Posts under this category are related to a project. The project may be long running, i.e. take many years, or a once off project.
I will do a whole project on Portraits. I thought that I could start with my own. I care a lot about my self-image and I loved the photo I posted of me on the day of my engagement party. Now that I have the all (most) of the material required for a studio, I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
View ArticleLast weekend I did my first session of night photography. I had planned to take photos of Flinders Street Station and the Old Treasury Building. Unfortunately, the Old Treasure Building had bright orange cones in front of it, so I couldn’t take any photos of that. I have created a gallery called Melbourne By Night […]
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