Inspiration - what's my idea and how does that affect what I shoot, how I shoot and what I do to the images?
Methodology - what are the problems I'm likely to encounter and how do I solve them?
Technique with camera - given my theme, idea, subject matter - how should I use the camera?
Technique with software - what my idea is dictates how I use the software to show that idea.
Presentation of images - If my theme/ idea/subject matter has an extended narrative consider a photobook. Episode 6: "Genius of photography", considers extended narratives.
It is possible to use phone camera if I work within its limitations eg send images around using Bluetooth.
Expects 10-20 finished images to get the idea across (or up to 50 if that's what it takes). Project final images in Preview in final studio and hand in a CD.
Where to get inspiration?
For Stuart, it's the landscape. Stuart was initially inspired by Dombrovski (used by Labor in 1980s electoral campaigning) who worked in the Tasmanian wilderness - but in a practical sense could see that he had not the fitness, money or time to get such glorious remote shots. He, then encountered Robert Adams - a highly conceptual artist who wrote on not constructing idealised landscape with supernatural forces, but as it is, "I just like to make pictures in my own space" and he worked in homage to Adams' ideas. In his practice, works in the moment, always carrying a camera and watched the light striking objects. Interested in the 'reality' of photography - it carries the burden of being ultimately real even though it uses only sight, not the other senses, and what is put in the lens can be totally selected (or manipulated in Photoshop afterwards). For instance, the ACF has an annual competition calling for 'natural' photos of wilderness without any human influence - a complete fantasy.
Ultimately, this is unit is about photographing ideas and not objects.
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