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        • SECTARIAN MURDER
        • Sarah Pickering – Public Order
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        • THE DAD PROJECT / COUNTRY DOCTOR
        • THE VISUAL DEPICTION OF A POEM
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        • PART 3 PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE PICTURE – MY DIARY
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      • My thoughts on setting out on the Context and Narrative Course
      • THE CAMERA NEVER LIES!
      • In an Alien World
      • STREET PHOTOGRAPHY – SOME THOUGHTS
      • WAYS OF SEEING – JOHN BERGER
      • TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE – THAT IS THE QUESTION
      • TO LEAVE OR NOT – FURTHER THOUGHTS
      • MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY
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      • POSTMODERN NARRATIVE
      • THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS MY PROOF
      • MY LAST POST
      • MY LAST POST REVISITED
      • CHANGING PERCEPTIONS
      • THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVE AND PERSONAL CONNECTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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  • THE FRAME – FITTING THE FRAME TO THE SUBJECT
  • OBJECT IN DIFFERENT POSITIONS IN THE FRAME
  • THE FRAME – A SEQUENCE OF COMPOSITION
  • FOCAL LENGTHS
  • DIVIDING THE FRAME
  • FRAME SHAPES AND SIZES
  • THE FRAME – CROPPING
  • PART 2 – ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PROJECT – POINTS
  • PART 2 ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PROJECT – LINES
  • PART TWO. PROJECT – USING LINES IN COMPOSITION
  • PART 2 PROJECT – SHAPES
  • PART 2 PROJECT – RHYTHM AND PATTERN
  • PART 3 CONTROL THE STRENGTH OF A COLOUR
  • PART 4 LIGHT – JUDGING COLOUR TEMPERATURE PART 1
  • PART 4 LIGHT – JUDGING COLOUR TEMPERATURE PART 2
  • PART 3 – EXERCISE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY COLOURS
  • PART 3 EXERCISE – COLOUR RELATIONSHIPS
  • PART 3. EXERCISE – COLOURS INTO TONES IN BLACK & WHITE
  • PART 4 – LIGHT Measuring Exposure
  • PART 4 LIGHT – VARIETY WITH A LOW SUN
  • PART 4 LIGHT – EXERCISE CLOUDY WEATHER AND RAIN
  • PART 4 LIGHT – OUTDOORS AT NIGHT
  • PART 4 – LIGHT. EXERCISE – SOFTENING THE LIGHT
  • PART 4 – LIGHT. EXERCISE – THE LIGHTING ANGLE
  • PART 4 LIGHT – CONTRAST AND SHADOW FILL
  • NARRATIVE – A NARRATIVE PICTURE ESSAY
  • ILLUSTRATION EXERCISE – EVIDENCE OF ACTION
  • PART FIVE. EXERCISE – SYMBOLS
  • PART 5. EXERCISE – JUXTAPOSITION
  • PART 5. ILLUSTRATION EXERCISE – RAIN
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  • ASSIGNMENT 5
  • INITIAL THOUGHTS – MAY 2014
  • STRUGGLING TO TAKE OFF!
  • 20th June 2014
  • Update to Learning Log – June 19th 2014
  • WHAT MAKES A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH? OR A BAD ONE?
  • 5 QUESTIONS TO ASK TO BECOME A BETTER PHOTOGRAPHER
  • THE PHOTOGRAPH BY GRAHAM CLARKE
  • THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S EYE – MICHAEL FREEMAN
  • TERROR, PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHERS’ BLOCK
  • PHOTOGRAPHY – A MYSTICAL MIX OF CURIOSITY AND PERSISTENCE.
  • Photography with Love and Dignity
  • BEHIND THE IMAGE – ANNA FOX AND NATASHA CARUANA
  • RECENT RESOURCE ACQUISITIONS
  • PHOTOGRAPHING MOVEMENT
  • SOME THOUGHTS ON LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHS
  • Photography and the Law
  • PHOTOGRAPHING THE ECLIPSE
  • A REVIEW OF THE COURSE
  • STUDY COURSE – ARTES MUNDI, CARDIFF, 14.11.14
  • James Ravilious exhibition, Barnstaple
  • PHILIP CLARKE – PEMBROKESHIRE PHOTOGRAPHER
  • RICK SMOLLEN – A DAY IN THE LIFE SERIES / TRACKS, ETC.
  • STEVEN REED – LANDSCAPE AND WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER

DAVID GARDNER PHOTOGRAPHY

ASSIGNMENTS – C & N

ASSIGNMENT 2 – RESPONSE TO FORMATIVE FEEDBACK

While I was considering my approach to the Assignment in Part 3 of the C&N course, I revisited my two earlier C&N Assignments to see what I could learn from my approach to those and, more particularly, from my tutor’s formative feedback that would assist me. This made me realise that I had not revisited […]Read Post ›

REFLECTION ON C&N ASSIGNMENT 2

REFLECTION ON PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN  –  RELATIONSHIPS Having completed Assignment 2 of the Context & Narrative course I am now taking time to reflect on the work I have created and the processes I used in its creation.  I will use the OCA’s formal Assessment Criteria Points as a framework for this reflection and review. […]Read Post ›

ASSIGNMENT 2 – PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN

PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN  –  RELATIONSHIPS Having given considerable thought and planning to this Assignment as evidenced by an earlier post I have decided to explore a number of aspects of the subject of relationships in a visual way.  In keeping with the aim of this Assignment I am using visual allusion and metaphor to represent […]Read Post ›

PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN Preparatory work for Assignment 2

REVIEW OF PART 2 As Assignment 2 effectively asks me to explore and put into practice the ideas, practices  and concepts introduced in the foregoing Projects and Exercises in Part 2 of the course it seems to me that a useful starting point for my planning of this Assignment 2 would be to briefly review […]Read Post ›

SELF ASSESSMENT OF ASSIGNMENT 1

SELF-ASSESSMENT I have reviewed the work I have done for Assignment 1 against the required Assessment Criteria Points as set out in the Course Handbook and I will now evaluate how I believe the work measures up to the Criteria. —–   o0o   —– Demonstration of Technical and Visual Skills   My purpose for this […]Read Post ›

C&N ASSIGNMENT 1

TWO SIDES OF THE STORY This Assignment asks me to create two sets of photographs telling different versions of the same story.  The aim of the Assignment is to help me to explore the convincing nature of documentary, even though what the viewer thinks they see might not be the truth.  I am asked to […]Read Post ›

THOUGHTS ON ASSIGNMENT 1

I have been thinking about the C and N Assignment 1 for several weeks now and have found it very difficult to find any theme that I can get behind with any enthusiasm. I have looked at the work that other students have done for this Assignment and have noted that the range of approaches […]Read Post ›

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