Photographic Skills A Assignments

The Image, The Camera

By responding to a number of short photographic exercises and assignments, issued to you during workshop sessions, you will explore the fundamental elements of photography and how they can have an influence on the impact and meaning of an image.

Assignment One
Using the keywords below as a starting point, you are to produce a number images in response to each combination.

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6)

Calm, Reflective, Tranquil Motion, Stillness, Tension Focus, Separation, Cool Warmth, Harmony, Balance Urban, Hard, Grim Future, Power, Steel

Start by considering their meanings or connotations and when doing that consider their antonyms too. You should also work at planning and pre-visualising the images you are going to make and we will expect to see evidence of this in your sketchbook/reflective journal. For the final submission, you will be expected to submit a final edit of six images, one for each combination; youll then choose one of these are your final folio print. Remember, as well as interpreting the keywords, your images should demonstrate your understanding of exposure, use of depth of field and shutter, composition, colour temperature and lighting.

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Observation & Available Light As a comparative assignment to the studio brief you are to explore available light and the portrait; the lighting effects photographers have been creating in the studio since the beginning of photography have all been influenced by what is naturally available around us, through the way in which light reacts to the environment, built (eg Window Light) or natural (eg the Golden Hour).

Assignment Two
Using only available light produce a portrait (not a candid) that explores the qualities of location-specific lighting; the image you make should be underpinned by planning and previsualising and we will expect to see evidence of this in your sketchbook/reflective journal. You should decide upon a mood or atmosphere you wish to convey and clearly set-our your intentions before you start work on any final images. Youll share your ideas and work in progress during a group tutorial in week three (week th beginning 7 Oct); this can be done through examples of your own (new) work or that found through research*. Support this work with visual research and critical reflection of your work and others.

*As we will be work in a seminar room, without computers, youll need to bring prints/photocopies.

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Studio Assignment In response to the lighting workshops and unit briefing, you are to explore studio lighting and work towards producing a final photographic outcome. Experimentation, research and then planning must underpin the work you produce; the final work may be conceptual or commercial in context but through your rese arch and development you must be working towards an identified photographic genre. Your work may be object/still-life, portrait/people based.

Assignment Three The work for your studio assignment is take the form of a three stage process: First, you are to research historical and contemporary studio-based work, looking at the work of a range of photographers. Then you are to write a short statement of intent outlining the image you plan to produce. This must be supported by visual research/examples and you should have identified a specific genre of photography (e.g. Advertising, Fine Art, Editorial Portrait). Finally, you are to book yourself time in the studio to produce your final image.

During week four there will be groups tutorials at which you will share your ideas for your final piece; you must be able to illustrate your plans through your own test images or examples of other photographers work*.

*As we will be work in a seminar room, without computers, youll need to bring prints/photocopies.