To you and yours. Christmas at Mitchell Mansion was fine, quiet and understated but very enjoyable nevertheless. This week I handed in my Unit Two Unit documents, although we have another week. This week we were meant to be showing off our Field Trip photos but as we didn't go on it, this didn't happen. Instead, we spoke about Flashguns, Polarizers and other accessories when completing portrait shots - but we will be doing more over the next week or so as well as concentrating on our portfolio choices and work. We spent some time using Studio Flash and light equipment and we had a task to replicate the 'Paramount' portrait shot. This was used by the film company often when taking portraits of its stars and is a fairly unique shot - often using two seperate light sources in a 'clamshell' configuration. My groups effort is below; original image by Gillian, post-production by myself. Mine is coming along quite nicely - I've narrowed it down to a few options but, to heighten the tension just a little; I'm not going to tell you what they are! We did mention two photographers that I've not come across - Saul Liter, a street photographer and Julie-ann Kost, who is great at Adobe hints and tips. So i'll be looking at those two over the next few days in order to see what I can learn from them. Next week the class are all going to London on a shoot. Sadly, I can't go as I won't be able to cope physically with the travel and the equipment etc. BUT all is not lost - Ed (my soon to be 23 year old Yeti) wants a Bridge Camera for his birthday so we have bought him a Panasonic Lumix FZ82 which has some great reviews. Ed has taken the day of his birthday off, so we are going out on the 8th on a sedate day shoot. I aim to visit three places which will give him an idea of three different types of photography: Chelmsford (street), Woodham Ferrers (landscape) and Maldon (water and wildlife). I'm hoping it will a good day for us both and I've built in plenty of breaks and as we are driving it can all be at the right pace for my limitations. Below is the portrait of Dave - who kindly volunteered to have his rugged visage photographed for our classroom task of taking a 'Paramount' portrait shot. I think it's turned out quite well... That's all for now folks, stay safe and keep snapping.
Alan
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Alan MitchellI'm always trying to capture that fleeting 'moment' in time -whether by taking a photo or writing a poem. My attempts to capture that illusive feeling, sight, sensation or sound in some way is, to me, magical. Archives
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