To say I was the photographer in my own engagement party would be a false statement. As one of the members of the party getting engaged, I was more in front of the camera than behind it. Having said that, at the very end of the night, I did pick up my camera to take […]
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*There really hasn’t been anything exciting in terms of photography happening with me at the moment. I haven’t really been out and about taking photos, mostly because Dean and I have been very busy with ‘life’. This Saturday is our engagement party, and between family events (not very interesting) and getting ready for the party, […]
View ArticleI have decided that the first Finding Your Reflection will be executed after Christmas. This Christmas period is quite hectic at the moment and getting time with my models will be difficult. I now have 4 people who have agreed to do it, and one of them is my partner. I will probably start with […]
View ArticleSo we went to Williamstown. Had lunch and went out to somewhere nice to take photos. There are good photos of Nanna, but in all honesty, the photo I likes the most may not have been what my partner had in mind, but it definitely is what I believe the best photo (getting an agreement […]
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So, as I’ve mentioned in a previous post, we went to a safari type zoo here in Melbourne; the Werribee Zoo. It was pleasant, but really nothing much else to do, either: Safari Tour of the herbivores; OR Seeing the predators (carnivores/omnivores) in their cages. Most of the cages were quite spacious, not sure about […]
View ArticleI have to learn how to do portraits. I generally take a lot of event photos, but I have only done one portrait session in my amateurishness. The photos didn’t turn out bad, but not fantastic photos either. The important thing is that the client (a work friend) was very happy and impressed with the […]
View ArticleLet’s start by saying that the Moon Watching exercise will take a while longer than expected to be executed. I will postpone the the exercise until I have at least one other person (and I know who to ask) to do this with. And that person will need to be, AT LEAST in a different […]
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So I have finished editing my photos for Parameters: Yellow. I have also edited some of my partner’s photos, who decided to come along to the exercise. We had a great time and we are currently comparing which set of our top 5 photos turned out better. Between the black and white and yellows, I […]
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You may have noticed how excited I am with these exercises by the fact that I have posted twice (more?) in two days about them. But here is goes. There is a “Find Your Reflection” assignment in the book. And I was going to use my partner to execute the exercise. But I thought to […]
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So I decided to look at the next exercise. It is an extended exercise that will go for 3 weekends, starting the day after tomorrow. The exercise proposes limiting myself and exploring what I can do within the bounds of those limits. I have chosen 3 parameters: 1 block in the CBD that goes from […]
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The books/journals arrived for me to start doing homework arrived today. I am excited to do them. As I read the first few pages of “The Photographer’s Playbook”, I realized that it is not all what I expected; I had in mind that there would be 307 assignments for me to do. It’s not really […]
View Article I have just purchased 2 books for photographic assignments. They are estimated to arrive on 08/11. Their titles are: The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas Use This Journal if You Want to Take Great Photographs I will do the proposed exercises from one book before starting on the second book. I will likely start […]
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