Photography course: Journal entry 2

Photography Week Two:

Second lesson of the course. Today we started off by recapping what we thought contrast is. Since we wanted to get ahead with the project we all took turns to state what our ‘contrast’ would be. Like the week before many contrasts came up like motion and static, or sharpen and blur.
Over the week I tried to imagine what my images would be like I were to choose any subject. In the mean time I have the idea of curvature and linear in my head. I’m going to be experimental and adapt some black and white photos aswell. This will give me a more in-depth photo of the contrast subject. I spoke to Catherine about what I was to actually take images of. I told her I wasn’t sure whether to shoot still life or real life as I believed the two to be both intriguing in their own way, so this Is going to be something to consider, but on the other hand, wouldn’t shooting still life and real life also be a contrast? So in a way this could be a 3in1 scenario.
After we finished the recapping session we moved onto the Macs, where we started to look at our blogs. Many people hadn’t already joined Blogspot in the first case, so it was really a matter of setting up them first. Seeing as I had already done this, I started writing a quick paragraph, summarizing my chosen contrast. I wont take time to go on about what I put, but I posted it up on Catherines blog to let everyone know what I was planning on doing, this may help undecided colleagues to choose their path.
Upon everyone completing this part, we moved on into the studio. Unlike myself, many of my colleagues hadn’t used a studio before so it was great to check it out. This wasn’t the most in-depth speech about it all but there probably wasn’t enough time to go on about each thing in detail. We watched Catherine take a few photos which included quick and long exposures aswell as different lighting.
Now we got chance to take our own photos using what ever light was available. We were told to experiment by turning off the lights down the long hallway (which leads to our room) and setting our cameras to B/W or some people, Monocrhome.
Throughout the 50minutes of doing this I took some very interesting images. At first it took some time to adjust my aperture, iso and shutter speed to correspond with the light but after that I was getting better. (I’ll post the photos I thought were best later)
I then moved into the photography room where we had a projector beaming light onto the white brick wall. We brought up an image of a prison size chart, for when they take mug shots in prison. I experimented with this idea for a few mintues and with the B/W effect, the images look good.