Category Archives: Projects

Project: Defining a style

Posted on June 11, 2014 by briancooney123

I had a real epiphany with regard to this yesterday.  A few years ago I was mentored by a photographer and one of the things he advised me to do was to chose a style.  I felt very resistant to … Continue reading →

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Project 14: The Portfolio and thoughts of Jem Southam

Posted on March 23, 2014 by briancooney123

I was thinking this week as I visited my location about our (us humans) perception of time.  Or perhaps its my perception of time.  The changes in the natural world seem to happen so slowly that we don’t notice them … Continue reading →

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Project: Using a Polariser

Posted on March 6, 2014 by briancooney123

This is the first image from assignment 3.  I used a polarising filter to stop the light refraction from the windows in the factory so that it was possible to see the signs.  So this combines the first and second … Continue reading →

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Project Wide Angle Lens

Posted on March 6, 2014 by briancooney123

  All of the above use a wide angle lens and the foreground to lead the eye into the image.  Some are positioned closer to the ground than others.  

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Project: Intimate Landscape

Posted on March 6, 2014 by briancooney123

    Asleigh falls in Co. Mayo.  After looking at the examples in the notes and at the work of Elliott porter one of the feature I see in this work is the scale or rather the lack of it. … Continue reading →

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A personal project on Narrative

Posted on March 6, 2014 by briancooney123

I have noticed a collection of images that have appeared in my work over time that all have a common theme.  They are black and white.   Here is the first one that I remember taking: and this one too, … Continue reading →

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Project 30: Telephoto lens technique.

Posted on August 22, 2013 by briancooney123

I found the act of undertaking this project quite cathartic and informative.  I admit that I started it, as I start most of the projects thinking I knew what to expect and I knew what I would see.  I started … Continue reading →

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Rephotographing an old photograph.

Posted on August 18, 2013 by briancooney123

Here is a copy of a John Hinde postcard of Greystones beach taken sometime in the 60’s or 70’s.  Here is pretty much the same view today.  The area has completely changed in the intervening time, to the point where it … Continue reading →

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Project: Re Photographing a well known scene.

Posted on August 13, 2013 by briancooney123

I found this image of the old pier or quay in Enniscrone.  I notice several things about it the first is that the quay is busy with fishing boats and thats not so usual these days.  There are a lot … Continue reading →

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Project 21: Positioning the Sun.

Posted on August 4, 2013 by briancooney123

The first series of images were done in the city using the reflection from a glass building.  

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