Sydney Light Show

Sydney will be ablazed with light shows while we are up there.

Part of the Lumiocity exhibition

The Museum of Contemporary Art - The Rocks

Night Photography - Some tips & BLOGS!!

The night photography excursion was great fun and I think you got some interesting and successful results. Nice image on Pradnya's blog. I hope you all will post something.

Robert, Lidia, John, Luke, Kristy, Lionel , Sean I haven't seen anything on your blogs for ages??? This is a good opportunity..remember this blogging is part of your assessment.


Best and consistant blogs are Sandra, Pete, James and Pradnya.
Okay but a few more would be good from Alycia, Ben, Kacie and Narmin


We will be doing more of night photography in Sydney so if you can bring a small
LIGHTWEIGHT tripod or even one of those tiny cheap ones at the
reject shop that will help.

For those who didn't get there last night here are some tips:

Use Manual mode
Use Raw
ISO 100 - 400
Must use stable tripod
Take a flash light
Set focus to manual - you may have trouble with focus..use a light source to help focus.
Use the 10sec timer

Set F stop wide F4 etc
Set exosure time 10 secs to 30 secs.
Avoid direct light source especially orange lights.

In winter wear something warm!
Have a spare charged battery, long exposures uses up battery life quickly.

You can adjust image on Photoshop and reveal amazing colours.

Night Photography Excursion

Meet Thursday 27 June, 6 pm at Heritage Hills /St James Church, 51 Langhorne Street.

Bring Tripod and SLR digital camera (no point and shoot).

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Next Week timetable change

There will be a figure drawing class next Thursday 27 May.

This class has swopped with Tuesday morning. We will work on the Public Art project this Tuesday 25 in the morning from 10 am.

Stressed?

We are at that time of year with an upcoming critique, a semester fast coming to an end when students start to feel some pressure. I've just read some of your recent blogs and I empathise.

I'm not sure if there is any easy solution, but I do know that worry is a useless emotion and doesn't help you.

Part of the learning process is learning how to create a balance and use time effectively. Often jobs that should take a short time can take you ages, and I guess it is through this experience that you discover this. I find for students, what you set out to achieve, what you think is good and what is good is often two very different things.

The critique is NOT something that should burden you. Yes, you should try your best and try completing and resolving your work to the best of your ability, but at the end of the day, all it is , is a moment of reflection, a time to look at yourself, a time to see how you may do things differently, a time to ask questions and to learn.

Everyone learns differently and at their own pace, and art "clicks" for people at different times. you just need to keep pursuing it and enjoying the 'half adventure' that happens as you push yourselves.

Drawing this week is a good example, a change in medium, a different influence (video) may be all it takes for something new to click and your find new ground..something works.

I thought I'd post the following:

Stress is not what happens to us. It is our response to what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose. Maureen Killoran

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without our thinking. Albert Einstein

There is more to life than increasing its speed . Gandhi

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nathalie Goldberg

There is a healthy state of upliftment and anticipation when you are totally involved with your work and inspired by what you are doing, try to find this state of mind.

Critique - Friday and other news

There may be some confusion about the upcoming Critique. It is Friday , 21 May (not June).

This is an opportunity to resolve any problems before we get to the end of the semester which isn't too far away. We will talk about the work and make suggestions, so try to see the critique as a useful learning tool.

We now seem to be back on track and work is going well. We are a little behind with video work and it is really important you give time at home to resolve your ideas, as otherwise it's hard to move forward with this.

The council's response to the public art projects has been fantastic, and its great to see everyone really getting involved and enthused with this project.

Student work is now on display in the international meeting room. And there are promising signs that you can exhibit large scale photography at the Dandenong Plaza.

We have a night photography next week Thursday 27 May. I will discuss arrangements this Thursday in class.

Payment for Sydney is now urgent.. there is a meeting this Thursday at 11.30 am in J202a to discuss arrangements.

There was an interesting program on TV on the French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand
He is worth having a look at on the web. Has anyone seen his 2009 documentary film 'HOME' ?


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