For this class we were manipulating physical prints of images. I was like being back at school. The ones below have been scratched with scissors, left overnight in turmeric, smeared with bleach, and framed with a secondary print of the same photo.

This assignment was to create some stock photographs with the theme of Middle Class Lifestyle. It gave me a chance to use my new Sigma 10-20mm wide-angle lens – the two outside ones of houses were taken with this. One of the traits of stock photography is to create an image with lots of space […]

The second assignment in my Learning to see in Photography class was to come up with a cover for a Gastropub Magazine to appeal to it’s target audience. We came up with the idea of a chalk background mimicking a specials board. With that in place it was an easy enough job to change the […]

First assignment in the Learning To See In Photography class at St Francis Xavier college was a Photographic Treasure Hunt. We were given a piece of A4 paper with various words or phrases, and tasked with taking a photo for each one. The scope was wide open – you could photograph anything as long as you […]