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How To Conquer The Dreaded Paper Mountain

How To Conquer The Dreaded Paper Mountain

Have you ever struggled to deal with the Paper Mountain?

Paper is one of life’s curious things.  It’s completely inanimate and yet with a propensity to breed until you’re suddenly drowning in the stuff!

Writers often suffer the Paper Mountain.  When you are surrounded by stacks of papers, often a mix of everything!  Character profiles, old scenes, bank statements, that really important document…

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Paper Mountain

For this task, we were put into groups and asked to show the qualities of paper in a photographic way. After a considerable amount of discussion, we decided to use natural window light and paper torn in several ways, then formed into shapes.

We used a canon 5d mk2, a tripod, and an 85mm macro lens. This lens was chosen as we wanted to use one small sheet of paper as the base upon which to place our shapes and as it allowed us to really concentrate on the qualities of the papers themselves.

In the first 6 images, we just adjusted the angles of the shots, the shutter times, the F-Stop and focal point. As it was a mixed lighting day it gave us different colour temperatures and shadows. We experimented with crushed paper as a frame but quickly discarded this as it made the shot too cluttered and we felt that it detracted from the image as a whole.

With the last 3 images in our series, we used a 2.8f and a much slower shutter speed of 1/20 second. We placed the tripod in a fixed spot directly above the target and as one of us shot another of us blew the various forms of paper, in slightly different directions and at different powers.

This finally gave us the look and feel we were after. This really shows us in quite a minimalistic and abstract way the qualities of the paper we used. We are very happy with this result as it showed our planning, execution and final delivery are what we had hoped to achieve.

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Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make this a beautiful afternoon celebrating the #RT_samplr book! The official Perth book launch for the #RT_samplr project happened on Sunday, 3 May, 3.30 - 5.30pm. The book can now be purchased online here http://clairebushby.bigcartel.com/product/rt_samplr-book or by contacting [email protected] Photography courtesy of Neil Francis.

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Preparations for the #RT_samplr High Tea/Book Launch have been going well under the close supervision of Portia the cat!

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Join us to celebrate the official Perth launch of the #RT_samplr book with High Tea at Paper Mountain's The Common Room. RSVP is essential for catering purposes so please register your attendance, thank you! #RT_samplr books will be available for purchase at $22 and a selection of the original works will be exhibited. For more info on the #RT_samplr project please visit: http://www.rtsamplr.info/ and https://twitter.com/RT_samplr 

If you can't make it to the ‪#‎RT_samplr‬ high tea book launch you don't have to miss out on the book! It can be purchased online at Big Cartel

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PAPER MOUNTAIN ART AUCTION

We’re in this exhibition of works to be auctioned at Paper Mountain! The show will raise much needed funds for our fave ARI. Our work is a continuation of a painting that began as a mural and then became a coracle. It’s framed in the same marine ply treated with linseed oil that we used to build our coracle. Please come!

Opening Night Auction 6 – 9pm, Saturday 11 October

Exhibition Dates: 11 - 19 October

Featured Artists: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, David Attwood, Jacqueline Ball, Trevor Bly, Emily Boyd, Olga Cironis, Sheridan Coleman, Tom Freeman, Teelah George, Kate Greenaway, Simone Johnston, Loren Kronemyer, David Ledger, Alex Maciver, Minaxi May, Mark Parfitt, Clare Peake, Perdita Phillips, Gregory Pryor, Snapcat (Renae Coles & Anna Dunnill), Alina Tang, High Visibility, Shannon Williamson.

http://papermountain.org.au/program_items/paper-mountain-fundraising-auction-2014/

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A Short Lesson in Embroidery, artist book, edition of 40. Currently being exhibited at Paper Mountain in 'Stay/Keep', curated by Melissa McGrath (until Aug 24th).

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Forum 3: Connection and Intimacy on the Net

22 July 2014, 7.30pm – 9.30pm

Venue: The Common Room, Paper Mountain.

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1461794960724875