This is a private blog site to support the Photography AS/A2 classes I run in Bournemouth - I use it to share ideas, research, useful (I hope!) material, and point out good photography stuff on the web.
When I can I will add other relevant content - exam materials, handouts, etc. If you can think of something that should be here feel free to let me know. Some pages may end up being password protected….
If you think you should have access to the site, please get in touch.
Richard
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That’s All Folks….
Posted on July 26th, 2010 No commentsWell, almost, for another year. The moderators have been and gone, some marks got lowered, some got increased, and in some cases I don’t know. Results out I think the 18th August. If that’s a Thursday.
Will carry on posting matters photographic on here again quite soon, but in the meantime if you want to pursue Photoshop a little more you might be interested in a course I am starting this week with the Communication Workers Union in Poole on Wednesdays for 10 weeks. 3 different class times throughout the day, and I expect a range of levels within each class. If you’re interested (and you don’t have to be a member of CWU or work for Royal Mail), then give the organiser a ring to check out spaces – Barry Underdown on 07782367568. This has nothing to do with Adult Ed – price is slightly dependent on numbers attending, and last year worked out at £2.50 per hour.
cheers
Richard
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Louis
Posted on June 1st, 2010 No commentsHi Louis
I can’t work out which is your email so having to broadcast this. Have tried your mobile but get answerphone…
You need to be in here completing your exam hours like everyone else. The available dates are on that website. The exam is practical – you edit and print whatever images are your final and considered response to the exam theme.
You have to fit in 8 hours, or up to 8 hours if you can finish in less time.
You also need to finish and hand in your exam theme workbook by 9.00 am 12th june at very latest – i am marking on that day.
I really hope that makes sense. It’s not easy getting hold of me by mobile – suggest you pick one of those dates and come in so we can sort this out.
Richard
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Exam Dates
Posted on May 28th, 2010 No commentsQuick confirmation – the 2-5 session on Friday 4th June is OK. I would encourage as many people as possible to avoid the Friday evening session if you can, and I am extremely reluctant to accept any more students in on Saturday 12th June – there will not be enough room.
Those of you who didn’t start this week and have not been in touch – I suggest you let me know what your plans are. I have squeezed as much flexibility out of BAL as possible.
Richard
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Exams, Exams, Exams…
Posted on May 24th, 2010 No commentsI think we’re finally getting somewhere. I have just heard back from BAL – the following seems to work, with one small but important snippet still to be confirmed.
GCSE - all as planned, you start tonight, then have the 7th June and the 14th June to complete. The moderator comes in on the 19th June to confirm my marks, or to surprise us all.
Although not ideal, two AS/A2 students may join these GCSE sessions. Everything else is Ok, so you can ignore the rest of this message!
AS/A2 – we start this thursday 27th May, and have the following date/time slots available to c0mplete:
Saturday 29th May, 10- 4
Tuesday 1st June, 2-5 or 6-9 (we could probably work through 2-9 if needed, but would recommend a break)
Thursday 3rd June, 6-9 (I am still checking if there is a 2-5 slot somewhere, even if we have a different room. it complicates printing, but otherwise could be made to work)
Friday 4th June – 2-5 (to be confirmed), 6-9 (confirmed)
Saturday 5th June is NOT available – the centre is closed.
Thursday 10th June 2-5, 6-9
Saturday 12th June, 10-4 – although this really does need to be limited to the the three of you who have already told me you cannot make anything earlier. If we could complete before this it would make everything much easier.
I hope that makes some kind of sense. I would appreciate email confirmation form AS/A2 students so i know exactly who will be in when. If it’s easier, you should be able to find an online version of the bookings in a spreadsheet here – http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnRloLAgR65WdDdHc3diNFRrdk92eDhFQzdZVkdFdXc&hl=en_GB
copy and paste into a browser address bar if this does not come up as a link.
Thanks
Richard
and good luck!
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exam dates AS/A2 – PS
Posted on May 19th, 2010 No commentslooks like only tuesday and friday available that week
regards
richard
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exam dates & moderation – AS/A2 only
Posted on May 19th, 2010 No commentsSmall glitch after last week on dates front – my apologies. The moderator is now due on 14th June – so work will have to be marked by end of Saturday 12th June. I still had the initial planned date of 28th June in diary, but it seems that was cancelled. Entirely my fault – mind on other things.
The only solution I can see is to insert sessions during the half term week – the art room is already booked, so we will have to choose another day/s.
Please let me know asap if there are any days during that week – other than Monday 31/5 – which you cannot make if needed. I will check what rooms are available Thursday morning.
It would be useful to know if anyone had planned to come in on 12th June – that might still be possible if numbers are low. I do also still need to hear from most of you which sessions you had planned to attend, so I can manage numbers.
Thanks
Richard
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AUCB Foundation Degree
Posted on March 30th, 2010 No commentsJust a quick reminder – Paul Allen is coming to BLC this Thursday, about 5.30, to meet anyone who wants to know more about the part time foundation degree course he runs at AUCB.
Bring portfolios or whatever workbooks you have, and questions.
It would help to email me if you are interested – take up so far is low, and I might be able to make the timing more convenient if I know for certain no-one in evening session needs to see him.
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Some more opportunities…
Posted on February 25th, 2010 No comments<<Because of your involvement with Fools Experiments at Bournemouth Natural Science Society they have has asked me to email you some information regarding an open day next Saturday 27th Feb @10.30 - 4pm.This email is also going out to any of my contacts who I think might be interested in visiting BNSS.BNSS are launching the publication of a book they have just produced, The Natural History of Bournemouth, which will be on sale, but also to let you know BNSS will be open to the public for the day and you and your family and friends will be able to view their fascinating collection.Please spread the word that this is a great opportunity to see inside BNSS.>>Related posts
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Possible exhibition opportunity
Posted on February 24th, 2010 No commentsStop the Bus is a collaborative arts event run by a small arts organisation called NACC, who aim to support economic development of independent artistic businesses. This event will take place on Saturday 24th April 2010 in Bournemouth Town’s Triangle. The event will celebrate independent artists and provide an innovative showcase space as well as a platform for artists to sell their work. There will be a double decker bus which will be used for gallery space as well as a large marquee for stalls. There is also an opportunity for artists involved to hold small workshops for the public to experience their particular art form. We aim to involve the Bournemouth community with this event by giving them the opportunity to experience high quality art along with the chance to try their hand at different art forms. We shall be holding this event in line with Bournemouth’s Bicentenary Celebrations and the additional publicity and profile this entails. Stalls are very reasonably priced and offer a great platform for artists to sell and exhibit their work. Places are limited please contact Natalie at the earliest opportunity on: Natalie.gayle@hotmail.co.uk
and
Transformation – Bournemouth Open Art Exhibition
Bournemouth Library 9 June to 10 July
Closing datefor entries Friday 23 April 2010
Calling all artists in the BH postcode. As part of Dorset Art Weeks and
Bournemouth’s Bicentenary.
To reflect the changes which the town has undergone throughout the last 200 years
and anticipate what the next 200 years might bring, entries should encompass the
theme of Transformation in its broadest sense.
Transformation is ….
? Open to people living in or near Bournemouth with a BH postcode
including students and staff at all educational institutions.
? Open to all ages
? Open to anyone regardless of training, skill or art form
? Max of 3 entries per person.
? Work can be of any shape, size, medium or finish.
Closing date for entries: 23 April – images on cd or hard copy to be sent to:
Open Art Competition, Bournemouth Arts Development, Bournemouth Library,
22 The Triangle, Bournemouth BH2 5RQ together with cheque for £5 per entry.
To download entry form and further information:http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Residents/Arts/Whats_On/default.asp
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Possible Photography Job {very small}
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 No commentsHi All
Have been approached at short notice by Lisa Male who is a Youth Worker with Bournemouth BC – have run a few projects with her recently. Lisa is looking for a photographer to cover a couple of events this Friday/Saturday – she wondered if any of you might be intrested. Her email text follows:
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Got an event Friday night (7pm ish)and another Saturday (12pm ish) morning and I really need a photographer to take portraits of children receiving awards from the mayor at AFC Bournemouth. It will be 1 hour Friday and 1 hour Saturday. Do you have any students who might want the experience? I have a very restricted budget……. but could pay a small amount.
I only need someone to take the photos and then put them on a disc for me – no alterations or printing or anything.
Any ideas???>>
Interested? I guess it could be different people on different days. Really good experience if you see yourself getting more into this sort of photography [Dave? Gilly?] [and others - you know who you are...]. You would probably benefit from having an external flash, but you might get away with built in one. i would suggest having some sort of reflectors to bounce more light around too.
If you are interested, email Lisa fairly smartly at Lisa.Male@bournemouth.gov.uk or ring her on landline -
Lisa Male
LAC Participation Worker
Participation TeamTelephone: 01202 456391
any problems, try getting hold of me – i think i have a mobile for her, but won’t give that out for now.
thanks
Richard
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Coming up… GCSE and AS/A2
Posted on February 21st, 2010 No comments
Nicholas Nixon's Brown Sisters - Woodstock, NY 1990
Nicholas Nixon has photographed his wife and her three sisters every year since 1975 – is that passion/obsession or rhythms/cycles?
http://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/08/nicholas-nixon-and-the-brown-sisters.html
Anyway – this week, please bring in workbooks for course work in whatever [hopefully quite close to finished] state they are in. We also need to decide which images you finally present as the finished prints for the coursework. It would be great to bring in all or some of your choices on memory stick so we can help you decide.
A lot of this will have to be 1:1, so suggest you bring in work to finish – either on photoshop, or research to do, stuff to write up, etc….
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Photo Competitions
Posted on January 29th, 2010 No commentsAlways worth a try…
This one is promising – part of a stock photo library, and you don’t seem to totally lose copyright if you enter – but do check the details?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/istock-britain-is/istock-photography-competition
And an article on Infra-red photography at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/photoblog/2010/01/on_a_different_wavelength_100_years_of_infrared_ph.html
Bob Dylan 1968 - Elliott Landy/Magnum Photos
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Important – GCE/GCSE registration
Posted on January 27th, 2010 2 commentsHi
Two things – I need you to email me urgently if you have taken a GCE or GCSE in the last 7 years. If so, you will have a UCI number – which we need – my fault, but needs to be done by end of week – sorry. The UCI number is 12 numbers followed by a single letter – so something like 123456789123A. It will be on a results slip, a certificate, etc.
NB – I do have the numbers for some of those who have been with us before, so this is really for Jan (Birch), Jeff, Kristi, Janice (Jordan), Bob, Laura, Yvonne, Liz, Jane, Cleo, Heather, Cheryl, Helen, Marilyn and Sam.
I do need an email if the answer is ‘none’ please. Sorry again for last minute nature of this, but is quite urgent. emails to richard@richardjeffery.com will be best.
And AS/A2 – remember, for thursday – images from the still life shoot for a quick group critique, and your portfolios, in whatever state they are….
thanks
Richard
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Long Time No Post
Posted on January 23rd, 2010 No commentsRight – apologies for last week and classes cancelled, various…
for this coming week we need to review your still life results, so please bring in a handful of most successful images to show, and also I really need to see your workbooks/portfolios in whatever state they are in. A couple of you have already shown me bits – that’s great – but need to give more formal feedback, so you know what else you might need to do to get those extra marks. Fortunately, I’ve had GCSE and AS/A2 doing same thing {because it’s easier than putting lights in and out of the car…}, so this will apply to everyone. I want you all to end up with a good idea of what your portfolio could look like. Remember, they don’t all have to look the same, and i would rather you found your own style, which is why there isn’t a paint by numbers version, sorry.
Some more bits:
Peter Cooper, a ranting poet friend of mine has a gig in the Winchester on Sunday night – he has a new website and is looking for photos. I don’t suppose you’ll get in for free, but if you do go, say you’re a student with me and do some pics – you’ll get a credit at least. probably. I was going to go, but should probably do my tax instead.
“Don’t forget Field of Fantasy 8.00 Sunday a the Winchester. There’s nothing else on a Sunday night in Bournemouth. This will make you smile, make you sniffle a bit and perhaps even get you thinking. And the Winchester is a nice place to be. Come and see how entertaining poetry can be. (with music by the excellent Matt Wilkinson). Tickets at the door from 7.00 so you can have a drink beforehand. Peter”
And no zombie gags.
There is an excellent [it says here] photo exhibition at Lighthouse in Poole,
Africa Awakes
Sat 6 Jan – Sat 27 Feb 2010
Raw and compelling, Africa Awakes brings together the power and sheer scale of Africa as well as the energy and fire of the ancient and the new. It highlights the challenges and contradictions facing Africa today through the eyes of the people and their customs.I missed the preview, but will try to get there one evening. The bod’s website looks good. Remember that showing you have been to look at ‘real’ photography – that is, first hand, as the photographer wanted to show it, not just reported in a book or a website, helps gather extra marks. If you didn’t it would be a bit like saying you are passionate about music but never go to a live gig.
You are passionate about photography, aren’t you?
For the more adventurous, some competitions. Oh yes you can.
http://www.thegalaawards.com/prizes_and_awards.html
and http://www.thegalaawards.com/categories.html
and http://www.thegalaawards.com/entry_fees.html
My second studio flash has been repaired [ouch] so we can plan another portrait session after half term – that way you might be able to take advantage of it for the exam theme….
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Photography’s first footsteps: Points of View at the British Library
Posted on January 13th, 2010 No commentsMight be worth a trip… http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2010/jan/12/photography-british-library-points-of-view
Brian Duffy's photograph of Reggie Kray with his Grandfather, 1964.
And in case you missed it, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pwsns/The_Man_Who_Shot_the_60s/ is a powerful review of Brian Duffy’s work – up there with Donovan and Bailey. As it says – strong language. You have been warned….
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Interesting Times…
Posted on January 7th, 2010 No commentsThanks to the the 3 (+1) who turned up for GCSE on Monday – I’m going to assume the rest of you thought better of the weather, rather than just forgetting…?
I had wanted to set out some plans for the rest of the course – you’re about half way through, and we need to see some evidence of progress. I will do what I can to reschedule, but for now I would like you to prepare some sort of simple still life for next week If you haven’t already, go look at the work of Edward Weston and Josef Sudek, and find something to photograph that will have some definite shape in black and white. Maximum of 3 items, but 1 good one would be easier (if you can relate to Edge that would be good too); 1 light source, and think about the type of shadows the shape will provide – and how you want to render them – hard or soft? I would like you to come in knowing what you want the image to look like. Plan to have an assistant too.
I will postpone the second portrait session – but would like you to agree a sitter/model from the class to work with – this time with more deliberation. I will want you to agree a style for the portrait that relates to edge. Think props, makeup, clothing – whatever. We will have a go at that in a couple of weeks.
Thursday classes – if you are sat there wondering if the AS/A2 courses are running today – well, so am I. I’m assuming all is ok, and just about to set off from Swanage – I’m sure someone will ring if not…
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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
Posted on December 6th, 2009 1 comment
One of Dorothea Lange's images of Florence Owens Thompson, California, 1936. Photograph: Dorothea Lange/Corbis
Sean O’Hagan applauds a meticulous biography of Dorothea Lange who will forever be defined by her images of the Great Depression… Useful background stuff in this review by Observer of new biography…
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Photography quotes you should know
Posted on December 5th, 2009 No commentsI subscribe to a rather amusing photography blog called the Digital Photography School. Posted today was a list of famous quotes from photographers which I thought were rather good forming perhaps a musing on what photography is.
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” – Peter Lindberg
“The important thing is not the camera but the eye.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” – Ansel Adams
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.” – Anonymous
“If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” – Robert Cappa
“A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.” -Arnold Newman
“Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).” -Henri Cartier-Bresson
“The word ‘art’ is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one’s work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.” -Manuel Alvarez Bravo
“People say photographs don’t lie, mine do.” -David LaChapelle
“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.” – Ansel Adams
“You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus” – Mark Twain
Ian F
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Doing Street Photography
Posted on December 5th, 2009 No commentsRoss has forwarded these links about street photography…
And now the police… Two good articles on the legal position if street photography, and a copy of an email from ACPP that you night usefully print out and carry with you, in triplicate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2009/dec/05/photography-section-44
The quote you need to read from the Independent article:
Chief Constable Andy Trotter, chairman of Acpo’s media advisory group, took the decision to send the warning after growing criticism of the police’s treatment of photographers.
Writing in today’s Independent, he says: “Everyone… has a right to take photographs and film in public places. Taking photographs… is not normally cause for suspicion and there are no powers prohibiting the taking of photographs, film or digital images in a public place.”
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Various bits and pieces…
Posted on December 5th, 2009 No commentsA few reminders – or if you didn’t know, then you need to read this…
AS/A2 catch-up morning - this in lieu of a day we missed back in October or somewhere. BAL have set up an additional morning class 10 – 1 on Saturday 12th December – usual place. I’m going to keep this fairly open, but it would be a good time to get some feedback from me on progress, have access to my library, do some research, practice some Photoshop. It would be useful to let me know if you intend to come – I’m sorry that this date won’t suit everyone.
Absences: BAL have a policy now of ringing up everyone who doesn’t show up, and where i don’t have a reason. So – if you know you won’t be able to make the class, either email me please or telephone BAL – or let me know the following day if the absence was unexpected. BAL have contractual targets for course retention rates, so if anyone doesn’t show they start firing up their support procedures – it’s also to see if there is a problem we can help with.
And for those kit lovers out there, Helen has forwarded a YouTube special - bizarrely, Downfall was on last night. Great, if harrowing, film…
Just a reminder – term ends w/c 14 th December 2009, and we start again (yippee!) already w/c 4th January 2010.
I would like to see some work in progress from you during the last week of term – GCSE, AS and A2 – so plan for a group critique. Images on memory stick, or available through Flickr will do fine….
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