EX115 Your artistic voice
Do you have an artistic voice? Of course you do, we all do. Have you stopped to think about it? Well this week Len asks us too.
EX114 Letting go of perfection
Do you get caught up on the perfect photograph? Does it get in the way of your creativity or perhaps it drives it. This exercise asks you to consider photographs you may have dismissed previously because they weren’t perfect enough for you.
EX113 Abstracting Colour - Intentional Colour Shifts and False Colours
In this weekly exercise we are intentionally abstracting our colours to see what we can achieve. False colour is one way, colour temperature another. Using software is yet another way to explore modifying the colours for intentional effects.
EX112 False Colour
This week we are going to experiment with false colours. To do this we shoot through some coloured glass or cellophane and adjust our white balance.
EX111 Fishing
Fishing for photographs is a street photographers favorite. You pick a spot and you work it. You may pick a spot based on the light, or the background, or for the potential of what may be there.
EX110 Limiting beliefs
In this weeks exercise Len asks us to consider our ‘Limiting Beliefs’ that we may use to limit ourselves with our photographic art. Do you have limiting beliefs that stifle you?
EX109 Following your intuition
Following on from this weeks talk about being more intuitive with your photography, Len asks us to explore a subjec that is close to us emotionally and that you have a deep knowledge about, and photograph it quickly.
EX108 Soft Light Hard Light - Going further
For the next two weeks I want you to explore just one of the light sources we discussed and produce a series of five photographs that work together. Understanding how light works is crucial to our progression as a photographer.
EX107 Soft Light Hard Light
Can you see and identify the differences between soft and hard light? This weeks exercise asks you to explore the differences.
EX106 Creative Constraints
Constraints are so important to me as a visual artist. I love the idea that if I have a box that I can bounce around in, it is so much easier than having limitless possibilities. This weeks exercise is about setting yourself some constraints.
EX105 Celebrating our influences
In this weeks exercise we take last weeks exercise and extend it. This time we withhold the artist we are inspired by and keep everyone guessing. Really explore your one artist, and identify what it is about their work that inspires you. Narrow this down and use it to create your own work.
EX104 Influential Artists
Do you have an artist that has inspired your photography? I have many. In this weeks exercise Len asks us to share the lesser known ones who have inspired you, and to show a photograph that shows this inspiration. If you don’t have an artist yet, well, it is time to find some.
EX103 Multiple Exposures
In this weeks exercise which is broken into two parts and goes for two weeks. We explore multiple exposures.
EX102 Seeing Differently
In this weeks exercise we are going to linger on a subject and see if we can learn to see it a bit differently. We are going to give it our extended attention and see if we can notice more about it. We will explore that one subject and see if we can go further with our photographs of it.
EX 101 What does photography teach you?
What does photography teach you about you? A fascinating question that Len asks you to ponder and answer.
EX100 Five Diptych's if you dare
With Xmas and the new year looming, and a break for our classes during the holiday period, this exercise is really the one for January. Over this month we challenge you to work on diptychs. We are offering some great encouragement rewards for those willing to post their work on the forum. This includes publication in our new magazine, a scarf or two and having Len print your work for you to hang at home or give away.
EX99 Moving the point of focus
How in control of your focus are you? Does your camera control you or you it? It is good for us all to revisit some basics, and for those who are just relying on the camera, to spend some time digging deeper into it.
This weeks exercise is about exploring focusing, controlling it, and using it to your advantage.
EX98 Vantage Points
In this weeks exercise we will try photographing the same object from different vantage points. Eye to eye, looking down on and looking up. We can see if this indeed does change our reading of the photograph.
EX97 Patterns
In this weeks exercise we go back to our composition course and revisit pattern. We have developed the ability to sort for difference and similarity.
EX96 The Edges are always important
In this weeks exercise we concentrate on the edges of the frame. Putting effort into them at the time of capture saves us lots of work latter.