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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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      • C & N PART 4 EXERCISES
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        • PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN Preparatory work for Assignment 2
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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
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      • CHANGING PERCEPTIONS
      • THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVE AND PERSONAL CONNECTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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  • TAoP PART 4 EXERCISES
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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

C & N PART 1 EXERCISES

“THE REAL AND THE DIGITAL”

Liz Wells, in her book Photography: A Critical Introduction (4th edition 2009) (*1) wrote a section called ‘The Real and the Digital'(pages 73 – 75).  In it she questions the authenticity and ‘reality’ of photographs in the new age of digital when images can be manipulated and created to a previously unprecedented extent.  For this Exercise […]Read Post ›

EXERCISE – THE MANIPULATED IMAGE

The creation of composite images is now possible through the application of software technology in post-production. This Exercise asks me to use digital software such as Photoshop to create a composite image which visually appears to be a documentary photograph but which could never be. Whilst I have access to both Lightroom and Photoshop and […]Read Post ›

SARAH PICKERING – ‘PUBLIC ORDER’

This Exercise draws my attention to the work of photographer Sarah Pickering and in particular to her series Public Order produced in 2004. Initially, on looking at the first images it appears that the subject is a rather uninteresting and unpopulated English townscape.  The images have a bland and flat appearance and the question that arises […]Read Post ›

EXERCISE – STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

“A good photograph, like a good poem, is a self contained little universe inexhaustible to scrutiny”.     Rebecca Norris Webb, photographer —–   o0o   —– This exercise required me to visit a street that particularly interests me and to shoot 30 colour and 30 black & white images in a street photography style. […]Read Post ›

SECTARIAN MURDER

THE SECTARIAN MURDER SERIES Paul Seawright, Professor of Photography and Head of Belfast School of Art at the University of Ulster, visited the locations of 1970’s sectarian murders near his home in Belfast in order to take photographs.  The resulting 6 images printed as C-type prints in an edition of 5 are collectively referred to as […]Read Post ›

In an Alien World

I have been following and contributing to an interesting and developing forum on the OCA website which has thrown up many issues and ideas for me to consider.   The link to the thread is : –   http://www.oca-student.com/content/personal-voice It started off as a discussion on the question of a ‘personal voice’ and the merits of finding […]Read Post ›

EYEWITNESSES?

This first Exercise asks me to find some examples of news stories where ‘citizen journalism’ has exposed or highlighted abuses of power.  It then asks the questions : –  How do these pictures affect the story, if at all? Are these pictures objective? Can pictures ever be objective? ‘Citizen journalism’ is a recent concept which […]Read Post ›

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