Arthurs Pass

I took a trip to Arthurs Pass National Park last weekend to try and get some images for my diploma portfolio. I wanted to get some sunset images and planned to head for Lake Pearson. I hadn’t taken many images around the lake and hoped to get some sunset colours and reflections in the water. [...]

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Laurence Aberhart

A couple of weeks ago on my diploma course we were studying Laurence Aberhart, Aberhart is a New Zealand photographer still working today, he works in black and white and generally photographs static subjects – buildings, memorials etc. I quite enjoyed looking at his images and trying to emulate something of his still style and [...]

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Struggling

This week’s diploma work is proving hard, we are meant to producing an image inspired by the work of Ansell Adams or Andris Apse, knowing the time and effort that both these photographers put into their work makes the idea of producing something suitable in a week fairly unlikely! I did manage to get out [...]

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Diploma Started Again

Last week I started my Diploma in Digital Photography course again, this semester is auteur study. For the first week we had to study Eugene Atget.  Atget was one of the true early masters of photography, he lived from 1857 to 1927 and spent 30 years photographing Paris. His equipment and techniques were old fashioned when [...]

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Portfolio

Having restarted my diploma in digital photography with the new semester I decided I needed to put together a portfolio, something I will need to do for a later paper anyway and also because it looks like I will need to get some models for some of my images this year and a portfolio helps [...]

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