Hey, you´ve got great pictures there. Some visual surprises that I like :-)
DagT http://www.thrane.name Den 31. des. 2010 kl. 06.04 skrev Paul Ewins: > This gallery is the result of my first semester of study at Photographic > Studies College (in Melbourne) - www.psc.edu.au > > I had been toying with the idea of actually studying photography for a few > years now, having found short courses, workshops and camera clubs to be a > waste of time (for me). The trouble is that most tertiary education here is > at least partly government funded and is thus skewed very heavily towards 17 > year old school leavers and towards vocational learning (i.e. will get you a > job, not learning for the sake of it.) The university options were one BA > (photography) course (at RMIT) or a BFA with a photography major (most of the > universities offered this). All of those were full time courses and places > were fairly keenly sought. With an over-supply of arts graduates and limited > government funding there seems little desire for any of the institutions to > offer any arts courses to mature age students part time. > > The next step down is the TAFE system (Technical and Further Education) and > these are diplomas, not degrees. I had three options there, two places > offered courses skewed towards producing assistants and studio managers and > the last was PSC which offers an Advanced Diploma of Photography. It offers a > rather expensive (by local standards) full time course that runs over three > years or a much cheaper part time course (2 nights per week or all day > Fridays) that takes four years. The full time course if basically for school > leavers who normally aren't anywhere near as motivated or organised as mature > age students. Our part time class did have a few teenagers but the bulk were > in the 25-35 range with a few of us in our 40s and 50s to balance out the > teens. There weren't any complete beginners but most had little technical > knowledge. > > The course is entirely digital which does allow for much more rapid > assessment and feedback and plunges us straight into all of the colour > concepts. The downside as one tutor put it is that where in the past they > would see all of our work for the week in the form of a couple of B&W proof > sheets, now they just see the 5 or 10 shots that we think is best from the > few hundred we may have shot that week. Our best work may be lurking in > amongst the rejects because we aren't sufficiently developed to recognise it. > Certainly there were many occasions in the review sessions when someone was > almost apologetic about a shot that they thought inferior but a lot of us > absolutely loved. By then end of the semester it was clear that everyone was > able to produce good work although some were more consistent than others. > > The first 8 - 10 weeks was taken up with technical concepts in the morning > and art theory in the afternoon. We were expected to shoot in our own time > and upload images each week for review. In practice nobody managed to have > something new every week and there were a few that had a lot to do in the > last couple of weeks. The second half of the semester concentrated on > shooting for our final folio. The constraints were no cropping (apart from > straightening horizons), no flash, no monochrome. We had to provide 15 - 20 > images in each of three sections: People, Places, Objects (animals were > generally regarded as people since we tend to treat them in a similar way). > In one of those sections we were expected to provide a series of 6 - 9 > conceptually linked images. Otherwise we were expected to show a variety of > subjects and methods which is why the folio is varied to the point of being > disjointed. For my concept I started with "waiting" which gradually got > refined to low light shots of lone people and objects. It took me so long to > work out what I was actually doing that the last few shots were done in the > week before submission but I enjoyed the challenge immensely. > > www.paulewins.com/PSC/semester_1/folio/index.html > > All shot on the K7, mostly with FA24 and 43 but also 15, 77, 100 macro and > 18-250. The FA 24 is annoyingly large compared to the limiteds but it was > great for the low light stuff. Despite the obvious shortcomings of a large > range zoom the 18-250 (and perhaps the 43) is the best option for a > lightweight kit for when I was just wandering around. > > Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
