So September the 10th (2012) came and I was so nervous! As a class we all got on very quickly, we were told ''You've got to spend the next two years together - so to make life easier, get on.'' Our tutor Ian Bowles is so funny, you can have real laugh with him; but at the same time he has a serious side. We had a few weeks of getting to know Ian... and each other of course, we learned different camera techniques and got more of an understanding of what the course was about.. then we started our first assignment.
''Finding Form''
I was asked to produce a series of 9 photographs on the subject of 'Finding Form'. By this I mean images that show photographic elements such as, Line, Texture, Pattern, Shape, Shadows and Highlights and Composition, but they had to be in natural light. For every assignment we do, we are asked to follow the ''Creative Process.'' This consists of:- 1. Initial Ideas - 2. Research - 3. Ideas Development - 4. Shoots - 5. Selection - 6. Presentation -7. Final Evaluation - 8. Bibliography.
I decided I wanted to do fire and burnt bark, I argued the fact that fire is a natural light and was able to do the subject I had chosen. I really enjoyed the assignment, and it pushed me as a photographer to think more about the images I was taking, after only a few days I found myself thinking ''This photograph shows great... Pattern, Line and Texture'' - not that my images before this didn't, I was just able to see it more because I was constantly thinking it... Now it just comes naturally.
I got two distinctions in this assignment, and was very happy with my final images! (They're now hung on my bedroom wall!)
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