Monthly Archives: February 2013
Thoughts on Assignment 1
As I’m drawing near to the last few exercises of Part One of the course, I’ve been thinking hard about what to do for the assignment. During TAOP, for the most part, I was out and about waiting for things to happen, and one of my tutor’s comments in the final assignment feedback was that […]
Exercise 5: Eye contact and expression
More often than not in my portrait photography I’ve tried to encourage eye contact, but as I think about it, that’s not really through any personal preference. It’s more because eye contact in portraits seems to be generally considered the way to go. This exercise was the first time I’ve instructed someone to look […]
Exercise 4 : An Active Portrait
An area of portraiture that I’ve been interested in for a while is contextual portrait; where the photographer places the subject in the context of what he / she does for work or other activities. This obviously necessitates including the subject’s surroundings in the image, and so a wide angle lens is useful for this […]
Exercise 3: Experimenting with light
While I was studying TAOP, I remember that Part four: Light was rather long, but very interesting. It really showed me that different light and different times of day can have a huge impact on my images, and so I was looking forward to furthering that study with this exercise in P&P. This time, though, […]
Exercise 2: Tｈinking about location
Recently in my photography, I have been trying to think more and more about the role that the background plays in the image. Most of my portraits are mainly focusing on the face, and the framing is usually head and shoulders, but since starting this course I’ve done a lot of reading in various books, […]
My People and Place Learning Log 