Unit 1: Contrast
This was the first unit I looked at in AS Photography. It explored one of the aspects of photography that nearly everyone overlooks. Contrast. Contrast is in every single kind of photograph. When you capture a photo, you might capture a contrast in colour, focus, tone, texture. It is very easy to take a photograph and not realise that difference in colour, or the difference between the areas that are in or out of focus. In Contrast I aimed to make the contrast obvious for people to see. In contrast I undertook photography experiment like the legendary Pinhole photography to thinking about photography in a conceptual way to a trip to the Barbican centre.
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Unit 2: Creative Use Of Light
This was the AS Photography exam. I had a choice between a wide range of themes from Weather to Evidence to Sports Photography, which I had to consider because I had been on a Sports photography course. I decided to follow Creative Use Of Light rather than sports because I felt that Light was very open to wide range of ideas and techniques. Whereas sports photography was very closed and would get very repetitive. At certain times, I felt I had reached the end of the line as to using Light in photography, however new ideas seemed to pop into my head out of nowhere.
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Unit 3: Surrealism
Surrealism has probably been the toughest, but at the same time the most exciting photography project I have ever attempted. The reason why is because, we were given a word which isn't popular in photography nowadays. It isn't like Contrast or Abstraction, where we can look at an image and say it is Abstract or that this a Street photography image. Surrealism wasn't really about taking nice images. It was about taking images that had a certain meaning. In Surrealism I took part in a wide range of practices from Rorschachs to Drawing Corspes. At first I really wasn't looking forward to Surrealism, however once it started, my understanding of the Theory of Surrealist photography has dramatically increased and I just wished I had even more time to experiment with elements of chance. Another part of Unit 3 involved me making a photography board game.
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