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        • EXERCISE – THE MANIPULATED IMAGE
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        • THE DAD PROJECT / COUNTRY DOCTOR
        • THE VISUAL DEPICTION OF A POEM
        • PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN – EXERCISE
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        • PART 3 PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE PICTURE – MY DIARY
        • AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF-PORTRAITURE
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        • PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN Preparatory work for Assignment 2
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    • C & N LEARNING LOG
      • 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
      • RELAY IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE
      • 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
      • MOVING ON AND OUT
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  • INTRODUCTION – FOCUS
  • TAoP PART 1 EXERCISES
  • TAoP PART 2 EXERCISES
  • TAoP PART 3 EXERCISES
  • TAoP PART 4 EXERCISES
  • TAoP PART 5 EXERCISES
  • 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
  • ASSIGNMENT 1
  • ASSIGNMENT 2
  • ASSIGNMENT 3
  • ASSIGNMENT 4
  • 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

C & N LEARNING LOG

MOVING ON AND OUT

MOVING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION This Post is being typed over the space left by my half completed, but now deleted, C&N Assignment 3 which, as I have taken the decision to leave the course, is no longer relevant to me, hence the deletion.  The decision comes as a result of personal year’s end reflections and Resolutions […]Read Post ›

CHANGING PERCEPTIONS

TWO PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS  –  TWO RESPONSES I had an excellent opportunity to compare two styles of photographs last Tuesday and to be aware of my interesting responses to them.  I have recently joined a U3A photography group in order to feel some connection with fellow local photographers and to open myself to the learning opportunities […]Read Post ›

MY LAST POST REVISITED

LIGHT STARTS TO BREAK THROUGH THE MIST AND CONFUSION  A week is a long time in politics – and also in OCA photography courses it would seem.  Since I published my ‘last post’, in which I said that I had decided to leave the C&N course and the OCA, a lot has happened.  After posting […]Read Post ›

MY LAST POST

GOODBYE TO THE OCA COURSE I have come to a final and very difficult decision.  After considerable thought, soul searching and indecision I have finally decided that I no longer want to continue with the  Context & Narrative course and I am therefore withdrawing from the OCA Photography degree course.  This is particularly difficult for me […]Read Post ›

THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS MY PROOF

“The best part of us is not what we see, it’s what we feel. We are what we feel. We are not what we look at… We’re not our eyeballs, we’re our mind. People believe their eyeballs and they’re totally wrong… That’s why I consider most photographs extremely boring – just like Muzak, inoffensive, charming, […]Read Post ›

POSTMODERN NARRATIVE

In order to lead me into the consideration of postmodernism in art and literature, I am asked to read and reflect on two essays by Roland Barthes (1915 – 80), a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and critic who, inter alia, expended considerable time and effort on trying to dismantle myths of popular culture.  THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR […]Read Post ›

FEEDBACK RECEIVED – ASSIGNMENT 1 CONTEXT & NARRATIVE

FEEDBACK ON MY 1ST ASSIGNMENT AND COURSE WORK TO DATE TOGETHER WITH MY RESPONSE   Pasted below is the feedback I received from Russell, my tutor, on the work I have done on the first part of the Context & Narrative course for which I am grateful. Formative feedback Student name David Gardner Student number 513007 […]Read Post ›

RELAY IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE

‘TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF‘  AND  ‘OBJECTS IN THE FIELD‘ By way of looking at a Research Point I am directed towards two examples of relay in use in contemporary photographic practice.  The first, Sophie Calle’s ‘Take Care of Yourself‘, explores the text of an email received by the artist from a lover in which he […]Read Post ›

MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY

The opportunity came up to attend a two day course in macro photography locally so, as these sort of things do not happen often, I jumped at the chance.  The course, held over the weekend of 9th and 10th July 2016 was led by James Dunbar (*1) , an experienced wildlife photographer and film maker […]Read Post ›

TO LEAVE OR NOT – FURTHER THOUGHTS

Today is the day for me to discuss my thoughts with my tutor and I am nervous about how it will go.  I do not like telephone conversations at the best of times because I find it difficult to establish a mental connection and rapport without also being able to establish a visual connection.  I […]Read Post ›

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