People and Place

After completing The Art of Photography module and nearing completion of Digital Photographic Practice I am embarking on my third module - People and Place - with the OCA.

I enjoyed the more creative aspects of TAOP to the more technical DPP.  I am looking forward to get my teeth stuck into some more creative shooting focusing on people - a subject I have not experimented with too much so far.

My course material has arrived and I am going to go through it all first before I set out on the first section, People Aware, which centres on the various types of portraits.

I think I will have a few challenges on this course.  Shooting strangers will be one of them.  I have already touched on this with street photography but I know it's something I need to work on more.

I also think I will find it difficult to get people I know to pose for me.  People are a little weird when it comes to having their pictures taken.  They are even weirder when it seems to be a friend or family member that is the shooter.  I think now might be the time to call in those favours due to me.

I will be keeping a blog for the course which like the other modules I have studies will include the exercises and assignment I have completed as part of my studies.  It will also include reviews and my reflections of galleries and exhibitions I have visited, books I have read and research I have carried out.

For this blog however I aim to include more of my own reflections on my work and details of shoots.