Here are the photographs we were tasked with:
Short depth of field
Long depth of field
Long depth of field with slow shutter speed
Slow Shutter Speed
Fast Shutter Speed
Fast Shutter Speed ish
In regards to the reading that was done. In the Chapter 4 of Photography by John Ingledew, he talked
about different styles of camera, techniques, processing and among other things. There were a lot
of different cameras that I did not know anything about. For example, the Coloursplash peaked my
interest especially. I liked that it "features a dial offering bright colour filters to your exposures".
I've even thought about buying myself one to experiment with.
On the second piece of reading, John Berger's Ways of seeing, I disagree strongly with a lot
of his view points.I think he is looking too deep and hard into an ulterior meaning behind
photographs rather than the simple which personally I think explains a lot more.
For example, he states that "When the camera reproduces a painting, it destroys the uniqueness of its image...This is vividly illustrated by what happens when a painting is shown on a television screen".
It does not, in short. A camera can not reproduce the atmosphere that surrounds
a painting. This demonstrated by the fact that so many people go to see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre.
The uniqueness of the image is that it is historic, one of a kind and painted by an infamous artist.
With a photograph, you don't get to see the physical aspects. The colours may be different,
the brush strokes more noticeable and so on.
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