Monthly Archives: January 2013
On being a photographer, by bill jay and david hurn
I’d heard of David Hurn before but never really seen any of his work, so I was looking forward to reading this with interest. It turns out to have been the book that I have enjoyed reading the most so far in my OCS studies and I’d wish I’d read it earlier. For the most […]
EXERCISE 1: PORTRAIT–SCALE AND SETTING
One of the things that I found most interesting when reading the introduction to this course was the idea that the work on this course will be as much about social relationships as about photography. The idea of photographing people in various guises, such as people aware and people unaware, has made me very enthusiastic […]
Where I find inspiration…..……
Studying The Art of Photography led me to many places and a lot of photographers, many of whose work I liked, but some I didn’t. I remember getting really stuck for a while on Part Three of TAOP which dealt with colour. I’d been focusing on B&W for a long time, so to suddenly have […]
Can’t wait to get started!
With the final assignment of TAOP gone off on DVD to my tutor, I decided that the time was right to make a start on People and Place. Whilst I enjoyed TAOP and learned a vast amount, there was always this feeling that P&P was the one I really wanted to do. It seemed like a […]
My People and Place Learning Log 