Week 3 - Ways of Seeing (Reading)

This week reading was really interesting and in relation with the one from a week ago "How to read a photograph"

When you see fire, what do you think of?

"Seeing comes before the words. A child looks and recognise before it can speak."
 - None of us have think of this before. How important is the representation of things. The meaning of all the actions. And that everything has a meaning behind. The clothes, the eyes, the look, the curves on our face and the way we hold our hands.

This reading spoke about how pictures took the place of Paintings, and how art became more normal in our lives. It's funny thou, as it became normal to have The Starry Night hanging on your wall, while the original one costs a fortune.

Anyway, the idea is that Photography came as a revolution.

Another important thing that was highlighted in the reading is that the ways of seeing a picture are always different. We can't look at a picture from 1800 and think the same thing about it as someone from 1900. Our perspectives of things change over the years.

In my opinion, a photography is a piece from a big puzzle.

That's for today. Thank you for reading.

Week 3 practical workshop

Today we learned about Robert Frank, Martin Parr and August Sanders.
For our Practical workshop we went at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts. An amazing place. A cozy Cafe, a misty air outside and a lot of fish!
This is what I shot today.

Week 2 Photography Shooting

This time we talked about Composition and we view pictures taken by famous photographers.

When we went outside we had 3 tasks:
-Use different focal length
-Use the rule of 3rds
-Take photos from the view of a child

This are some of the photos I took:

Week 2 - How do we read a photography?

This week's reading was about the fact that we need to read a photography not only to look at it.

"Whenever we look at a photographic image we engage in a series of complex readings which relate as much to the expectations and assumptions that we bring to the image as to the photographic subject itself.
Indeed, rather than the notion of looking, which suggests a passive act of recognition, we need to insist that we read a photograph, not as an image but as a text.
That reading (any reading) involves a series of problematic, ambiguous, and often contradictory meanings and relationships between the reader and the image"

What I understood from this is that, if we look closer to a photography we realise that it has a much  deeper meaning that we tough at first sight.
Because we are photographers we are suppose to look closer and see the deep message in the the picture.

The other reading was about Composition.

I think the most important thing to keep in mind is
"One of the fundamental lessons in photography is to learn to photograph what you see, not what you think you see - it is too easy to make a photograph that coincides with your frame of mind at the time you pressed the shutter and not with what was actually in front of the camera lens."

I do this mistake a lot. And I think because of that I loose a lot of good shots.

Fresh Start

Like all the starts in your life, you have a lot of information to take it. For me it was a lot to take in as even if I did photography before I never used a D-SLR on Manual. It was really easy to take photos only using the auto stuff. From now on -> Manual Mode.
I learned about Aperture, ISO, Shooting Speed and so on. For me there are so much numbers.

This is what I tried to do: