Short Assignments

I am going to be set short assignments throughout the year to co-inside with my main projects, this is to improve different areas of my photography. I think this is a good little exercise to do i just hope i have time to do all my work alongside these mini assignments.

Anyway i was given my first mini assignment on Thursday which is due in on Wednesday. I had the choice between 'Hull Fashion', 'Cycle City', '5 Seconds' and 'Close Up'. At first i thought i was going to choose the '5 seconds' assignment or the 'Hull Fashion' one due to my interest in both fashion and portraits however i decided to leave them until i start my Main Fashion/Portrait brief. As it will keep me focused on that main project as its based on the same thing.

Therefore i decided to choose 'Close Up'

CLOSE UP

It was a beautiful day today so i decided to take advantage of the bright light and do my first mini assignment 'Close Up'. The relevance of the weather is due to the way i took the photographs, i setup a table with my prop on next to a window that had bright light shining through and i placed my large white reflector in the window to create a nice diffused lighting for my prop.  

I wanted to use something i love and often use as my prop to show the main components of it so i decided to use my beloved Mamiya Rb67 medium format camera.

 1/125 second exposure

F/16

Iso 100

I used a 70-300 mm macro lens.

 

I am pretty happy with these images, i consider product photography and macro my weakest genre of photography so i found this assignment quite challenging but overall i think these images cover the assignment 'close up'.

Short Assignment - Building Bricks

For my Short Assignment i chose 'Building Bricks' because this assignment sounded interesting. For it i decided to go to one of my favorite places to explore and take photographs, the abandoned Driffield RAF base, a hub for urban decay.

I am pleased with my images overall and are going to explore urban decay more in my seeing the world brief.

Keep it simple

This assignment 'keep it simple',was one which i had to look at the work of  Michael Kenna and take 5 photographs in a similar style.

I decided to take my images on the west wood in Beverley and to isolate my subjects as Kenna often does.


Final Images

I enjoyed this assignment actually, i like this photographers work and in future landscape shoots i shall use techniques he uses such as slow shutter speeds, i will have to invest in some ND filers.





Short Assignment


Bikes

I wanted to do bikes as my next assignment as it gave me freedom and allowed me to approach this subject in a varied and creative way. These are my 5 images:

Black

Black Characterised by absence of light; enveloped in darkness. 

For this mini assignment we were given another small selection of words to choose from. I decided to attempt 'Black' and 'Recession' and the images i have submitted are 'Black'.

Overall im happy with the two images i have chosen.

Next Shoot i shall choose will be Recession.