Unfortunately, due to consuming a huge pot of strong filter coffee yesterday, and a bit of a virus type thing, I was unable to attend last night. However, to cheer myself up I did these at home…
I will be using these images as part of my still life assignment (light).
I also shall be cutting down on my coffee consumption.
Here’s a couple of shots from last night’s studio session:
I chose the wrong item to photograph tonight (last night now, I suppose) I didn’t think it through enough and the subsequent results were boring. My item was a wooden incense tower lit from the inside with a red bicycle LED. As I said the results were boring, technically the shots were OK, but you there was nothing about them grabbed you.
Infuriatingly, I got my best shot of the night whilst another student was setting up his item, an old Zenit camera.
Here it is:
Thankfully this was just a practice run for the real thing which will be after half term.
In other news, I managed to get the iPhone into Room 101.
With that I shall bid you farewell.
Evening all.
I came across a strange object tonight. After four long weeks. Weird looking thing it was, made of plastic and glass, with strange knobs everywhere…
After my initial shock, someone explained to me that it was a ‘camera’.
I am stuck now…
I need to rest after my traumatic evening.
Exposure, blah, blah, blah. Camera types, blah de blah. Etc.
That sounds horrible doesn’t it? Well I am tired so there. That sounds petty, but I don’t care because I am tired. Repeat to fade…
I think I have a better idea of where this course is going now. Things are starting to click in my head as to what is required of my actual coursework. I can now start properly researching and planning. Yay!
I am cracking on with the ‘still life’ bit as I type…
The ‘presentation and visual language’ part was fun tonight. We had to get into pairs and through visual language act out a scenario. I teamed up with Greg and out ‘improv’ to give it it’s real title was “You are the last two people at a party.” Cue much miming of dancing, drinking, stumbling and checking of pockets before finally stumbling out of the door. I would have performed this better after a few glasses bottles of wine, but ho hum.
Shouts of “Darlings, you were wonderful” and “Encore, encore” were ringing in the air as we took our seats to rapturous applause. I really mean laughter of course, but as with the wine, you can’t have it all.
Fun or pretentious twaddle, you, my dear friend can be the judge of that.
Until the next time, here is a beautiful still life by Roberto Badin for Elle (France)
“OK, I’ll give you five minutes to come up with a short story, but it must include at least two of these items. A skull, a shark’s jaw and a femur. And then you will get up and read it to the class”
Not what I was expecting from a photography course, but in the words of the mighty Ramones; beat on the brat hey ho…
But tonight wasn’t really about the snap, the pic, or even the photograph, it was about ‘presentation & visual language’
My story went like this:
It was a cold and dark night in the graveyard and Phil (the skull) was out for an evening stroll. Suddenly from out of the shadows came the disembodied jaws of a shark, and in those fearsome jaws was clamped the femur of an unknown soldier.
Phil froze in the moonlight, he was caught in its spotlight, for it was Phil Lynott out of Thin Lizzy. Nonchalantly he picked up the bone and threw it back from whence it came, with a rock ‘n roll “Fetch, boy”
Well, sort of like that.
The idea was to see how we spoke in from of an audience, and to think about how we could improve.
All well and good, but we still haven’t touched a camera. Maybe next week…
In other news, I shot a wedding on Saturday, below is picture of the happy couple Kate & Mark:
Toodle pip.
I bloody well won. My photograph is being made into postcards for sale at the Craven Museum in Skipton.
Chuffed.
My winning shot:
Second night of my degree course tonight. I decided I would cycle there today, hindsight being 20/20… More of that later though.
We were issued our first two modules tonight:
P1 - Techniques & Processes; An introduction to still life
P2 - Visual Communication; Meanings & Messages
P1 does exactly what it says on the tin, whilst P2 is a project to ‘Generate and produce photographic images that communicate meanings, messages and information’. This is the one I am most excited about.
We have roughly 13 weeks to complete both. So chop chop!
As you may remember, I cycled to college tonight. In shorts. The lesson finishes at 9.30pm, and at about 9.30 pm the heavens opened. As I sped through the rain getting wetter and wetter, I rallied myself by thinking I may just catch the end of the Liverpool/Northampton town Carling Cup match. Liverpool were 2-1 down to a league two side when I arrived home. Liverpool then equalised and it went to penalties. Liverpool lost 2-4 on penalties.
Thoroughly wet and cheesed off, I checked my emails for spam, but instead found this:
I cheered up no end, so much so that next time I may even write more about the actual course.
See you next Wednesday.
Well, today was my first time in a classroom in, well let’s just say a long time. I have enrolled on a foundation degree in photography course at Craven College in Skipton and today was induction day. Basically we went over the college ‘rules’ and met the tutor Paul Duxbury, who roughly explained the course content.
The first year consists of five modules:
1. Studio portraiture
2. Personal assignment (maybe two)
3. Er, I forget (Good start eh?) *
4. Set building
5. Self promotion
Suffice to say, I am pretty excited. It will be good to develop my skills, meet new people and bounce ideas around.
As the course progresses, I hope to post images here to give an idea of the things we will be doing.
Stay tuned.
* Still life
