29.01.2010
OCA: People and place, Portrait, Reportage, Sport
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On a cold wet January night I spent several hours photographing cyclists at the Palmer Park velodrome in Reading.
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09.01.2010
Landscape
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Nothing to do with the OCA course. These photographs were take in woodland near my home in South Oxfordshire.
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07.01.2010
OCA: People and place, Reportage, Street photography
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With temperatures down to -18˚C in the evening and yet another 12 inches of snow fall in parts of Oxfordshire, photography seemed to good an opportunity to pass up. A 10ft snowman in the centre of Henley on Thames was proving to be a real people magnet.
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22.12.2009
OCA: People and place, Reportage, Street photography
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The objective of this exercise was to find an outdoor situation where there would be many people and activities to photograph, where the people had not been asked in advance.
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13.12.2009
OCA: People and place, Portrait
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Objective : Taking one person as a subject. Create between between 5 and 7 portraits (portraits 1 -7) which differ in type and style.
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27.11.2009
OCA: People and place, Portrait
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The intention of this photo shoot, was to get a couple of photographs that I could use for OCA assignment 1.
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09.11.2009
Landscape
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Fabulous locations, interesting people and fantastic tutors – shame about the weather. I learned a great deal on the course, though that killer landscape still eludes me.
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01.11.2009
OCA: People and place, Portrait
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This was my first attempt at excercise 3. The objective was to take a a number of portraits of the same subject with various lighting effects.
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25.10.2009
OCA: People and place, Portrait
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Earlier in the week I visited various local locations to pick a suitable backdroup. Today I revisited the dissused barracks in Sonning common with a willing victim subject.
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18.10.2009
OCA: People and place
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The object of this exercise is to find 6 different settings or backgrounds to be used effectively and attractively for either a body or torso shot.
The locations I liked varied from woodland to a disused army barracks.
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