In my blog post Mr Gray I told you all about hanging
up my darkroom hat for a bit as I wanted to focus, (excuse the pun) more on
other aspects of Photography. I applied for a more general photography course a
few months earlier. Putting myself though an interview and selection
process was nerve-racking but I was successful in getting a place. Friends
warned it wasn't going to be what I expected it to be, but I thought I'll give
it a go anyway. What's the worst that can happen. If I don't like
it I can walk away.
I'm still trying to get to grips with what's expected.
The workload is challenging. There's a list of things we need to do
and completion dates for final submissions. There have been a few moans
and groans about teachers not actually teaching us anything. I've
recently come to the realisation that this is because college is for adults and
adults have to figure things out for themselves. They call it
self-directed study. When you look back at school, the teacher is pretty
much holding your hand to get you through the learning process. It's
their job to teach you a particular subject. So if you are just out of
school, college can seem a harsh reality of the education system you are used
to. I'm not saying I completely agree with it, but this is how it is.
I'd say we're generally shown how to do something once
or twice, and then you practise. If like me you are a bit slow in picking
things up, then it's going to be a struggle. I was the same at school;
the only difference now is I'm not scared to ask questions.
I was used to planning shoots for Daisy but they were
usually all in my head. It's out of my comfort zone trying to plan
everything but I'll get there. I'm working on a few power point
presentations at the moment and have just finished my second photo shoot today.
It doesn't actually take much time to turn up and take the photos. The
hardest part is planning what you want to do and pulling all the elements
together.
I put the war cry out on Facebook a few weeks ago to
see if anyone fancied modelling for me. I needed someone older than Daisy
who would be happy to take some direction. I have to do five Portrait
shoots for this brief. I have to show all my planning in a workbook,
poses, lighting examples, styling choices. I have to include research on
photographs I have studied which brought me to my shoot idea. Out of
the shoot, I have to show my tutor around 20 different photographs and narrow
my choice down to 15 possible final images. Out of that 15, I choose 2 to
edit further and give my reasons for picking that 2 and disregarding the
remaining 13.
We got off to a shaky start as the location that was
originally planned fell through, due to a lack of in-house communication. You
always need to have a back up plan, so we got in the car went to location spot
B. I think I'm happier with what I got and straight away a photographer
friend said she wanted me to take photos of her in the same spot. We had
a really good time, model Sophie brought along her mum and little sister Sadie.
We almost needed to hold Sadie down as she was very excitable at the prospect
of modelling like her big sister. So, we all stepped aside and let Sadie
show us how its done.
The photo on the right is the only one here that has been edited. The rest of the photos are what photographers refer to as SOOC, which stands for straight out of camera.
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