This week I've looked at a cardboard packaging that held glasses, which I noticed had great shadows making the box look maze or city-like. The shot I put up at Flickr was not a shot in focus as there was something about lack of focus that increased the mystery of the shapes and shadows and made it more abstract. The in focus shots just looked like a box and failed to capture what I thought I'd seen:
I've also looked at a still life of some over-ripe fruit, which follows on from my exercise last week to look at the colour and effect of light on decay. I may set up another shoot for this one as the light was fluoro at night and it took me a while to get the right white balance setting, but once I did the images seemed to lose a vibrancy. Again, the shot I liked the best was an "error". The lens on this Pentax is very heavy so that when I set the camera up with a tripod and aim it downwards, the zoom tends to slip, which gives this curious movement effect:
I've also been thinking about feedback for the composition of this unit again. One thing that's struck me amongst the huge amount of history / technique / practice / art-making / hardware / software etc that such a unit skates across in 12 studios is that the unit doesn't actually include very much actual photography, as in putting into practice the sort of things we're learning. hence, my little exercises.
It would seem to me that in combination with developing our Photostream in Flickr and contributing to the Group Photostream that each week a little shooting exercise could be set and the results posted here. This would develop student ability to interpret assignments metaphorically / creatively / broadly as well as get practice with equipment and software and all this would go towards developing skills to create the final portfolio. At the moment, there's no assignment incentive to contribute to Flickr or show development.
Great to see you experimenting
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