Looking at Mona Kuhn’s work I was particularly struck by her use of reflections and abstraction. In her series ‘She Disappeared into Complete Silence’ she made use of reflective foil, this is my attempt to do something in a similar vein. I was unsure about how she created them so had to experiment with positioningContinue reading “Mona Kuhn Influences”
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Bauhaus Influences
Looking into Bauhaus, in particular László Moholy-Nagy, Iwao Yamawaki and Elsa Thiemann, I decided to have a go at doing Bauhaus my way. It’s not easy to do Bauhaus where I live, there’s no brutalist buildings or modern architecture. So I constructed something that I felt paid homage to the idea by using a hand-crafted woodenContinue reading “Bauhaus Influences”
Zoom – Blade Runner Influences
After researching zoom, these are my attempts at Blade Runneresque photographs. As with those in the film, my photograph is an innocuous scene shot through a mirror. I certainly don’t have gigapixel capabilities but the picture still lets your eye roam where it will as there is nothing obvious as a focal point. The gazeContinue reading “Zoom – Blade Runner Influences”
Fun with aperture control
There is a knack to knowing what aperture control to set so that you get everything you want in focus whilst still blurring the background. I had a few disappointments when areas I wanted to be sharp weren’t for example in the butterfly photograph at the top of the post. What I needed was forContinue reading “Fun with aperture control”
Framing is a series thing
Exercise 1.4 I have been tackling Project 2 Exercise 1.4 Frame but I’m not at all sure I have correctly understood this. There was no digital grid on my camera, so I placed the desired subject of my photograph either top, bottom, right, left or centre. Looking back at research on Thomas Ruff, he photographed in seriesContinue reading “Framing is a series thing”
Thomas Ruff Influences
After having looked at Thomas Ruff as a research point, I had a go myself using the technique in the course book. I chose this photograph because ther was a strong contrast beween the foreground and background and the trellis gave a structured line. by re-sizing the photograph to 180 pixels wide and saving atContinue reading “Thomas Ruff Influences”
A Transparent Window On The World
In photography it seems that what is left out is as important as what is left in. By definition, every shot must be cropped as there is a physical limit to what can be captured through a lens. Perhaps the point here is the purposeful limitation of shot by the photographer in order to exclude information fromContinue reading “A Transparent Window On The World”
Exploring Lines and Flats
Project 2: Ex 1.3: line One challenge for me during this current Covid-19 crisis is that my photographic subject material may be a bit limited. Living in a rural location and having to avoid unnecessary social contact leaves me with a plethora of fields and countryside scenes and very little else. This I will take as anContinue reading “Exploring Lines and Flats”
Point
Exercise 1.2 I was once told a long time ago by Phil Thompson, a trainer for BBC TV, that it was good to go ahead and break the rules but important to know and understand what you were breaking and why. With this in mind, I created a still life scene that was pleasing toContinue reading “Point”
The Instrument: Project 1
The mission for Exercise 1.1 was to take 3-4 photographs and see how the histogram will change, despite no obvious changes being made to the shot. The shots would probably have been improved if I had used a tripod but even so the resulting photographs illustrate the subtle difference that occurs within a very, shortContinue reading “The Instrument: Project 1”
Katies Photographic Journey 