"Most of all it captures life, the bits we miss and we do miss alot. You have an opportunity every time you click the shutter to capture something" - Steve Wilson
Some words that I thought very inspirational from my teacher for Digital Photography.
Week One was just in Introduction to the course, going through the Course Information, Assessments and so on. We looked at Artists that are inspirations and these were some of my notes:
David Hill:
- commercial stuff done in colour
- personal stuff done in black and white
- while his commercial stuff has a grunge and heavy look to it his personal work is quite pale and soft
-although some are not necessarily collections his work tells a story and it quite narrative like.
Jill Greenberg:
- have seen her stuff before, heavily photoshoped
- controversy about her crying children images, child cruelty ect - however only took a lolly away from them
-works in collections eg. children and monkeys
Chase Jarvis:
- heavily saturated, dark
- made it big and is well renowned
-commercial photographer
- alot of his work is very artistic rather than standard photography that is mainstream and expected by the public- breaks rules eg thirds and focus but he does it in a way that works and is visually interesting
Stills Gallery:
- Shows whats current in AUSTRALIAN photography
- mixed with film, digital and photoshop art
CCB - Centre Contemporary Photography:
- holds seminars and exhibitions
- based in Sydney
- photography gallery
- good for research
- student competitions
Worth 1000:
- Creative Competitions for people
- Effects - photoshop
- competitions to age people through photoshop
- set up by categories and themes
We were taken to the 770 Section of the library - the Photography section to look at books, Steve encouraged us too look at artist for half and hour each week.
* Not enough people look at other pictures and ask them selves what do I like about this picture - the more you do the better you will be*
