On Monday, I received my tutor’s comments on Assignment One and I think that the feedback was positive overall. It was good to receive the feedback from someone who works in the area that I’d chosen to use for the assignment. She knows the common pitfalls to avoid and pointed out a couple of areas […]
So I’ve really made some inroads into this section of the course in the past week. After months of stagnation and frustration, I seem to have worked my way back into enjoying what I’m doing in regards to OCA studies. I mentioned in a previous post about my idea to use daily life at a […]
I got my exercises mixed up here and did this one before he organised event exercise which I’ll hopefully be able to do this weekend. It probably wasn’t the best time or day to do this exercise, as it was a Thursday morning and there weren’t many people around or much going on. […]
Following on from the last few exercises regarding focal length, this one required me to use a standard focal length for shooting. According to the course handbook, on my camera this can be found in the region of 27mm to 32 mm, although personally I think it’s a little longer. On a full […]
Most of my street photography to date has been done with my 50mm f/2.8 or 55-250mm. Using the 50mm gives me the equivalent of 85mm, which for me more often than not works out fine. It also allows me the creativity of the wide aperture which I really enjoy. I often use […]
I really enjoyed this exercise for two reasons. First, it meant that my injuries are sufficiently healed enough for me to go for walks longer than five minutes, and secondly because I’ve always been interested in this kind of photography. As I mentioned in a previous post, having a longish focal length is useful in […]
For this exercise, I decided to use the same event as the last exercise as the jazz festival provided a lot of photo opportunities. This exercise was interesting because I’ve had problems before when having to choose what I consider to be the best image from a sequence. All through my studies with the OCA, […]
I’ve always been interested in street photography and candid portraiture, so it was a surprise to me that I found it really hard to get myself motivated for this section of the course. I’ve been through slumps in productivity before, but never for this long. Of course, this time I have a reasonable excuse in […]
I’m really glad this exercise came along when it did as it helped me get back on my feet photographically and literally. Now that I can get out and about again, the frustration level has diminished a lot, and my wife told that me that there was a jazz festival in town last night, […]
Finally I’ve managed to finish Assignment One! I started it way back in March or April, but then got totally side-tracked by work. When I finally found some time to get on with it, and had almost completed it, I got into a motorbike crash, (see previous post). This has kept me out of action […]
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