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DPP: Part 4 ? Reality and Intervention: Exercise 23 ? Alteration
The final exercise in this part is to remove an element of an image. I took a photo of my garden with my cat: Cat in the garden I used the selection tool to take key areas, and then used free...
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The course material provides a case study where a photographer was shooting some promotional shots for a cycling charity. The primary model, a bike instructor, had recently broken an ankle and the...
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DPP: Part 4: Assignment 4 ? Real or fake?: Initial ideas
The objective of this assignment is to produce a photographic image to illustrate a book or magazine cover. The briefing highlights these covers are sales vehicles for their contents, and so are often...
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DPP: Part 4: Assignment 4 ? Real or fake?: The Image, Ethics and Self-reflection
Having chosen the theme for the assignment image the next step was to set up the studio and shoot it. I got hold of a couple of soft boxes and a background stand with green and white backdrop sheets....
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DPP: Part 5: Assignment 5 – Recycled?: Rochdale Canal Walks
For my final assignment in my current module – Digital Photographic Practice – I’m doing a study on the Rochdale Canal. It’s essentially a look at the “aftermath” of the canal – from its original...
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DPP: Part 5 – The final image: Exercise 24 – Sharpening for print
This exercise is all to do with the finishing of an image and compares screen reproduction to print reproduction, focussing on the effects of adjusting image sharpness. I produced four images – an...
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DPP: Part 5 – The final image: Creating a web gallery
While not strictly an exercise, the final section of the module talks about creating a web gallery and what’s involved. I expect this to be an evolving project for me – but I’ve made a start at...
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DPP: Part 5: Assignment 5 – “Recycled?”: Research – Processing, Composition,...
While I’ve shot around 300 images on a few walks along Rochdale Canal, and had already looked at some work from Chris Killip and articles on “aftermath” or “late photography” prior to my outings, I...
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DPP: Part 5: Assignment 5 – “Recycled?”: Processing Experiments
In my research post I talked about the work by Paul Graham in “American Night” which presented over-exposed slums with vibrant newly-built suburbs and my own idea of mixing black-and-white “modern” and...
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DPP: Part 5: Assignment 5 – “Recycled?”: Submission Write-up
So, here’s my assignment 5 – the final assignment – write-up for “Digital Photographic Practice”. Printing and posting will take place tomorrow, then it’s on to the final level 1 module – People and...
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Identity and Place: Getting Started
It’s been a while. That’s been the story of my studies so far. A redundancy, a new job and a loss of momentum lie between now and completing Digital Photography Practice back in 2014. Back to it now...
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Identity and Place: Exercise 1.1 – Historic Portrait
The first project of part one is looking at historic photographic portraiture and covers a potted history of the changes in what the portrait represented (from an “exclusive” trophy for the rich, to...
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Identity and Place: Exercise 1.2 – Background as context
In this exercise the task was initially to look at the portraits of August Sander and write down my thoughts on his work. I reviewed a number of his portraits and they all have a consistent style to...
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