Born in London, Nick Brandt has become one of the most successful and renowned contemporary photographers , who’s career and passion for photography came to the surface in 1995 when, he visited Africa for the first time to direct and film the Michael Jackson, ‘Earth Song’ music video. It was this iconic video in whichContinue reading “Photographer: Nick Brandt”
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The Deep (Revisited)
As you may know by now, the theme for my portfolio and media project is wildlife and recently visited The Deep, an aquarium within the city centre of Hull that provides views of the Humber Estuary and is home to over 5000 animals including seahorses, sea turtles, penguins and jellyfish. I felt like capturing aContinue reading “The Deep (Revisited)”
Feren’s Art Gallery
As part of my media project, I want to ensure a variety of primary and secondary sources have been used as both part of and to develop my research into the types of genres and photographers I may decide to show influence from in my final outcome demonstrated in my digital portfolio, hence why IContinue reading “Feren’s Art Gallery”
The Deep
For my media project I’m hoping to focus on wildlife and in particular zoos and wildlife parks throughout Yorkshire, and therefore in order to decide whether to remain with this initial idea, on February 14th, I returned to my hometown of Hull and visited one of our most famous tourist attractions…The Deep as a wayContinue reading “The Deep”
Metering Modes
As a group we felt like we didn’t understand the difference between metering modes and therefore the first hour of the workshop was tailored around exploring these differences. With everyone’s camera being different our modes were either renamed or had extra. For example, as a Pentax K-50 owner, my metering modes are the following: CentreContinue reading “Metering Modes”
Defining Identity
Today’s lecture and seminar was tailored around defining identity and whether creative industries still face certain barriers, which I know from a photographer’s point of view can confirm that in the creative industries barriers still cause significant diversity. For the extended task we have been asked to choose 3 identification representations and answer two questionsContinue reading “Defining Identity”
Audience Theories
This week, both the lecture and seminar covered the topic of ‘audiences’ and in particular the different theories such as the hypodermic needle and Stuart Hall’s reception theory, both in which I’ve covered previously. Applying both theories to a media text more convenient to myself, aka music, I strongly feel like Hall’s reception theory isContinue reading “Audience Theories”
Composition
Today’s 3 hour workshop consisted of a brief tutorial / lecture into composition and its relevance to photography, before heading out into the city centre to produce a series of images in which showcase our understanding of rule of thirds, depth of field, golden ratio and leading lines. Shot in monochrome as it’s professionally known,Continue reading “Composition”
Portrait Shoot
Sorry I’m a day late posting this as I didn’t get back to Sheffield until after 9pm, however yesterday (04/02/2020) I travelled to Blackburn to both visit a friend as well as compose a portraiture shoot in order to gain more confidence when producing or capturing portraits as I tend to struggle getting the correctContinue reading “Portrait Shoot”
Media, histories and futures
This weeks lecture and seminar was more like a refresher session for myself as what our lecturer delivered, was a contextual area in which I studied as my previous University before making the transition from film studies to photography, in which focused on traditional and emerging forms of media, therefore giving me a better andContinue reading “Media, histories and futures”
