Use the Xmas holidays to ensure your sketch book is up to date. If the following work is not in your sketch book and annotated we will have to assess your suitability for continuing with the course.
F413: Coursework Portfolio
- Candidates produce a portfolio of work from starting points, topics or themes determined by their centre.
- The focus is on including work that shows exploration, research and acquisition of techniques and skills.
For each you must include evidence of research into other photographers work and your own interpretation of it. All images must be annotated using the guidelines earlier in the blog.
You must make it very clear which are your images by providing the technical info of shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. You should also get into the habit on commenting on the differences these settings make.
As it says above you need to demonstrate an acquisition of techniques and skills so you need to include your darkroom work.
You should also be experimenting with Photoshop, liquifying and layering opacity are good tools to start with.
Even showing the differences in cropping and framing are important and you can do this by printing screen shots of what you have done.
A Christmas Portraiture project is 'Hands', we discussed this in class, for those of you that missed it, think about photographing relatives hands and thinking about the stories behind the jewelry and the lives that have been lived, memories that can be passed down.You can add to your Texture pictures, close ups of baubles on trees are good for depth of field and lighting. Food leftovers, turkey carcasses in a Martin Parr style can also be good.
You took some pictures using the film SLR. We will be developing these in the dark room in January, so if you have access to a film camera (it doesnt have to be SLR), get yourself a film and shoot a reel. Take it to snappy snaps and ask them just to develop the negatives. We can then enlarge and print these negs in the dark room. I have a few spare reels of film if you have difficulty buying them (Jessops and Snappy Snaps do them, you need Ilford, ISO 100, 200 or 400).
You may find it useful to get some of your digital images printed out professionally. Put them on a memory stick and take to one of the above shops or upload to a site like Snapfish or Photobox. These usually offer discounts for big orders, try and go for matt, with a white border and 7x8, these tend to look better than 6x4.
Thats all folks!
Make sure you take lots of pictures, look at lots of photography sites, print it all out and annotate!
