more exploration of lighting techniques.<br />
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So check list was :<br />
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<li>3 camera batteries fully charged and shirt with pockets so they kept warm and didn't lose charge.</li>
<li>Memory card in camera plus spares formatted and packed in bag</li>
<li>Camera sensor clear from dust</li>
<li>Lens clean and free from dust/grease spots</li>
<li>Lens selection adequate for needs - final choice was for my EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM. It has a constant f/2.8 aperture throughout the zoom range and a 3-stop Image Stabilizer, making ideal for a good performance and framing flexibility in low light conditions.</li>
<li>Bounce Card</li>
<li>Wet weather cover</li>
<li>Lens Hood</li>
<li>Tripod/Monopod if needed</li>
<li>memorise shot list - take it with me as a reminder</li>
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I have a set workflow and it was my intention to follow the same procedures that I always have :<br /><br />
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<li>shoot event</li>
<li>upload using Adobe Bridge and custom template</li>
<li>name images with event name and date use auto numbering from 1</li>
<li>archive onto external drive working copies on hard drive final selects to be written to disc</li>
<li>use Adobe Bridge star rating system for first and second selects</li>
<li>process selects - double check select choices</li>
<li>caption images - complete metadata</li>
<li>prepare marketable package - upload to website for download or burn hi-res to disc for mailing</li>
<li>prepare lo-res for display</li>
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Everything researched, equipment primed I was ready to go....Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-22930668937069734762013-12-17T12:53:00.000-08:002013-12-27T05:47:12.560-08:00Assignment 5 Project: Marketing your work ....... Exercise: Develop a publishing planThis for me felt quite alien. I don't sell my images, I don't promote my images and this was never the reason behind undertaking a photography course. What I wanted and still want to do, is improve my photography, understand a little more about the history, how to analyse certain areas and all the other practical, theoretical and educational aspects of working towards a degree. Making this a career move or attempting to make money out of it has never been a goal. That may alter but until now I had never considered how to market work or how to price it. Research into current prices and charges can be found <a href="http://janfairburnoca.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/assignment-5-coverage-of-event-practice.html" target="_blank">here</a> on a previous post.<br />
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Exercise: Develop a publishing plan.<br />
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First of all I had to identify my market, I considered the following:<br />
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<li>tourist information websites</li>
<li>tourist information leaflets</li>
<li>individual group websites</li>
<li>Local newspapers</li>
<li>Medway Council</li>
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Areas if potential clients identified I undertook research to make sure they would possibly be interested in my work.</div>
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<a href="http://events.kentonline.co.uk/events">http://events.kentonline.co.uk/events</a> does carry images of places to visit/upcoming events they would possibly not actually require images until next year but a potential lead to enquire how they obtain images and what they pay.</div>
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<a href="http://www.rochesterdickensfestival.org.uk/">http://www.rochesterdickensfestival.org.uk/</a> appear to have their own photographer and get sent links to flickr sets so unlikely to want to pay for images<br />
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Other groups, I may come into contact with on the day.<br />
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Local newspapers tend to have their own in-house/freelance photographers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.medway.gov.uk/leisureandculture/events.aspx">http://www.medway.gov.uk/leisureandculture/events.aspx</a> produce webpages and brochures to promote the event so another potential lead. Looking into this lead further I discovered the correct department to speak to was the Marketing/Communications team.<br />
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<a href="http://www.medway.gov.uk/councilanddemocracy/communications.aspx">http://www.medway.gov.uk/councilanddemocracy/communications.aspx</a><br />
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On ringing the number on the website I spoke to a very helpful person who provided me with some basic information. The council does hire photographers for their publications and depending on the type of work they want carried out will influence the price they pay. Starting rates tend to begin at £75 for half a day for maybe a few shots for the local newspaper to up to £500 for half a day for more specific posed/artistic/creative shots although they confided that this sum of money hadn't been paid out for a long time and historically once, maybe twice, a year.<br />
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The council likes the highest resolution images possible but when I asked what this would be I didn't get a specific reply but was advised I could send the highest res I had on a disc or if I had an online gallery they could download from this would also be acceptable and if they wanted a higher res image they would contact me to send. I explained my situation, being a student and this being part of my coursework and that I had never sold my work before. Despite this the gentleman was still interested for me to send him copies of my work and gave me his contact details saying that they did occasionally use "ad hoc" images and would credit the originator in these instances. This was interesting to discover and the fact that he was so helpful and open to viewing my photographs has given me more confidence to possibly approach other potential clients should I cover an event again.<br />
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This has opened up my internal debate as to whether or note I should have a basic website set up to showcase some of my imagery as my flickr has "everything" on there so does not present a coherent picture of the type of photographer I want to be, or want to present to potential clients. Something to consider.<br />
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I created this web gallery as part of DPP so it may get updated to fit my purpose<br />
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<a href="http://jfocaphotography.weebly.com/index.html">http://jfocaphotography.weebly.com/index.html</a><br />
<br />Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-76149897740309038212013-12-17T12:04:00.002-08:002014-05-16T03:58:52.343-07:00Light and FlashKnowing I was going to be shooting an all day event that would also run into the evening and possibly poor light during the day, due to the time of year, I was concerned about the lighting. I knew I could increase my ISO and also have a wide aperture but I am not a huge fan of grainy soft images. However neither am I a huge fan of using flash. Partly I don't like some of the harsh and unrealistic effects it can give but mainly due to the fact I am quite unsure of how to use one. I do own one, have done for a while but have to admit it lives in my cupboard and gets very little use if any.<br />
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I decided I needed to investigate a little more and get over my fears. I did some research looking at various websites and decided I would experiment it bouncing flash, not sure how successful it would be as I was shooting outside with the probability of not having much to bounce off of or if a bounce card would actually work outside.<br />
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<a href="http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/an-introduction-to-indoor-and-studio-flash-photography--photo-4229">http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/an-introduction-to-indoor-and-studio-flash-photography--photo-4229</a><br />
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<a href="http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/an-introduction-to-outdoor-flash-photography--photo-4272">http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/an-introduction-to-outdoor-flash-photography--photo-4272</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5byuHJ9uBns">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5byuHJ9uBns</a><br />
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<a href="http://pixsylated.com/blog/">http://pixsylated.com/blog/</a><br />
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all of these were interesting and informative in one way or another but I haven't really had chance to look and learn a lot....what I need to do is experiment and play and see what happens. To this effect I have purchased a polystyrene head and some basic craft materials to make something to bounce my flash. I also dusted off my instruction booklet to remind myself of the basic functions, it does help if you know how to turn it on and also do exposure compensation. Once I have taken shots inside and out I shall upload my results to my blog.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">black and white foam plastic mesh, velcro dots</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">all of the above plus bounce template</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">foam marked out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">white foam backed with black, mesh between to improve rigidity, velcro dots applied</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">as above side view</td></tr>
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As per the recommendation I purchased a Neil van Niekerk book On-Camera Flash - techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography. On first glance (reading the foreword) it seems to be written simply and promises to, with practice and study. teach me how to use flash properly. I hope so as I am quite phobic. David A Williams' (who wrote the foreword) assertion that people say I don't use flash because it's so unnatural translates as "I don't know how to use flash" is partially true, I do prefer natural light but that is probably because when I use flash it does look unnatural and that is probably down to the fact that I don't know how it works and don't use it often enough to get the confidence to use it.<br />
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I recognize that images are made or broken due to the available light and how you can play with it creatively but recognizing it and being able to utilize it are completely different. I want to learn how to manipulate the flash to improve set scenarios by enhancing the existing light so fingers crossed that by the time I wade through to the end and try out some of the techniques I will have an idea of how to achieve this even if it not perfected.<br />
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Looking at the opening plates that were taken using available light it was good to see the settings with wide apertures and high ISO, this is where my older camera lets me down slightly as grain starts to become more obvious at these higher settings.<br />
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The essential concepts are:<br />
The larger the light source, the softer the light - bouncing the flash off walls, ceilings or reflectors creates a softer light and can also make it directional.<br />Consider, Direction,Intensity and Colour Balance, Post production, White-Balance settings and Manual Flash vs TTL/Auto Flash.<br />
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It was really reassuring to read that taking photographs often happens in less-than-perfectly-controlled situations and that "there is simply no photographer good enough to be able to set the exact exposure, white balance, contrast and saturation" for every shot. I frequently worry that I am not getting it right "in camera" and that I need to adjust in post-production, but seems I am not alone :o)<br />
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When bouncing light off surfaces colour cast will be introduced, Niekerk suggests using the closest white balance setting then touching up as part of the usual workflow in RAW, and using the same setting throughout the shoot for ease of group adjustment rather than individual.<br />
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Manual V TTL is where my head first starts to explode so notes will need to be made and thumped into my brain! With manual the ISO and aperture settings WILL affect the exposure, with TTL it will not- proviso being as long as this is within the equipment's capabilities. I need to brush up on exposure metering, TTL flash and manual flash! I see a steep learning curve ahead......Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-84923380835637103852013-12-17T10:45:00.000-08:002013-12-17T10:45:09.927-08:00PwDP Assignment 5 Exercise: A written planFrom planning the event to shooting...<br />
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<ul>
<li>Identify Event - Rochester 2013 Dickensian Christmas Festival - build up and Festival Weekend</li>
<li>Research Event - online galleries, websites and publications</li>
<li>Permissions and access - speak to organisers discover what is happening when will permissions for buildings/characters be required</li>
<li>Site reconnaissance - visit beforehand to check out parking, lighting, vantage points, traffic closures size of area to be covered event stages and venues.</li>
<li>Provisional shot list:</li>
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Key Moments- the parades, Seven Poor Travellers' Procession, candle lit parade, street entertainment, stage performances, Punch and Judy, Carols for Christmas.</div>
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Preparations - stallholders setting up, band practice, characters getting ready/sorting costumes</div>
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Behind the Scenes - unpacking cars, relaxing with a cup of tea, Victorian Characters on mobile phones or other quirky moments</div>
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Wide establishing shots - crowds, the parades, market stalls, entertainers and the crowds, fake snow</div>
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Telephoto- Shots from a higher vantage point showing a mass of people, the parade, close up of certain characters</div>
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Close up detail - Christmas Market- chance for close up shots of merchandise, uniforms and costumes, possibly chance to capture finer details</div>
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Spectator reaction shots - children watching Punch and Judy, reaction to characters and street entertainment, fake snow </div>
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<li>Equipment check list</li>
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Be prepared to deviate from the plan and go with the flow but with these ideas in mind I should have a decent variety of images once the event has ended.</div>
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<ul>
<li>arrive early to ensure parking, have all equipment needed</li>
<li>park close enough that should equipment not be required it can be left in the car and not carried about all day</li>
<li>be prepared for inclement weather - waterproof cover for camera and small umbrella</li>
<li>be prepared for poor lighting, have flash gun and bounce card</li>
<li>walk the route of the parade and check all stage areas</li>
<li>permissions checked there should be no problems with access or shooting required images</li>
<li>check where the loos are and suitable place to find food and drink between events</li>
<li>have provisional shot list</li>
<li>have pen and paper to jot down names of characters/groups or anyone who wants my details or to give me theirs</li>
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Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-58423250036520667522013-12-17T10:11:00.000-08:002013-12-17T10:11:39.776-08:00PWDP Assignment Five - Project Planning Coverage of an An Event For this assignment I sweated blood. Racking my brains as to what I could photograph in the first place, would it be possible, would it be interesting, would anyone want the images in a commercial capacity? I looked in local newspapers, tourist information places and also online at "what's on" sites.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/whats_on.aspx">http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/whats_on.aspx</a><br />
<a href="http://www.visitkent.co.uk/whats-on">http://www.visitkent.co.uk/whats-on</a><br />
<a href="http://www.whatsoninkentlocal.com/all/search/">http://www.whatsoninkentlocal.com/all/search/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g186310-Activities-Kent_England.html">http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g186310-Activities-Kent_England.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.visitmedway.org/events/dickensian-christmas">http://www.visitmedway.org/events/dickensian-christmas</a><br />
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these gave me a flavour of what was on when and where and were also brilliant for seeing the sort of photographs used to advertise up and coming events and the type of stock images used.<br />
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As seen in previous posts I did undertake a few practice runs, some more successful than others but all good learning curves which pointed out failings, or better ways of working or just re-acquainted me with my camera.<br />
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I finally decided to cover the festive build up in Rochester Kent. It is an area fairly local to me, familiar enough that I felt comfortable in knowing the area slightly but not overly familiar that I would be complacent with what I was shooting. It has a rich history and is heavily associated with Dickens and their Christmas festivities culminate in the Dickens Christmas Festival early in December.<br />
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<a href="http://www.historyextra.com/visit/historic-rochester">http://www.historyextra.com/visit/historic-rochester</a><br />
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Within Rochester you'll find a wonderful blend of ancient and modern in the heart of the "garden of England". It is a city steeped in history, dominated by a fine Norman Castle and Cathedral, bounded by the maritime traditions and spirit of past British naval dominance on the River Medway. It has many festivals throughout the year for example the Dickens Summer and Christmas festivals and the Sweeps festival. The whole area is linked to Dickens with the landscape and many buildings taken as inspiration for settings in his books.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/holidaytypeshub/article-615221/Great-Expectations-Dickens-Kent.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/holidaytypeshub/article-615221/Great-Expectations-Dickens-Kent.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thevoid.plus.com/bozrochester.htm">http://www.thevoid.plus.com/bozrochester.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2011/oct/31/charles-dickens-audio-tours-rochester-walk">http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2011/oct/31/charles-dickens-audio-tours-rochester-walk</a><br />
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Another brilliant place to look at what was coming up was the Rochester Dickens Festival website.<br />
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<a href="http://www.rochesterdickensfestival.org.uk/">http://www.rochesterdickensfestival.org.uk/</a> and later on Medway council provide a link to a downloadable PDF of the program of events which also gave me a wonderful idea of what to expect and images they published.<br />
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<a href="http://www.medway.gov.uk/leisureandculture/events/dickensianchristmas.aspx">http://www.medway.gov.uk/leisureandculture/events/dickensianchristmas.aspx</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/whats_on/2011/november/28/dickens_christmas_market.aspx">http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/whats_on/2011/november/28/dickens_christmas_market.aspx</a><br />
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...for the parade itself and other activities that occur over the weekend.<br />
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Having completed all this research I decided this was a suitable event, physically accessible being fairly local to me and possible to complete within the given time frame. There would be a lot of events/ entertainment occurring but being over several weekends of build up and the actual festival being held over 2 days I anticipated being able to capture most of the activities/atmosphere.<br />
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I spoke to several of the organisers involved in the run up to the Dickensian Festival and all were quite happy for me to capture their event, I was given email addresses and contact details for a few of them plus future events planned for next year.<br />
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Rochester High Street and Castle Grounds are places previously visited but to make sure I knew exactly what I was up against I took the opportunity to check out parking and lighting conditions at various points during the day.<br />
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From looking at the online galleries and the Dickensian Festival Brochure I made a provisional shot list and drew up a written plan. All that was left to do (all she laughs) was consider a publishing plan, marketing my work and think about shooting and processing and finally shot the event!<br />
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<br />Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-71510507517952272212013-11-22T12:27:00.002-08:002014-03-11T10:18:52.044-07:00Only in England Martin Parr and Tony Ray-Jones Science Museum 2013Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr<br />
21 September 2013 - 16 March 2014<br />
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<i>Fascinated by the eccentricities of English social customs, Tony Ray-Jones spent the latter half of the 1960s travelling across England, photographing what he saw as a disappearing way of life. Humorous yet melancholy, these works had a profound influence on photographer Martin Parr, who has now made a new selection including over 50 previously unseen works from the National Media Museum's Ray-Jones archive. Shown alongside The Non-Conformists, Parr's rarely seen work from the 1970s, this selection forms a major new exhibition which demonstrates the close relationships between the work of these two important photographers.</i><br />
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Tuesday 19 November 2013, 19.45–21.15<br />
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<i>Martin Parr reflects on the profound influence Tony Ray-Jones’s practice has had on his work and their shared interest in documenting English social ritual and behaviour, with Kate Fox, social anthropologist and author of Watching the English, and Sean O’Hagan, writer on art, culture and photography for the Guardian and Observer. </i><br />
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Just recently I went along to the<i> Only in England</i> exhibition and this week attended the Martin Parr talk about the same. I decided in advance to combine both experiences within the same blog post.</div>
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Firstly the gallery space; it seems to be the "in thing" for London Museums to have photographic exhibitions, first the Natural History Museum and now the Science Museum, with its new Media Space. I guess this shows the growth in the popularity of photography and how financially lucrative it must be for these venues to run them. Although it seemed a bit weird to be jaunting off to the Science Museum the gallery was rather impressive. Apparently the 525 square metres of space make it "one of the biggest venues for photography in Britain" with the huge space cleverly divided by wooden framed walls running down the centre; a bit maze like but it does make for more wall space and was beautifully illuminated.<br />
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The exhibition itself is split into three distinctive areas, the first comprised of 60 prints from the archive of Tony Ray-Jones, secondly the early black-and-white work of Martin Parr, and lastly previously 56 unseen pictures from the archive of Ray-Jones, selected by Parr from contact sheets and negatives. It was brilliant to see these contact sheets on display and from them have an insight as to how he worked; snapping a subject then moving around to improve the composition, or waiting for the scene to develop waiting for more people to fill a space. Apparently Ray-Jones’s preferred technique was to carry two cameras- Leica rangefinders, one @ 35mm lens and the other @ 50mm. One he would hold at eye level, pointing it at something in the distance, this meant that the chosen subject would either ignore him completely or turn to look at what he was pretending to photograph. The other he would hold at waist level, that would actually take the photo.<br />
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Parr commented on the spatial look and feel of his images, how different subjects would be looking in different directions;no-one really over lapped, this became more apparent as he went through the archive of negatives. It seems really masterful that such spontaneity resulted in the amazing compositions he captured; pictures that look busy, alive with activity and motion, and full of smaller details. I especially noted the way he grouped people together who are clearly unaware of each another at the moment the shutter clicked.Still, moving, blank-faced, excited, young, old, the whole gamut in one image. This is something I will look out for when shooting my event for assignment 5. Although not sure how successful I'll be I can but try!<br />
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It was reassuring to see the odd white or black square in his contact sheets where he hadn't quite gauged the exposure! Also dotted around were notebooks, layouts, letters and lists – in vitrines and on the walls.<br />
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Another piece of ephemera that I found fascinating was a cardboard shape of a bear he had used when employing dodge and burn on an image, copies of before and after shots and notes saying where and how he would apply it.</div>
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For those of you who are new to Tony Ray-Jones a brief biography would run something like :<br />
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His father died when he was only eight months old and after his father's death, Tony's mother took the family to Tonbridge in Kent, then and finally Hampstead in London. He was educated at Christ's Hospital (Horsham), which apparently he hated. Ray-Jones studied at the London School of Printing, where he concentrated on graphic design then in the early 1960s he obtained a scholarship that enabled him to join Yale University School of Art. In 1963 he was given assignments for the magazines Car and Driver and Saturday Evening Post.<br />
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Ray-Jones went to the Design Lab held by the art director Alexey Brodovitch in the Manhattan studio of Richard Avedon. There he got to know a number of New York "street photographers", in particular Joel Meyerowitz, Garry Winogrand, and Lee Friedlander who all influenced his later work. Snippet from the talk was that Joel Meyerowitz would often complain about his personal hygiene and make him shower when they worked in his studio!<br />
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Ray-Jones graduated from Yale in 1964 and photographed the United States until his return to Britain in late 1965.On his arrival the idea of a survey of the English at leisure gradually took shape, he wanted to document the way of life of the English "before it became too Americanised". His photographs of festivals and leisure activities are full of a surreal humour, influenced by photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand, Homer Sykes and Sir Benjamin Stone. Part of this work was published posthumously in his book A Day Off (1974). There is a short video within the exhibition where Parr explains how some of the captions are wrong and they now know that certain places were not where they originally thought!<br />
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Described as eccentric and abrasive he once said to Peter Turner, the editor of Creative Camera, "Your magazine's shit". He returned to the United States in January 1971 to work as a teacher but he disliked teaching, saying that the students were "self-centred and lazy." In late 1971, Ray-Jones suffering from exhaustion eventually sought advice, leukaemia was diagnosed, and he started chemotherapy. Medical treatment in the US was too expensive, so Ray-Jones flew to London on 10 March, was immediately admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital where he sadly died on 13 March aged 31.<br />
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At a time of social change, Ray-Jones was determined to record anything that he saw as being particularly (or peculiarly) English before it disappeared forever. The street and the seaside were his main targets although he also captured the rituals of Eton boarding school and the Glyndebourne opera festival, as well as beauty contests and pop festivals. Kate Fox described both Ray-Jones and Parr as "social anthropologists with a camera" and Sean O'Hagan introduced both Ray-Jones and Parr as "capturing the spirit and mentality" of the English. Martin Parr commented while looking at TRJ's work that he was surprised by how English the English still are and how it is still possible to make work that can still be regarded as "terribly English." Ms Fox echoed this sentiment and said she can still see the English "tribe" today within the archival photographs.<br />
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It is wonderful how Ray-Jones managed to capture fine details in larger scenes, had the ability to snap the ordinary and make it interesting, the patience to stand and wait for something entertaining or quirky to occur and the skill to get close enough to a subject without them posing. His images have been described as "slices of life as seen through the lens."<br />
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Walking around the exhibition was appealing on many levels, as a slice of English history, of personal nostalgia and as a photographer seeing how he worked with and composed his images. Looking around taking notes I noticed a young man doing the same, obviously a student. I had to stop and ask him was he getting the same information/feelings from the images as me although we were from a different generation. I could remember things from my childhood in the 60's and 70's that struck chords. He said although he had no direct memories he could see things on the wall that were in his family albums at home and coming from the North the Blackpool shots and many of Martin Parr's early images were resonating.</div>
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Neither TRJ nor Parr (especially latterly) shied away from capturing the quirky or seediness of our seaside towns or events. His images of the festivals and people sitting on the marquees certainly show how Health and Safety has moved on!<br />
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You then moved onto the work of Martin Parr. I have never really been a fan of his so it was enlightening to see his series, <i>The Non-Conformists</i>, made in and around Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire in 1975, just after he graduated from art school. The title comes from the Methodist and Baptist churches that dotted the region.<br />
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Parr gave his main influences as his grandfather initially, then Lee Friedlander and Robert Frank, he was also inspired by a talk given by Bill Jay who showed the work of Tony Ray-Jones while he was still at college.</div>
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The influence of Ray-Jones is really quite apparent in this early body of work although definitely not a direct imitation, Parr had his own perception of the world and photographer's "voice". His work also looks more considered and less spontaneous. One thing I must comment on about both bodies of work is how grainy they both were...I am always surprised by this but I guess it was part of the fashion at the time and part of the ethos that serious documentary was grainy black and white! Parr mentions again the use of gaps between the people being as important as the people themselves.<br />
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It was interesting to hear Parr say that to enable this body of work to be produced he immersed himself into the lifestyle of the people and became very involved with the community but realised that this in some ways was a mistake; some of the elders of the village mistook his professional interest as a personal interest and expected him to stay and take over certain projects.<br />
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I have to admit to not being a huge fan of Parr, due in part to his use of flash and garish colour saturation in some of his imagery. I don't know an awful lot about his work so need to look at more before I can state outright "I don't like Parr." Some of his observations are spot on and is it his fault that capturing real life makes people look weird? We aren't all air brushed, we don't all live in ivory towers or holiday in exotic climes. This is what he shows, raw England. It was very telling however, that this first body of work is missing the undertone of mocking cynicism seen within <i>The Last Resort</i>. Instead <i>The Non-Conformists</i> portrays the community with sympathy, empathy and affection even whilst capturing the surreal humour of some of the situations. I enjoyed this body of work so much that I bought the book and queued up to get it signed by the man himself.<br />
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<a href="http://www.aperture.org/shop/the-non-conformists-martin-parr-books">http://www.aperture.org/shop/the-non-conformists-martin-parr-books</a><br />
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The final gallery returns to Tony Ray-Jones and the selection carefully chosen by Parr, a tricky enough job choosing your own first selects let alone deciding for someone else. Parr acknowledged that there’s no way of knowing if Ray-Jones would have ultimately approved. Here all the background information and notes really come to the fore and help us understand the working methods and motives behind the photographer.<br />
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An exhibition I would strongly recommend.<br />
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Moving onto the talk I have lots of quick jottings, comments made by both Kate Fox and Martin Parr, chaired by Sean O'Hagan. A very entertaining evening although not possibly for all the right reasons...I went along with a former tutor and two others who were his former students. We have all kept in contact and are good friends so was a chance to catch up and giggle at certain aspects that we really should have known better about! That aside, several pertinent comments were made during the evening; once we had established that Martin Parr had previously been a train spotter and Kate Fox, as a baby, had been strapped into an Indian cradleboard and propped up around the house by her father (get the impression the conversation strayed all over the place??).<br />
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<li>Parr has discovered the joy of shooting films; whilst listening to the banter between people he realised he couldn't capture that, so in some ways a photograph cannot tell the whole story.</li>
<li>He was also inspired by Tony Hancock who succinctly caught and gently mocked the pomposity of the English and this was what he tried to do with his later bodies of work.</li>
<li>He saw similarities between himself and TRJ in the respect that both had lived outside of the UK for a while and on returning saw familiar things from a different point of view.</li>
<li>As a nation we endorse the stereotype, are attracted to clichés, that although we may sometimes buck against a stereotype they are truisms, used as a starting point and given a twist.</li>
<li>The French like Parr more than we do, they like to laugh at us! Also they like photography more.</li>
<li>Due to the brashness of the modern world the only way to capture it meant it had to be in colour.</li>
<li>Try to use the whole frame for the story, not just the main subject in the middle.</li>
<li>Documentary photographers actually are no good at capturing the everyday as they want nostalgia and the quirky. Something Parr admits to doing himself in the past.</li>
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He was quite disparaging about photography students relying on clichés and that he had a list of these on his blog, again admitting to using some of these himself and actually responding to imgery containing them. However he warns against adhering too closely to what is familiar as it can be "as restricting as it can be liberating."</div>
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Then followed the typical question and answer session which I found to be a little on the predictable side with people asking stuff they could probably have found the answers to by googling them! Why, when you have the man himself in front of you ask boring questions?<br />
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My friend Natalie asked how could students be bolder and try different things when at the moment there is a problem with accessing sites due to more and more restrictions, or the general public not liking their photo taken. Did he think that the clichés he was seeing was due to the problems of access? (The irony being in a world where more n more technology exists and more and more images being taken in some ways it is harder to achieve) His response? "No-one said it would be easy. Try Harder. Get out of London." Hmmm I had to laugh, when you hold down a full time job, have a family, and your photography doesn't pay its not that simple. Hey, I guess no-one said it would be easy. When Natalie bought a copy of <i>The Last Resort </i>she asked for the dedication to read "You must try harder!"<br />
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Hmmmmm I wonder how hard his daughter had to work to get him to agree to this<br />
<a href="http://www.martinparr.com/blog/page/2/">http://www.martinparr.com/blog/page/2/</a> I totally acknowledge that it was her hard work that has enabled her to pursue her career nor is she a student but would the public in general have such access to Mr Parr? How many photography students would have been able to give away full sets of postcards or have Mr Parr attend their event? Am I being too cynical?<br />
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Microphone in hand I asked him about the funeral selfies, I had read the story a while ago and then saw it had been picked up in a weareoca blog post. <a href="http://www.weareoca.com/photography/the-selfie/">http://www.weareoca.com/photography/the-selfie/</a><br />
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I was interested to discover if he found them disrespectful because I didn't? Although you had to wonder at the motives behind some of the more scantily clad young ladies talking about their sadness over departed grandad, I could fully empathise with the grinning young man who reported that if she was seeing his image "gran would have been grinning away" to know he was having fun and with her sense of humour she would have loved it. My mum had been the same. She didn't want sadness or people dressing in black at her funeral, we had fun, bright colours, non conventional music and pictures uploaded to facebook prompted queries from people as to "that looks fun were you at a party" errrrm no it was my mum's funeral....<br />
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Martin Parr thought along similar lines, he thought it was more our own straightlaced moral upbringing that made us feel it was wrong to photograph at funerals (if you're wondering I have shots of her coffin and the vegetables...yes vegetables...placed in a basket on top) He had in fact had the suggestion of a body of work along those lines rapidly dismissed when he had put it forward. I find it quite strange that we have no worries when pointing a camera at dignitaries and onlookers at state funerals but baulk at the thought of doing it closer to home? I am not suggesting photobombing or intruding upon a stranger's intimate moment but that's what the press do on a regular basis so why the issue when people do it on a personal level? Maybe this is my own eccentricity revealing itself lololol.<br />
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Thanks to Michael for sending the images, cropped out Natalie as she hates her photo being taken. Typical photographer who likes to be behind the camera not in front!<br />
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Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-43859537091220353972013-11-14T13:02:00.000-08:002013-11-14T21:36:03.390-08:00Death in the Making - Photographs of War by Robert Capa - Atlas Gallery June 2013<br />
What can I say? I was so lucky to be invited along by a friend to see this exhibition. As I said in an earlier exhibition review it isn't often you get the chance to see first hand images created and printed by icons of photography.To mark what would have been his100th birthday London’s ATLAS Gallery curated a diverse exhibition to celebrate his life and work. Not only were numerous rare prints on show but you could also have sight of his Leica camera. Robert Capa was co-founder of Magnum Photos, of which ATLAS Gallery is the official UK gallerist. Owner Ben Burdett said: “It is indeed a rare honour to host such an exhibition. Capa’s unique mixture of energy, devil-may-care bravery, humanitarian concern and enormous charisma has always been a massive inspiration to me.”<br />
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I went to see the <i>eyewitness</i> -<i> Hungarian Photography</i> exhibition and it was super to be able to see more of his work on display here. I had forgotten he was born was born Andrei Friedmann!<br />
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In 1954 Capa answered Life’s call for a photographer for the Indochina front. Having sworn he would never report from another theatre of war he was eventually persuaded to accompany a French regiment into action. On May 25, 1954, he was killed by a land-mine while covering their advance in the Red River Delta in Vietnam. The rest is history... More information and pictures of the gallery space can be found on Atlas' Facebook page here:<br />
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Most people are aware of Capa due to the 11 frenetic, splashy and blurred D-Day landing shots he took, those and the infamous <i>Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death</i>, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936, which is accused not only of being staged but also of being taken by another photographer; Gerda Taro - companion and professional partner of Capa. Indeed these photographs are on display and if you had deep pockets you could have bought one, varying in price from as low as £1500 for one printed in 2007 through to those priced at £11000.00, for example <i>Mothers of Naples </i>1943 bearing the artists credit stamp, LIFE photo stamp and annotations on verso. Others were marked P.O.A so I dreaded to think what they were asking for those. Some were signed by Cornell Capa.<br />
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There was a mix of war imagery, political rhetoric -<i>Trotsky Speaking in Copenhagen, 1932 - </i>and those affected by the events happening around them - <i>Tired Little Girl Amidst Refugees, 1936.</i> Not all show despair as the laughing<i> Two Republican Volunteers Resting, Barcelona, 1936</i> will testify.<br />
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With Remembrance Day just gone and next year being the 100th anniversary of WWI it is honestly, for the majority of us, really difficult to truly appreciate the horrors of war, or to have lived at a time when Western political leaders were so terrifyingly commanding. Capa’s photographs seem to succinctly capture what happened at the time, record what both soldiers and civilians went through and have subsequently become important historical and sociological documents, every human emotion seems to have been preserved for posterity within his work.<br />
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Also part of the exhibition were a number of images by Russian war photographer Dmitri Baltermants, who was operating on the Russian front at the same time as Capa was reporting from World War II.<br />
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Having never heard of him before I did a little research. Baltermants was born in Warsaw, Poland. His father served in the Imperial Russian Army and was apparently killed in WWI. Originally a maths teacher he became a photojournalist in 1939 at some point becoming an official Kremlin photographer. During the Second World War he covered the battle of Stalingrad, and the battles of the Red Army in Russia and Ukraine when he was twice wounded. Working for the Kremlin undoubtedly meant many of his images were censored but luckily they became public much later on during the 1960's.<br />
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This is one of his more famous images, called "Grief", depicting a Nazi massacre of Jews. It shows the grief of village women as they search for the bodies of their loved ones. The sky was apparently burnt in during processing to add more drama. More info can be found on the website below but you need to hit translate!<br />
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Some of his images resemble closely those of Capa, but they would do given the subject matter, technology available and the conditions they were shooting in.<br />
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Once more blurred, grainy and full of action, he captures the moment perfectly.<br />
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Maybe it is only me that hasn't heard of him but the more I look at his work the more it draws me in, he too had a knack for telling a narrative, capturing raw emotion and energy. If it hadn't been for the Russian propaganda black out and the death of Capa maybe his name would also trip off the tongue when discussing great war photographers?Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-55578442059511390902013-11-13T13:06:00.000-08:002013-11-13T13:06:40.757-08:00Assignment 5 - Coverage of an Event Practice 4 Spa Valley Railway in Association with CAMRA Beer and Cider FestivalI've marked this one as a practice as I wasn't that happy with my selection of shots or the number that I need for this assignment, 12-20 first select images and about 20 second select. Maybe I am being too fussy ...I dunno....<br />
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I did all the prior research into CAMRA and the Spa Valley Railway also the Beer and Cider Festival which was into its 3rd year which I found initially through looking online at events in Kent.<br />
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<a href="http://www.perfectpint.co.uk/beer-festival/1770/3rd-Annual-Spa-Valley-Railway-Beer-Festival-in-association-with-West-Kent-CAMRA">http://www.perfectpint.co.uk/beer-festival/1770/3rd-Annual-Spa-Valley-Railway-Beer-Festival-in-association-with-West-Kent-CAMRA</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spa-Valley-Railway-Beer-Festival/275001462533092">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spa-Valley-Railway-Beer-Festival/275001462533092</a><br />
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Did all the checks and planning, which I won't outline here as I am chalking it up to experience :)<br />
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The day itself dawned WET! I see a pattern here for my outdoor shoots. Wet, wet and VERY wet spring to mind. The festival was running over three days, with beer at various stations along the line, being served on one of the trains with 4 more beers being served in the buffet car at Tunbridge Wells. Due to work and other commitments on the Saturday I had no option other than to go on the Sunday. On arriving at West Station Royal Tunbridge Wells I discovered a few things that upset my pre-planned images. Firstly the festival had been such a roaring success that despite the 70 plus beers and ciders available they were almost drunk dry! The other stations had no beer, the four beers in the buffet car were gone, the train serving beer was on its last dregs and the Engine Shed at Tunbridge Wells was almost out as well... the image below is one taken from their Facebook page showing full racks... They started with 65 firkins of beer and had 6 left. Iain Dalgleish from CAMRA told me they sold between 3000 and 3500 pints. CAMRA has been campaigning for about 10 years and the popularity of real ale was growing fast.<br />
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...and the kegs that were there were not very full! Luckily they managed to source some more cider and beer from local breweries which kept them afloat as outlined in the blog below. So my plan for full racks of beer barrels etc didn't quite pan out...Looking at images from last year the beer was set up in the shed in front of an engine which made for a better backdrop and this was another similar image I had planned which couldn't then use. (BTW this shed image is the first HDR I have attempted..not sure what to think of it tbh) The organisers were really lovely when I explained what I was trying to do and gave me access to the barriered off staircase which allowed for this high vantage shot. They also gave me glasses to play with and didn't mind me wandering around with my tripod.<br />
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There were also two groups of Morris Dancers planned to be travelling up and down the line and dancing on the stations, The Gong Scourers and Brooms.Bricks and Bowlers. They were there but due to all the rain most of the time had to dance inside, this meant no space to stand to get photographs, lots of clutter about and also contending with poor lighting. I did have my tripod but low light and fast action meant a lot of blurry shots which looked blurry, not planned action shots. See below for one semi decent inside shot...<br />
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Then another blow, some of the trains that were supposed to be running then didn't due to mechanical failure...you had to laugh really lolol..so my take on the day....<br />
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Opening shot which summed the day up really, beer (or lack of) trains (or lack of) and rain (no lack of). This shot was taken inside a railway carriage and I stuck the leaflet to the window with the condensation!<br />
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For £10 you got a beer glass and tokens to buy a couple of pints. You could buy more but this was the "starter kit". At the end of the day you could keep the mug/glass or return it and get £3 back. You may notice that the beer glasses were not only Spa Valley or CAMRA ones, they also started to run out of these and had to fetch glasses from previous festivals.</div>
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Beer inside the Engine Shed in the dry.....<br />
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One of the last few beers being served from the train....<br />
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One of the few beers left....<br />
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Women are the largest growing sector for cider and real ale, so much so CAMRA are now making 1/3 glasses.<br />
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Once more a fantastic day out and a good learning curve, felt more at ease chatting to people, had my pen and paper and took notes of names and statistics for captioning, missed a few names so need to make sure I don't do that again if I have the chance to ask. Think I need to practice taking photos with faster movement and try and get over my dislike of flash, if needing to cover events for real it is limiting not to use one, so I think I will look about for homemade diffusers or reflectors....</div>
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Non-commercial photography that is deemed to benefit Kew Gardens - i.e. by publicising its scientific work, its festivals, or its status as a visitor attraction - is handled free of charge by the Press Office. The following guidelines outline the service provided by the Press Office and what is required from applicants in return.</div>
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The problem with commercial photography for Kew is that it is a very well known and established UNESCO world heritage site and the competition must be huge, also not very original but it gave we a wonderful opportunity to play. As my luck seems to run at the moment it rained this day, When it wasn't raining it was very overcast and grey. However I did my best, upped my ISO used larger aperture or used my tripod and snapped away. </div>
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A bit of an "obvious" opening shot of a display all about pumpkins, Farley Hill Place Gardens supplied the pumpkins on display and owners Tony and Margaret Finch were there to talk about pumpkins sell pumpkins and carve pumpkins! But taking the photo gave me details of the gardens.</div>
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Over 75 types were on display in and around the Waterlily House completed in 1852, and at that time the widest single-span glasshouse in the world.</div>
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The Pumpkin Pyramid inside Kew's Waterlily House. It rises 4 metres up out of the central pond. 75 different types of pumpkin, including the fairytale-titled Cinderella, Munchkin and Peter Pan varieties, were used in the installation.</div>
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A closer shot from a different angle which shows the corner display "portraying ingredients and recipes from around the world (each corner representing one of the four corners of the globe). there are signs describing the species found in that part of the world along with mouth-watering recipes, from Pumpkin Tempura to Pumpkin Pie."</div>
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Leading into the Waterlily house many of the pumpkins were painted with designs that echoed their names, Turks Turban, Cinderella, Harlequin, Ghostrider etc.</div>
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Outside children could sit with pumpkin scarecrows for a photo opportunity, gaze at grinning pumpkin faces or watch them being carved.</div>
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Moving away from the pumpkins (of which I have MANY more images) I discovered The Seven Slate Towers. It has been there a while and in all my visits to Kew I have NEVER come across it! Wider scene establishing shot.</div>
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<i>Commissioned by Sir Robert and Lisa Sainsbury for the Secluded Garden at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew. The fountain forms the central feature of the Secluded Garden at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.</i></div>
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<i>The towers are constructed from hundreds of slates, each layer specifically cut, and placed to create a spiralling tower. The top of each tower is finished with a bronze bowl cast from copper sulphate crystal forms. Water is pumped up the towers filling the bowls slowly, and then trickles back down to the pool below. Originally created without a surrounding fence but due to fears of potential danger the piece was fenced off against the artist's wishes.</i></div>
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Many wild and domestic birds can be spotted at Kew including the quite tame peacocks, well tame enough that you can get quite close for photos. Only issue I had was it kept moving, so out of the many shots I took quite a few were blurry, vain enough to pose, cheeky enough to not allow me to capture the beauty! Wide establishing shot.</div>
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<i>Eagle Heights is one of the UK's largest Bird of Prey Centres, currently we have a collection of approximately 150 raptors. This includes over 50 species, many of which are now breeding at the centre or can be seen flying in our daily demonstrations. </i><i>We're also an expanding Wildlife Park for many different species of animals, including cheetahs, meerkats, snakes, lizards and much more!</i></div>
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<i>Eagle Heights is situated in the stunning Village of Eynsford overlooking the idyllic views of the valley and the rolling hills of the countryside. These beautiful views can be seen from the Tearooms where you can admire them with a warm pot of Tea!</i></div>
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<i>We are fully accessible to the disabled and welcome all group types and sizes. We offer Falconry Experience Days, Animals Experiences Days, Animal Adoption etc! All of which make fantastic gifts! Please see the Experiences section for full details!</i></div>
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A good day to experiment with different lenses, testing the limitations of my 17-55 for capturing the animals from a distance but the limitations of the 70-300 for anything closer and not being able to go so such a small aperture.</div>
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Two good days out and what did I learn? That research beforehand is always a good thing, find out what time displays/events are going to occur, take different lenses if you have them for different photo opportunities. Don't just focus on the animals/event, look at crowd reactions. Portrait shots don't just have to be of people! Most importantly with these two venues was the permissions, allow time for gaining permission and think about who would want to use the images, are you going to be in a larger field of competition?</div>
Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-70322160888525438712013-11-07T13:09:00.000-08:002013-12-24T12:04:59.773-08:00Assignment 5 - Coverage of an Event Practice 1 Cheddington Food FayreI haven't really been doing much photography, what with one thing and another, and doing theory so needed to get back in touch with my camera, how it felt to be out and about and up close to the general public. In talking to my cousin who lives in Cheddington, she mentioned that her village had an annual food fayre which could possibly be something I could cover as a practice run and if all went well even use it as my assignment.<br />
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There were a few downsides to photographing this event, firstly it was on a Friday night a good few miles away from where I live and there was a study day in London the next day, also there was no way I could do a site reconnaissance. Despite these misgivings I decided to give it a go so I could get back into the swing of things.<br />
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Asking myself the following questions in my planning:<br />
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<li>Permissions and access - being a local event and my cousin being an active member of the community she asked the questions and explained the situation. The organiser agreed I could go, some of the stall holders agreed in advance and I was to ask on the night if others had objections- I took along release forms just in-case anyone wanted to be official about any of it</li>
<li>Site reconnaissance - not possible</li>
<li>Provisional shot list - if possible stallholders setting up, stalls/stall holders portraits. Products for sale, wide shots and close ups. When open customers buying things, sampling things, wide shot of bustling church hall...would there be any key moments?</li>
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Marketing my work. Who would want to buy the images- if any good? Who would likely clients be? The parish magazine always do an article about the food fayre as does the local paper. The organizer of the fayre also sets up a website which he likes to use images to advertise each year. Normally he uses stock images and was interested if I could do something for him. Various local "things to do" websites also carry images of the fayre from time to time. One vendor in particular has shown an interest in me producing some still life images to promote their goods on their website but more of that later as it will be a personal project. As far as pricing my work is concerned, although we had the arrangement that the parish magazine might be interested likewise the promotional website, as this was purely exploratory and I had no chance to do a site reconnaissance it was more a verbal agreement that I was coming to take images for my course and not a serious commission.</div>
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On completing research there are a few websites that give advice on rates:</div>
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<i>Rates for jobs can vary from sector to sector and from job to job. One of the main things to understand about a photographer's income is that it is usually derived from two parts, from commissioned work and from selling stock photos. Most successful photographers will have built up a healthy stock library of their own images and these can be used to generate a steady income. It is extremely important that copyright laws are observed so make sure you read all about copyright for photographers in our Legal section.</i></div>
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<i>The National Union of Journalists have produced an excellent fees guide for freelance workers including photographers. As well as pay information there are also lots of useful hints and tips about protecting your work, what should be in your work agreement etc - a valuable resource. Have a look at the suggested rates here:</i></div>
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<a href="http://www.londonfreelance.org/feesguide/index.php?language=en&country=UK&section=Photography">http://www.londonfreelance.org/feesguide/index.php?language=en&country=UK&section=Photography</a></div>
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<a href="http://media.gn.apc.org/photo/">http://media.gn.apc.org/photo/</a></div>
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<a href="http://media.gn.apc.org/rates/photonew.html">http://media.gn.apc.org/rates/photonew.html</a><br />
<a href="http://petapixel.com/2013/05/05/survey-reveals-the-average-day-rates-of-us-and-uk-photographers/">http://petapixel.com/2013/05/05/survey-reveals-the-average-day-rates-of-us-and-uk-photographers/</a></div>
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and I looked at some photographers sites that give their rates/expenses or just tips to consider<br />
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<a href="http://jonathanpow.com/">http://jonathanpow.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.aetherweb.co.uk/products-and-services/freelance-photography.html">http://www.aetherweb.co.uk/products-and-services/freelance-photography.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.aaphotographic.com/photography-services/">http://www.aaphotographic.com/photography-services/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.comms2point0.co.uk/comms2point0/2012/4/18/10-tips-to-commission-a-freelance-photographer-and-five-thin.html">http://www.comms2point0.co.uk/comms2point0/2012/4/18/10-tips-to-commission-a-freelance-photographer-and-five-thin.html</a><br />
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you can even buy books about the subject...<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freelance-Photographers-Market-Handbook-2013/dp/090729765X">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freelance-Photographers-Market-Handbook-2013/dp/090729765X</a><br />
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So basically there seems to be a lot of information out there but don't undercharge or overcharge, be prepared to negotiate, sometimes you will get a commission other times you may just sell a single image to a given publication.<br />
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Rightly or wrongly I don't feel my photographic skills are high enough but I intend to practice and approach the final event I do undertake with the attitude towards it being fit for purpose - ie publication for a general readership.<br />
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I did some research into the Cheddington Food Fayre finding out who some of the vendors would be, looked at their webpages to see the kind of images they had already and looked at the facebook page and local up-and-coming event pages. A few examples are below:<br />
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<a href="http://www.vale-life.co.uk/cheddington-food-fayre/">http://www.vale-life.co.uk/cheddington-food-fayre/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cheddington.org.uk/events/">http://www.cheddington.org.uk/events/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cheddington.org.uk/media/2/files/Newsletter%20-%20October%202013.pdf">http://www.cheddington.org.uk/media/2/files/Newsletter%20-%20October%202013.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.britevents.com/whats-on/bedfordshire/cheddington/cheddington-food-fayre/396622/">http://www.britevents.com/whats-on/bedfordshire/cheddington/cheddington-food-fayre/396622/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheddington-Food-Fayre-2013/698130466867603">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheddington-Food-Fayre-2013/698130466867603</a><br />
<a href="http://www.beechwoodfinefoods.com/events/">http://www.beechwoodfinefoods.com/events/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.jimandjules.co.uk/">http://www.jimandjules.co.uk/</a><br />
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As to the Food Fayre, I have to laugh, quite a few things went wrong which I shall explain but it was a great learning curve which I shall outline in my final conclusion.<br />
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Firstly I work as a learning support assistant and also provide lesson cover in a teacher's absence. Typically on this Friday I was given cover for the last period which meant not being able to get out bang on time, this meant a delay in getting home, a delay in leaving and getting caught going through the Dartford tunnel.<br />
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Added to this the weather was absolutely horrendous, there was heavy rain, which gave off a lot of spray, there were a few prangs on the M25 which meant I arrived a lot later than anticipated and missed the setting up shots. The event was in full swing by the time I arrived and calmed down.<br />
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The food fayre was being held in the local church hall and the background of each stall was really cluttered with empty boxes, bags, coats, radiators, stacked chairs etc which made for really cluttered shots. The light was very low and I don't like to use flash so had to compromise with ISO/Aperture and shutter speed. This meant a lot of grainy soft shots which I personally dont like. Don't mind other people's images if they produce them that way but I like mine to avoid grain as much as possible. From the outset I then knew I wasn't going to get what I wanted but snapped away regardless as it was all good practice for me. Below are a selection of shots which attempt to be be action shots, portrait shots, product shots, scene setting etc etc.<br />
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Some I feel worked well as far as composition was concerned, the shallower DoF was also more successful with some than others. On the whole I think I ended up with too many product shots and not enough of the venue or group shots. Images appear to only work either as landscape or portrait with not enough scope to offer different crops if this was required by a magazine article. As I say I think some are too soft for my liking but may still work as small online images.<br />
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I quite liked the "cheese" shots, I actually had a good vantage point, there was a gap between 2 stalls and a lot of people tasting which shows how important positioning yourself can be.<br />
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Could have been a good image but messed up with the DoF so the word Food isn't in sharp focus! Also a bit too close a crop at the bottom...hey ho.....<br />
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Two where the DoF worked as far as I am concerned.<br />
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I like the hand in the background picking up the product and the diagonals of the leaflets in the background and the long serving spoon.<br />
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My cousin acted as an assistant, picking up business cards from each vendor and asking if they minded my taking photographs, this was handy but also proved to be another hiccough waiting to happen lol. Photographed out, there were too many people walking across me and other barriers that I haven't learnt to get around yet so we decided to leave. I picked up a few products that I will use and also thought I could practice still life with and possibly produce something, as a personal project, for promoting the fayre next year, images to follow when I get round to sorting them!<br />
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Back to her home, a very late dinner and falling into bed before getting up at some silly time in the morning for the drive back home to catch a train to be in London for the 11am study day! It was then I discovered that I had forgotten my overnight bag, had no night clothes, toothbrush or clean clothes for the morning...life!<br />
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The morning was a quick splash, I'd shower at home, make sure everything was put in my car, picked up the folder of paperwork with leaflets etc in and drove home. My son's friend had stayed overnight and was in the shower! Bang went my shower...then found out that my cousin had put larger leaflets in the folder but all the business cards in her purse, she still had them but promised to post them....after a few days they hadn't arrived, she confirmed she had posted them but had put the wrong postcode on the envelope....weeks later the post office still has them SOMEWHERE!<br />
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So what did I learn?<br />
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Make sure you only agree to photograph an event if you can make it on time or you feel really rushed.<br />
Make sure you are organised and take everything you need, not just photographic equipment.<br />
Really try hard to complete a site reconnaissance.<br />
Talking to people isn't as scary as it may first seem.<br />
Take lots and lots of shots to make sure you have enough for first and second select images.<br />
A good vantage point is important.<br />
Be prepared to work with the conditions that present themselves on the day, lighting, crowds etc<br />
Don't lose gathered information that will help with captioning or allow you to contact potential clients.<br />
Be prepared to laugh at yourself when it all goes tits up!!!!<br />
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Do I think I could market these as something different with my own individuality stamped on them LOLOLOLOL ermmmm my epic failure could be a kinda approach I guess......<br />
<br />Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-7391120197651435612013-11-05T10:29:00.000-08:002014-04-25T03:22:11.658-07:00Assignment Four - Critical Review - Essay Re-workI have now received and am reviewing the feedback from my tutor. I was really pleased by the positive comments on my tutor report and annotations on my returned essay, all of which are recorded on my posting here:<br />
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<a href="http://janfairburnoca.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/assignment-four-critical-essay.html">http://janfairburnoca.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/assignment-four-critical-essay.html</a><br />
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There were several suggestions to look at various other artists or comments made which could supplement my argument so am researching them to possibly include in my essay or just note down for future reference. The text in italics are excerpts from my essay where the annotations were made, followed by the annotation itself and my response to these:<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">1).... <i>John Szarkowski in the introduction to </i></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">The Photographers Eye</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> comments on the difference between paintings and art being a basic one: paintings were made but photographs were taken</span></i><w:sdt citation="t" id="-872230913" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"><i> (2003).</i>....</w:sdt><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><br />
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Have a look also at the comments Paul Delaroche (French portrait painter) made on first sight of a Daguerreotype in 1839 ... 'From this day, painting is dead!'<br />
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<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/painting-and-photography">http://www.answers.com/topic/painting-and-photography</a> Carries the above quote.<br />
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Basically photography came along at a point in the history of European painting when Romanticism "was widely admired and commercially successful" and realism "was beginning to coalesce into an oppositional movement". Some painters didn't see photography as a threat however and instead "quickly embraced it as a means of referencing such details." Edgar Degas, Pierre Bonnard, Edvard Munch, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, even became accomplished photographers. It was then painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), supposedly said, ‘From today, painting is dead.’ This stemmed from understanding "painting's purpose within a fairly narrow concept of visual representation." I thought it interesting to note from this article that a number of the photographers who achieved prominence in photography's first decades were trained in Delaroche's studio for example Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, Roger Fenton and Charles Nègre. Apparently "the painting-photography relationship eventually emerged as the paradigmatic instance of the broader reciprocal one between art and technology."<br />
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<i>The adjective paradigmatic is a fancy word for describing something that is an ideal or standard. Monet's paintings are paradigmatic of impressionism — they are a typical example of that style of art.</i><br />
<i>Use paradigmatic when you're talking about things that are archetypal or representative of some category and you want to sound impressive. You'll come across it if you study the subject of linguistics, where "paradigmatic analysis" is one way of analyzing a text, by examining patterns within it. The Greek word for "pattern," paradeigma, is the root of paradigmatic.</i><br />
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The article then goes on to tell us that some forms of painting did vanish ie miniature portraits, with some going on to become photographers others retouchers "More complex and far reaching in its implications was the declining prestige of the ambitious, sometimes outsize representations of past events or recent news known as history painting. Photography can only partly explain the shift in interest from large, complex images drawing on biblical, mythological, or historical sources, to traditionally ‘lesser’, more immediately accessible modes such as genre, still life, and landscape. But the possibility of seeing a photograph, rather than a painting of, say, the queen of England, the Parthenon, or Niagara Falls, even if in engraved reproduction, inevitably undermined painting's claim to historical and documentary authority."<br />
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2)<i> ....specifically exploring the new age of digital/electronic reproducibility.....</i><br />
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Have you already read Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay - 'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction' <br />
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Yes, a few years ago I was advised to have a look at this interesting piece, it was shortly before I signed up to the OCA. I re-read it in view of citing him in my essay but thought many people probably do so went for other references instead. I forgot to add him to my bibliography which I shall now do!<br />
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3) .....<i>Entertainingly, sometimes creepily, combining appropriated images he confesses to being a vandal and a thief and likens himself to a foster parent to these adopted images, but one who inflicts abuse due to the slicing and cutting he employs to create his work (Stezaker, 2011)....</i><br />
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Have a look at Charles Merewether also - He states 'the archive functions as the means by which historical knowledge and forms of remembrance are accumulated, stored and recovered.'<br />
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Dr. Charles Merewether is an art historian, writer and curator who has worked in Australia, Europe and the Americas. He worked as collections curator at the Getty Center in Los Angeles from 1994-2004. Between 2004 and 2006, he was artistic director and curator of the 2006 Biennale of Sydney and senior research fellow at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University. In October 2007, he was appointed deputy director of the Cultural District for the Tourist Development and Investment Company, Abu Dhabi. Since March 2010 he is Director at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore.<br />
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Dr. Charles Merewether has taught at the University of Sydney, Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona, the Ibero-Americana in Mexico City and the University of Southern California, and has lectured at the Beijing Academy of Art, Lingnan University in Hong Kong and the Asia Research Center at the National University of Singapore.<br />
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<a href="http://www.globalartmuseum.de/site/person/225">http://www.globalartmuseum.de/site/person/225</a><br />
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Interesting writer to remember for future reading and reference.<br />
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"One of the defining characteristics of the modern era has been the increasing significance given to the archive and the means by which historical knowledge and forms of remembrance are accumulated, stored and recovered. Created as much by individuals and groups, the archive, as distinct from a collection or library constitutes a repository or ordered system of documents and records, both verbal and visual, that is the foundation from which history is written." - Merewether, Charles. “Introduction: Art and the Archive.” The Archive.Ed. Iwona Blazwick.London, Cambridge: Whitechapel Gallery & MIT Press, 2006: 10-17. Print.<br />
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<a href="http://www.academia.edu/3228792/The_Archive_The_Creative_Process_of_Abstract_Painter_Thomas_Nozkowski">http://www.academia.edu/3228792/The_Archive_The_Creative_Process_of_Abstract_Painter_Thomas_Nozkowski</a><br />
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4) ..<i>.Despite the discomfort of some with regards to the use of borrowed images, which is a well-established technique in terms of fine art, and the almost complete appropriation of Brecht’s book, this is an extremely clever body of work which tells its narrative well, sets new boundaries for the displaying of photography and has opened a healthy debate on the direction that some areas of contemporary photography are headed....</i><br />
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Agreed look at the work of Joachim Schmid - Very Miscellaneous. <br />
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Very Miscellaneous (1996) is a variable cluster consisting of 70 b/w photographs.<br />
Six portraits and six texts are available as diptychs (one portrait and one text in any combination; b/w prints, 36 x 24 cm each, edition of 3).Very Miscellaneous was commissioned by PhotoWorks as part of the Country Life series, curated by Val Williams and made in conjunction with the George Garland Archive at the West Sussex Records Office.<br />
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<a href="http://schmid.wordpress.com/works/1996-very-miscellaneous/">http://schmid.wordpress.com/works/1996-very-miscellaneous/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3675573/Joachim-Schmid.html?image=4">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3675573/Joachim-Schmid.html?image=4</a><br />
<a href="http://digitalphotographyblog.wordpress.com/category/joachim-schmid/">http://digitalphotographyblog.wordpress.com/category/joachim-schmid/</a><br />
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German artist Joachim Schmid combined portraits by George Garland with fragments of newspaper articles drawn from the West Sussex Records Office.<br />
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"Schmid famously declared: “No new photographs until the old ones have been used up!” And he has rarely deviated from this avowal (made, incidentally, in 1989, on the 150th anniversary of photography’s invention) instead showing found photographs that he has grouped and titled."<br />
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<a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/london/art47047">http://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/london/art47047</a><br />
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I found his work really interesting and echoed work seen by other artists such as Stezaker!<br />
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5)<i> ... Barthes (1968) believed the author was dead but so too may be the single photograph; more and more it is becoming apparent that the single image no longer has the potency that it did, multidimensional bodies of work are coming to the fore, experimenting with mixed and multi-media....</i><br />
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I'm not sure about this, single images of conflict for example still hold power. Look at the shot of Kim Phuc taken by Nick Ut in Vietnam in 1972 - This event was also filmed, but the footage doesn't hold anywhere near as much power as the single frame.<br />
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As with most people I know this image well. I agree that some photographs such as this and many other are amazing at conveying a given point in time. I think I may have to reword this section of my essay as I know what I meant to say and don't think it came over as intended. What I was trying to say is that more and more photographers are creating bodies of work that are reliant on being displays as a whole and that single images don't always have the same impact when taken out of context......hmm food for thought as to how to reword this carefully!<br />
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Thanks once again to my tutor for positive feedback and introducing me to more academic and photographic work that will broaden my knowledge and is interesting to boot!<br />
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As for reworking my essay I feel there is little to amend beyond adding to my bibliography and altering my comment at the end to reflect more of what I actually wanted to convey, may bung in the reference here to the image mentioned in my feedback and my own experience with Christina De Middel on seeing only a few of her images at the Sony World Photography Awards. Paul Delaroche may also get a mention here alongside Barthes...who knows.....<br />
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*Update: Essay has been tweaked with reference added re Paul Delaroche, Joachim Schmid and the image by Nick Ut, also added Walter Benjamin to the Bibliography.Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-91741248180214745402013-11-02T06:10:00.001-07:002013-11-03T02:46:46.265-08:00Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012I came, I saw, it conquered. Out of the "historical" reviews this is my last, I have 2 personal visits that I undertook, a Robert Capa and just last week Only in England, still to do but my target for the week was to complete the OCA study days. YES, this one is IT!<br />
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Really, really briefly, for the past 3/4 years I have been to this exhibition, I always ask myself why, I don't like portraits, I don't want to take portraits, I can never understand how some get nominated and why the winners win. I always answer myself with, it's a day out, it's photographs, you can learn to appreciate portraits, discover why some leave you cold, why some are more interesting that others so that on the odd occasion when you need to take them you have a point of reference (sounds good in theory doesn't it!)<br />
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So in my opinion what makes a good portrait... something that is different from the norm, is insightful to the subjects character or occupation, possibly amusing, is possibly part of a body of work that is telling a narrative but can stand on it's own merit.<br />
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Looking at the online reviews to jog my memory I thought ahhhhhhhhhh yes I remember that one, with added thoughts of I still don't know why it won/didn't win. Bored of portraits already ( I find I spend hours making attractive people look ugly) and bored of writing reviews I am not going to comment individually on any of them, I guess only the photographers and judges know why they chose to include the usual mix of children, pets, famous people, nudes (was it last year the woman was dressed in her dead horses gear?!?!?!) so for your delectation and delight I close with the following links:<br />
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<a href="http://www.taylorwessing.com/news-insights/details/shortlist-announced-taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize-2012-2012-09-06.html">http://www.taylorwessing.com/news-insights/details/shortlist-announced-taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize-2012-2012-09-06.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9656485/Taylor-Wessing-Prize-2012-in-pictures.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9656485/Taylor-Wessing-Prize-2012-in-pictures.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/sep/07/taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize">http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/sep/07/taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize</a><br />
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I note that the 2013 exhibition starts in November, maybe I need to get Robert to take me round and enthuse so I realise what I am missing.....Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-18885231442106775932013-11-02T05:48:00.002-07:002013-11-03T02:45:51.352-08:00Perspectives on Collage Laura Letinsky et al at The Photographers GalleryDo I have to keep playing Mum? I guess I do, this one may be brief, I thought some of the others would be but once I get going I like to have my say. Added to the work of Broomberg and Chanarin and John Stezaker I can see how all these fit in together in how various bodies of work are being made and moving forward. The Photographers’ Gallery certainly threw down the gauntlet when it decided to curate these three exhibitions to the medium: Perspectives on Collage and Laura Letinsky – Ill Form and Void Full, Geraldo de Barros – What Remains.While Perspectives in Collage is a group show, Laura Letinsky and Brazilian Geraldo de Barros’ work stood on their own.<br />
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<b>Perspectives on collage</b><br />
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(side note I can't believe this stupid web page dictionary does not recognise the word collage?)<br />
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This was a group show featuring 8 differing approaches to photo collage to "broaden ideas around the practice into areas including sculpture and installation." Promising myself to not write too much I won't go into great detail, some I didn't like, some I did but as ever the premise of coming to an exhibition isn't to "like" everything you look at but to see if you can learn different ways to present your work or tell a narrative.<br />
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Jan Svoboda, Peggy Franck, Nicole Wermers (seen previously at Saatchi Out of Focus) Batia Suter, Anna Parkina, C K Rajan, Roy Arden and Clunie Reid.<br />
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Jan Svoboda used torn up and folded remnants of his own work in simple arrangements. - I couldn't work out what message if anything he was trying to send?<br />
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Peggy Franck creates assemblages from everyday materials in her studio - interesting to look at but what is the underlying message? Is there one?<br />
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Nicole Wermers borrows motifs from the world of design, fashion advertising and architecture magazines and makes abstractions. I enjoyed these, liked her work previously. I can see how the ideas of seduction in advertising play out in her visually seductive pieces.<br />
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Batia Suter used a diverse selection of books in her floor piece Wave to "suggest poetic connections within encyclopaedic knowledge." Ok if you say so? Looks like a tidier version of my floor when doing research for my essays.....<br />
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Anna Parkina works in sculpture,painting,photography and performance. Apparently the Russian avant-garde echoes through her work. I can read into these how Russian society is altering, old statues and snippets of propaganda are there, society is as fragmented as her pieces. That may be her message it may not be, but at least I could read something into them and more effort had gone into creating it rather than oh lets say, skimming thru a lot of books to find images of boats then plopping them on the floor?<br />
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C K Rajan overlays two contrasting newspaper or magazine images, surreal works responding..."tangentially to...economic modernisation...social and cultural contradictions." One of my favourites I think, images cleverly put together showing the contrasts of old and new, poverty and big business and the juxtaposition they have in developing countries.<br />
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Roy Arden works across media including painting, sculpture, photography and video. I wasn't quite sure with his, think I need to research more. Very bright, very busy, image below is Rich Tapestry of Life and I get that, but still not convinced.....<br />
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Clunie Reid used marker pen, slickers holographic paper and sticky tape, borrowed from advertising, the internet and the internet to "throw our image worlds into sharp critical light." Messy, childlike scribbles, too pink for my taste, random and jumbled but I guess that may be the message about what our visual world today is? Overloaded, messy, poor quality with no coherence?<br />
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The exhibition aimed to "highlight the enduring relevance of collage across a range of creative practice" in that I think it was really successful. Am laughing to myself because at the time when walking around I was scratching my head for a lot of it thinking the usual "why is it here, what am I looking at, that is rubbish" but when you have the time to reflect, think about what the images are saying more than the image itself then you understand them more. A kind of light bulb moment, this is where I need to tie in what I am trying to achieve with what I do achieve. Sometimes its more about the message, the image does not need to be technically brilliant, although that would be nice as long as the message gets across you've done what you set out to do. Also successful as it starts to spark ideas of how you can present your own photography.<br />
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<b>Laura Letinsky – Ill Form and Void Full</b><br />
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The first thing to comment upon is how this exhibit was curated, with Letinsky deliberately choosing not to place her work under glass. Quite ironic because of her statement below :<br />
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"Everything gets spoiled. Nothing remains pure, unsullied. The whites are always sullied, they're wrinkled, they’re stained, there’s marks on the wall, or else they're blindingly white so you almost can't look at them and you can't see anything in them. The white is sort of this play on our expectations or desire for perfection and the impossibility of that."<br />
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There was debate over one image that had dirty splats on, was it part of the image? A lot argued it was, however I asked one of the members of staff who told me nope, a visitor had splashed his drink and they were now being more conscious of telling the audience to step back, not get so close and don't touch ...so anyone wondering I've cleared that mystery up.<br />
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A really interesting video is here which makes so much sense, and isn't full of a photographer giving lots of what I term psychobabble, about why something was made or a deeper meaning behind an image. Robert Enoch was our tutor that day and he was full of enthusiasm for this work which made sure I looked at it deeply and didn't just dismiss it out of hand.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1970612328">http://player.vimeo.com/video/57683797</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1970612328">http://www.5280.com/blogs/2013/03/14/meet-artist-laura-letinsky</a><br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.aperture.org/blog/interview-with-laura-letinsky/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.aperture.org/blog/interview-with-laura-letinsky/</span></a></span><br />
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When I started to think about my critical essay these 3 exhibitions were in the back of my mind although none of the artists got mentioned in the end but the thought processing were there over is photography made or taken.<br />
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My initial response when looking at her work was to wonder how it was created, what shadows were real, what were part of the cut out. I noted that she likes working with natural light, so do I but in this country and with my rooms it isn't always easy or possible :o/ Then I started to try and "read" what was going on within the work. Without going into this too much, I could write reams, about the inclusion of tape, her exquisite sense of colour etc I found her work really interesting, complex with a lot of underlying messages, the video and interview links will go into the detail I don't have time to comment on here. Well worth seeing.<br />
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<b> Geraldo de Barros – What Remains</b><br />
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A key figure in Brazilian art and design he at first experimented with multiple exposures, rotations, over-painting and scratching negatives. He put photography aside and revisited the medium late in life after having a series of strokes. In the last 2 years of his life he made <i>Sobras - </i>Remains<i>. </i>Over 250 collages which incorporated some of his<i> Fotoformas</i> series.The exhibition traced subtle connections across the two series. (blurb re-hashed from the exhibition leaflet)<br />
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To be honest I don't remember much about his work, but we had taken in two exhibitions this day (Light from the Middle East) and saw so much it doesn't surprise me. Googling his work I found quite a bit to enjoy and it showed another way of producing and using your work, changing direction out of necessity etc.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/15393/1/geraldo-de-barros-what-remains">http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/15393/1/geraldo-de-barros-what-remains</a><br />
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<a href="http://centrefortheaestheticrevolution.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/geraldo-de-barros-what-remains-curated.html">http://centrefortheaestheticrevolution.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/geraldo-de-barros-what-remains-curated.html</a><br />
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All in all a good day out and with lots to think about and possibly experiment with incorporating into my own work at some stage. Thanks once again to the OCA for organising these visits which are always worthwhile!Jan Fairburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09205082539210417748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880584662398935243.post-73209244712931834832013-11-01T12:26:00.001-07:002013-11-01T17:32:22.052-07:00Sebastião Salgado: Genesis NHM 2013::::Jumps up and down in excitement:::: I am getting there...at last I am getting there.. I have been putting this one on the backburner as I don't know where to start and what to say first. How can you love and hate an exhibition at the same time?<br />
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To paraphrase Shakespeare, Sebastião, Sebastião, where for art thou Sebastião?<br />
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He was there and yet again he wasn't.<br />
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Sighs, lets start at the beginning and work my way through my thoughts as best I can. I have read several reviews online and most vary from sycophantic dribbling which failed to recognise some of the obvious flaws of this body of work to others which are highly critical and don't seem to recognise any of its beauty or worth, quibbling over the use of words such as "unspoilt". I missed the OCA study visit and it would have been great to walk around with others to bounce my ideas off but never mind. It's odd that even months later I am still having difficulties in putting down what I want to.<br />
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Genesis is the culmination of 8 years work, journeying through 32 countries, capturing mountains, deserts and oceans, animals and people. The majority of photographers will throw their hat into the ring of one genre or another, Salgado does not. He captures landscape, wildlife, portraiture and mixes it altogether in the guise of the documentary.<br />
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Over 200 of Sebastião Salgado’s black-and-white documentary photographs were on show and although it was brilliant to go to an exhibition that had so much work from one artist I think this is the first failing I shall mention. There were too many of the same kind of shot, how many marching penguins can you look at when one just one or two stunning shots would have sufficed?<br />
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The second issue which I'd bring up before I get onto discussing the photography itself is the sponsorship by an apparently dubious company, Vale Mining. I am sure there are others who can be more eloquent about the politics and the rights and wrongs of them putting up the funds so will not go there. Although I agree it may taint your opinion of the photographer's morals and in some instances it maybe that in some circumstances there might be political gerrymandering behind such funding I don't think this was the case here and should not impact on a critical review of the images on display.<br />
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<a href="http://www.vale.com/brasil/EN/aboutvale/news/Pages/sebastiao-salgado-inaugura-mostra-no-brasil.aspx">http://www.vale.com/brasil/EN/aboutvale/news/Pages/sebastiao-salgado-inaugura-mostra-no-brasil.aspx</a><br />
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And there's the rub, to critically review the images...composition, drama, content, tonality, contrasts. While I loved some of that list OMG!! Sebastião , why didn't someone tell you to put down the dodge and burn and step away? With some of the images it was like walking through an HDR nightmare. What were you thinking? Who removed the word subtle from your lexicon? What had that poor sea-lion done to you? Are your assistants too enamoured of you to take you to one side and whisper "erm boss don't you think you've overcooked it a tad?"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sebastião Salgado Genesis - Sea-lion</td></tr>
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Salgado wanted to show an untouched world, shame he didn't give his prints the same consideration! I'd love to see what the "real" images look like. Go on Seb, you know you want to, put down the contrast slider and show us what they're really made of.<br />
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All of which made me feel really sad, it was unnecessary and spoilt some truly remarkable photography. This leads onto another criticism aimed at his work, that he makes the world look beautiful, he romanticises it, makes it too aesthetically pleasing, something thrown at Burtynsky too but so what? There are enough people out there doing gritty realism it's a relief to just step back and look at some of the wonders of this planet. You don't hear many people yelling "stop making it all look lovely" at David Attenborough, do you? I have secret crushes on all 3 lol.<br />
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It is hard to strip away the overproduction and look just at the composition, depth of field and the detail in these images but when you do you can't help but realise this is a master at work even if you don't like the finished article. Not all are so contrasty, there is quality to the work on show and despite the obvious "ick" bits (can't you tell I am fed up with proper photography critique vocabulary) I really enjoyed most of this exhibition. which was a master class in the use of light, shapes and form.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Sebastião Salgado Genesis - Elephant</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Sebastião Salgado Genesis - Zebras</td></tr>
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What did I take away from this exhibition? That I still like Salgado despite the wrong turn he may have taken with his digital manipulation, that while digital manipulation is acceptable to get the best out of your RAW image don't, just don't over do it! Some may say that he hasn't moved on, that his work is too old fashioned, I don't care. Some photographers try out new things and I prefer their older stuff. They can't win whatever they do. Am hoping that someone buys me his book for my birthday!<br />
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<a href="http://www.disphotic.lewisbush.com/2013/06/06/review-sebastiao-salgados-genesis-at-natural-history-museum/">http://www.disphotic.lewisbush.com/2013/06/06/review-sebastiao-salgados-genesis-at-natural-history-museum/</a><br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.weareoca.com/photography/cant-make-up-my-mind/</span></span><br />
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