Monday 5 January 2015

Level 5 photography
Portraits

The Brief

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no lonnger a fact but an opinion.... All photographers are accurate. None of them is the truth. - Richard Avedon, in the American West: photographs, 1979-1984 by Richard Avedon


Second brief given for second year titled 'portraits' is to introduce students to traditional portraiture and modern genres, the brief shall engage to practical equipment like colour darkroom and be back to the dark room using deveer to print black and white and learn to use medium colour format in the studio using a colour 12 roll film into a Hasselblad. Students have to produce prints black and white darkroom made from 5x4 negatives that explore shallow, mid and long depth of 3 final images sized 9.5x12 final field portraits in stranger public place.

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