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Reflections on Tutor feedback Assignment 4

  The sheer amount of tutor feedback is great, however it does require a detailed response from me starting here: In the report my tutor states that he feels my essay, while good lacks my own point of view clearly … Continue reading

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Portfolio: The final selection

This series of photographs is the result of the very confused brief in this photography course.  The essence of that brief is that the portfolio should be based on the seasons.  As I have written about earlier the brief was … Continue reading

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Here is my second set of possible images for the portfolio.  This time I have deliberately scrambled the seasons around.  Spring is no longer the fist set, here we start with summer time and finish with spring which also brings … Continue reading

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Reflecting on the portfolio version 1

I have already written about the reaction to the first possible version of the portfolio selection and I just wanted to write about how and why I selected the selected the images in the slideshow.  My reasons for selecting this … Continue reading

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Reflections, feedback and revisions on assignment 3.

My tutor report for this assignment was a good piece of feedback for which I am grateful.  However my tutor starts his report by stating “You submitted 11 images when only eight were called for. The main thrust of your approach … Continue reading

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Further reflections on feedback and assignment 2

In preparation for assessment I am revisiting the assignment sand the tutor feedback.  I completed and submitted this assignment 18 months ago now and its interesting to look back at it and the feedback from my tutor.  I can see … Continue reading

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Reactions to portfolio version 1

I have received the following reactions from people on my blogs, Flickr on email and on social media. “Isolation, Self imposed. Sad.” “Hi brian – I see alot of images are shot through windows – and an impression of holiday … Continue reading

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The Portfolio continued

I have decided that I will be going my own way with this final set of images for the portfolio.  Yesterday I went back over the catalogue of images that I have taken for this course over the last 2 … Continue reading

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Seasonal Project: The portfolio.

It appears I have made a boo boo on the portfolio for landscape. The actual brief IMHO, and I am not offering this as an excuse, is ambiguous or perhaps confusing. Anyway it doesn’t matter now. At the beginning of … Continue reading

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Defining a style: Walker Evans.

Before I consider too deeply on the style of Walker Evans I must first of all say that I am judging this from the book American Photographs.  I do not really believe that a photographer has one style.  Perhaps this … Continue reading

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