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10/1/17

Notes from our lecture this morning on different photographers and their projects.

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9/12/16

Contextual Studies lecture on modernism notes.

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8/12/16

Today was mostly spent catching up with blog posts/journal work, such as printing out images and uploading work I had done previously. In the afternoon, we had to go into the photography studio and take portrait photos of each other using a 35mm film camera, we had to dress each other up in extravagant outfits to create quite bold images. we are going to use the images during a workshop on Monday.

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5/12/16

These are the best images from the shoot we did revolving around motion blur. I decided that the images would work really well in low light as it would make the effect of the blur in the available light more prominent. To capture the images, I had to use the shutter speed priority mode on my camera and turned the shutter speed way down to elongate the amount of time that the light is exposed to the sensor which creates the motion blur effect. For my first few images, I had Ivan run down a few steps while I had my camera set to a three second shutter speed, which created a nice amount of blur with the movement of his legs going down the staircase. For my next few images I had ivan do something similar but with his head, I asked him to shake it back and forth as fast as possible while my camera was on a 1 second shutter speed, which created almost a creepy effect as his face is almost completely blurred out but the rest of his body still looks normal and clear.

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30/11/16

Andrea Dabene - Artist Research

Andrea Dabene is a French photographer but was born in Austin, Texas. She loves travelling and a lot of her photography is directly inspired by the nature she encounters on her travels. She does equal parts of landscape, scenic photography and up close, portrait photography. This appeals to me because I also like to experiment with both landscape and portrait photography. She also uses a lot of different subject matter in her photography, her main focus is usually scenery and nature, vast bodies of water or forests and leaves but sometimes she does more photos of people and individual objects.

Andrea takes a lot of her photography while she is travelling, this means a lot of her photos are very brightly lit and the natural outdoors sunlight. The main technique she uses for creating dark spaces is taking her images from inside a space such as the back of a car or from inside a tent and exposes for the light outside to almost create a frame around the images. It is a very effective way of drawing the eye of the viewer to the centre of the images.

In a lot of her portrait photos of people she has the subject ‘s face covered which gives off a very abstract look which I like because I find that sometimes regular portraiture can be an awkward experience at times so having the subjects face covered by the hair or having them face the other way appeals to me. This technique also creates the illusion that the subject didn’t know the photo was being taken, this make the images seem more off the cuff and spontaneous rather than properly set up and structured portrait photo.

A lot of Dabene’s photos use the subject matter of reflections in water, this relates to my project as a lot of the images from my first two shoots focused on reflections in water. Using the reflections as the subject matter for her photography gives the images a bit more of an abstract look and makes for a very good creative tool to create much more interesting photos.

http://www.andreadabene.com