Tutor

Yesterday I spoke to my tutor to go through work relating to the course and expectations of what he expects  from me and what I want to get out of the course.

Submitting work is the same as for the previous modules I have studied with the OCA with the exception of adding contact sheets of my shoots to my assignment submissions.  I think this is a good idea and will help me to better edit my shoots.  I wouldn't say I am really bad at editing but to date no one has ever seen the images that fail to make my selects or in fact the selects that don't make it to the final set of images.

My tutor spoke about the importance of building strong editing skills and how essential research is.  I think maybe to date I have neglected the side of research in favour of learning new techniques etc.  I think I should add carrying out more research to my own personal objectives for this course.

Some websites that were mentioned during our conversation were www.flakphoto.com and Jorg Kohlberg's Conscientious http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/about/.  Both these websites introduce the work of new photographers.  This will help me find work I really like and influences.

Something which I already so is look at The Sunday Times magazines for portraits and I must continue to do that.

We spoke about using Drop-box to get my assignments to my tutor.  I must look into setting up an account for that soon.

I spoke about my desire to shoot the people and place that I grew up in in Ireland.  This could form part of the work on this course which could be part of an ongoing project moving forward.  I am going to Ireland in the next few days for a couple of weeks and I have to put a plan together for getting some shots together while I am there.

All in all I am feeling pretty positive about this course and I am looking forward to getting stuck in.

My first assignment is due on 31st September.