Monthly Archives: March 2016
Exercise 2.8 Fill-flash
Flash isn’t just useful to illuminate a dark scene, but to bring out a foreground subject with a flash that is balanced with ambient light – be that sunlight or artificial light. You can see many examples of fill-flash in … Continue reading
Exercise 2.7 People in light
Take a series of photographs of the same person in different kinds of light. Do this over a week or so – certainly on more than one occasion. Aim to make at least nine photographs and mount them in a … Continue reading
Exercise2.6 Near and Far
This exercise is about depth in the frame. Now you understand depth of field, you can use deep focus to photograph a figure in an environment, combining portrait with landscape and emphasizing the sense of space. Choose an interesting environment … Continue reading
Kevin Carter (1960-1994)
As part of my research for the Near and far exercise I have looked at the work of Kevin Carter and in particular his Pullizer award picture “Sudan 1993”. It is a most disturbing picture showing a starving African girl in … Continue reading
Exercise 2.5 An identi-kit portrait
The exercise involved taking four passport type pictures, then folding the final prints into squareish tubes and photographing the result in different combinations. Having taken the pictures the next job was to upload them into Photoshop. I put all four images … Continue reading
Exercise 2.4 The two-dimensional plane
The chemist shop at the Black Country Living Museum is a replica of Mr Harold Emile Doo’s shop, previously in Halesowen Road, Netherton. The fittings and early 1920’s stock was donated by the Doo family to the museum. Each day a member … Continue reading
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