David Gardner Photography

NARRATIVE – A NARRATIVE PICTURE ESSAY

EXERCISE – NARRATIVE PICTURE ESSAY For this exercise I was required to set myself an assignment and, through the use of 5 to 15 photographs, tell a story of an event or an activity. A planned visit with my partner to the Spring Cup National Road Races at the Oliver’s Mount circuit at Scarborough gave […]Read Post ›

WHAT MAKES A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH? OR A BAD ONE?

WHAT MAKES A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH? OR A BAD ONE? For some time, but particularly since starting this course, I have worried about the fact that a lot of what the cognoscenti consider to be exemplary and innovative photographs I find uninteresting, lifeless and/or unattractive no matter how long I look at them or how much […]Read Post ›

PART 4 – LIGHT. EXERCISE – THE LIGHTING ANGLE

LIGHT Exercise – The Lighting Angle For this Exercise my lounge diner had to be converted into a makeshift studio set up again as the aim was to light an object with artificial diffused light from a variety of angles including the back. I chose to photograph a sea shell as it had a rounded shape […]Read Post ›

PART 4 LIGHT – EXERCISE CLOUDY WEATHER AND RAIN

PART 4 LIGHT – EXERCISE Cloudy Weather and Rain This Exercise is in three parts and involved shooting scenes under three different weather conditions, namely 1. Sunny / cloudy; 2. Overcast; and 3. Rain. The purpose is to demonstrate the different effects that the different weather conditions will bring to photographs. PART 1. SUNNY WITH […]Read Post ›

ASSIGNMENT 4

ASSIGNMENT 4 – APPLYING LIGHTING TECHNIQUES ”……..knowing what kind of light serves your communication purposes best will allow you the extra creative opportunity to guide the viewer to the elements you want to emphasize in your image. Always remember, there is no bad light. The only bad light is the absence of it (and even […]Read Post ›

PART 4 LIGHT – VARIETY WITH A LOW SUN

PART 4 LIGHT – EXERCISE Variety with a Low Sun This is an Exercise to demonstrate some of the advantages of shooting a subject when the sun is low. There are a number of benefits that can be gained from shooting during the ‘golden hour’ when the sun is low on the horizon, whether it […]Read Post ›

PART 4 – LIGHT. EXERCISE – SOFTENING THE LIGHT

PART 4 – LIGHT. EXERCISE Softening the Light This Exercise requires two photos to be taken of one subject, the first to be taken with a naked artificial light bulb and the second with a diffusing material placed between the light source and the subject. The two images created were then to be […]Read Post ›

PHOTOGRAPHY – A MYSTICAL MIX OF CURIOSITY AND PERSISTENCE.

PERSISTENCE AS A KEY TO TAKING INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHS My attention was grabbed by a number of aspects of the short article (copied below) by Jake Rutherford in a recent internet posting by National Geographic. Firstly, his use of post-it notes to highlight images in books is one that I will be adopting more frequently as a reminder and […]Read Post ›

PART 4 LIGHT – OUTDOORS AT NIGHT

PART 4 LIGHT – EXERCISE Outdoors At Night As there is little scope for urban night time photography in the rural area in which I live I used the opportunity of a recent trip to Scarborough to explore this exercise. I had not brought my tripod on the trip so all shots had to […]Read Post ›

PART 4 LIGHT – JUDGING COLOUR TEMPERATURE PART 2

PART 4 LIGHT – EXERCISE Judging Colour Temperature 2 For this second part of the Exercise, I went back to the subject I used in Part 1 and retook the three images taken in sunlight, shade and evening light, but this time using 3 different White Balance settings, namely ‘sunshine’, ‘average’ (AWB) and ‘shadow’. The […]Read Post ›