Throughout this section of my course I was given examples and to research various topics and to research various topics that included how to resize photographs. some of the topics that was covered included was self portrait (written as a blog Keith J Driscoll's Student days in Photography: Self Portrait (kjdstudent.blogspot.com)), Studio staged, (written as a blog Keith J Driscoll's Student days in Photography: Studio Staged. (kjdstudent.blogspot.com)), Portrait of a Stranger (Written as a blog Keith J Driscoll's Student days in Photography: Portrait of a stranger. (kjdstudent.blogspot.com)), Flaneur (Written as blog Keith J Driscoll's Student days in Photography: Flaneur (kjdstudent.blogspot.com)), Street view/ stock (written as a blog Keith J Driscoll's Student days in Photography: Street view /stock (kjdstudent.blogspot.com)) and still life, self portrait (written as a blog Keith J Driscoll's Student days in Photography: Still Life, Self Portrait. (kjdstudent.blogspot.com)). We also had to give a presentation of 5 minutes to a given topic based upon 4 themes with a topic of our own choosing that was not our own work.
Looking retrospective at this half term I found that I was nervous at the presentation. I am going through a rough patch at this half term and things did not help as I had a decorator working upstairs at the time of giving this presentation and had to keep one ear out for him. This caused me to rush though the presentation faster than I normally would have done as I could not concentrate on the task at hand as I would have liked. The next time I do a presentation I would hopefully not be going through such a bad time and would be able to give my attention fully to the task. I think the moral of this story is that you can not give 100% to tasks when there is too much other things going on in your life.
The Photographic tasks were a different matter entirely. This was given to us as something we can complete during the week. This gave me time to readjust my thoughts to a timetable that I could adjust to time when there was not a lot going on and to change the date on what I was going to do if I did not felt too down to do anything at all. I could also do research at other times when I felt up to the task.
I have learnt that there are various ways that you can interpret a photograph and seeing the concept of photography in different ways. This was including using other people's photograph in a new frame, to stage a photograph so it will give a context and to understand that everyday things I personally take for granted may be interesting to other people. I have used some of these ideas directly into my practice and hopefully will continue to use in the future. Overall, I thought I did as best I could do under the circumstances and hopefully have not so much damaging events happening around me when I proceed to the next term of work.
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