Robert Adams on PBS
Found a really interesting piece about Robert Adams on PBS that includes him talking about his own thoughts on photogrpahy as well as samples of his work. You can have a look here: Robert Adams on PBS My favorite part is this quote from Adams on photographing trees, “If you haven’t loved a tree enough [...]
Contemporary Landscape Documentary Photography -Influences and Practitioners
For the past couple of weeks I have been revisiting a lot of work I have looked at over the past few years and coming across some previously unknown to me photographers so I thought I would add a list on here of the initial photographers/movements which have been influencing my practice recently. In no [...]
Term 3 continuation…
OK, so I have been having a bit of a break from the blog after feeling a bit wiped out after the second term of the MA and went back to actually writing a physical journal for a bit just to have a little bit of a change, but never fear, it’s back to hopefully [...]
Contact Sheets -Landscape of Leisure
All Contacts sheets for the Landscape of Leisure project are located on this server here and arranged into folders by location and shoot date. Please ensure to browse via the in site controls and not with your browser buttons for full functionality.
Ethical Code
I intend with my images to represent a subject fairly whilst also representing my own viewpoint on a subject. Whilst this in some cases may lead me to portray something in a negative light I will still try to remain fair with my reresentation. My work is concerned more with the concept of our relationship [...]
Landscape of Leisure Research Questions
The Landscape of Leisure project relates to the following research questions: Photographic Culture: the burden of history, photography, geo politics and otherness Imagined Geographies: photography, tourism and regeneration Local V Visitor: fairly traded photography, truth and ethics
Overview of Risk Assessment -Landscape of Leisure
Because this project is done around Dalian it carries little risk apart fro the standard damage to film or theft of equipment. In either case replacement is the best option especially with film. Film be be kept separate and developed in alternating batches bit in the worst case scenario there is always the possibility of [...]
Budget -Landscape of Leisure
Here is a breakdown of the proposed budget for the Thames Town Project: Accommodation: 2 weeks rent -already in the accomodation =850 Yuan Film: 80 Rolls 120 Superia 1680 Yuan Food: 30 Yuan per day x 10 days= 300 Yuan Travel: Tram and bus -6 Yuan per day Developing film: 10 Yuan per roll Dev [...]
Encoding, uploading and imploding… 31st August 2008
So after a few hours sleep it was time ot get back to sorting out the multimedia. I reencoded the set not in FCP this time or Quicktime but using the Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder and the final result is close to being perfect in relation to what was on the timeline. Some of [...]
Putting it all together… 30th August 2008
So the time has finally arrived to put the multimedia togther. The, rather ambitious as it turns out, plan was to get it all finished tday and uploaded to my website leaving tomorrow to polish up anything that needed it. As with all great plans this was doomed to fail but not by much. After [...]
Editing the multimedia 27th August 2008
Neighbours were in hammering the walls again and I had a 8.30am meeting with Ulla so spent the day in Uni editing the order of images for the multimedia and working more on my website which had decided not to work today… Got the images down to a few less and really worked on getting [...]
Golden Pebble Beach 26th August 2008
Despite the fact that we should have finished shooting by now the weather looked right this morning with that light white cloud that keeps things looking interesting and yet holds back the shadows well. With this in mind I went on the mission I have been putting off and went exploring Golden Pebble Beach (Jinshitan) [...]
More editing and a bit of web design! 25th August 2008
Back to class today to work on edits for the final submission so spent the day focusing on the leisure work and further trying to essentially crowbar the work into a narrative timeline without completely destroying it. Not succeeded yet but will continue to experiment over the rest of the week. Because we have to [...]
Editing 24th August 2008
Picked up the film from yesterday and appily there is some useful work here. I find myself more and more drawn to the images that deal with the edges of the space and not the space itself when dealing with the leisure areas. Maybe it’s because I hate crowds, maybe it’s because i find the [...]
Dalian Laohutan Ocean Park -23rd August 2008
With the deadline looming I had to go to Tiger beach today to make sure the images would be back from the lab in time for editing next week. Weather was pretty rubbish with grey cloud but at least it was not raining. I could really have done with some 400iso film but it just [...]
Editing and filing zoo film-22nd August 2008
Weather was pretty rubbish today (raining) so finished retouching the scans of the zoo edit (more left than I had originally thought) and collected the film from yesterdays shoot at the zoo. Some images appear useful but will know more when I have been able to go through and edit them properly for sharpness. At [...]
Zoo- final visit 21st August 2008
Revisited the zoo today mainly to collect audio to match those images that would need it. Went in the morning so I would be able to spend time in all of the sections of the zoo. Also made quite a few images (about 8 ½ rolls) on various things that caught my eye in the [...]
And more retouching 20th August 2008
Worked my way through most of the remaining A edit images correcting colour, contrast and retouching any dust present. Not much more to say really, long, boring day in front of the mac!
Correcting images again… 19th August 2008
Spent today working about a third of the edited zoo images getting them reading as corrected master files. Had more of a think about how I will lay out the work and I am gaining more of a sense of how all the elements will come together issue wise. At the moment this will use [...]
Zoo Editing 17th August 2008
Still have the dreaded stomach bug but spent the day going through my images for both this and the Thames Town project to see where I am succeeding and where things need to be worked on. Also edited the zoo work down to about 50 images, of which probably 10-15 have any chance of making [...]
Scouting out locations and editing 16th August 2008
Went on a little mission today to check out some locations around Tiger Beach and also do a few housekeeping jobs like get batteries for the camera and pick up and number the film from yesterday. Turned out I was right not to lay out the 190 yuan to go into the Theme park today [...]
Zoo again -15th August 2008
Returned to the zoo again today determined for once to actually make it over to the other section. Made a few more shots of a dinosaur skeleton statue in a forest before heading straight to the cable car to make sure I had time in the Free raising area. After the decidedly scary cable car [...]
Labour Park 14th August 2008
After spending the morning running through the zoo images from a couple of days ago again and realising that I am drifting from the initial concept of the piece –that of out effect on the landscape and making it too much about animals, I thought a trip to Olympic park was in order to redress [...]
Housekeeping. Wednesday 13th August 2008
Didn’t really do too much today apart from catch up on dairy entries during the day and collected my films and scans from the shoot yesterday at the zoo. For anyone who hasn’t ever or hasn’t for a long time shot film you are missing out the huge amount of time it takes to organise [...]
