To evidence your learning throughout the 2005/5 Open College Course in Creative Digital Photography please

answer the following questions

Name?

• Health and Safety aspects

• Have you completed the H&S questionnaire?

• Did you understand the issues involved in Health and Safety both in and out of the darkroom?

• Did any issues arise from the completion of this document?

• List any comments you may have on the H&S issue

Photograms

• What were the photographic principles involved in the making of pictures without a camera?

• How were these pictures turned into positives?

• Who is generally credited with the invention of the photogram?

Man Ray

• When did Man Ray live and where?

• Where was he born? And where did he live most of his life?

• Name one of Man Rays models.

• What is the name of the ‘part negative part positive’ type of print that Man Ray was famous for?

Portraiture

• We studied several photographers in the first term – what was one of the most characteristic features of most of Snowdons pictures?

• Who wrote the foreword to Snowdons book ‘Stills 1983 – 1987’?

Karsh

• Name two of the many famous people Karsh photographed.

• Where did he have his studio?

• One average how many pictures did he take of his subjects?

• What size camera did he use?

Andre Kertesz

• When and where did Kertesz live?

• What was the Dadaist nickname for Kertesz?

Jack Hulme

• Where di he live?

• How was he discovered?

• What was the title of the best known book of Jack Hulmes work?

• What sort of camera did JH use in the latter part of his photographic life?

• What was a typical Jack Hulme picture about?

Jeanloup Sieff

• Where did he live most of his life?

• What is the name of his photographer daughter?

• Where did he work?

Darkroom

• Name the basic equipment used to produce negatives in the darkroom.

• What type of film can be processed in Colour chemistry but yields B&W negatives?

• Name the three chemical solutions used in developing film.

Darkroom

• What are the two areas of the darkroom known as?

• What controls the exposure of the print?

• How long should a print be developed for?

• What is the stop bath for?

• Why does the darkroom have complicated entrance?

Exposure

• What two factors control exposure?

• What is an aperture?

• Which aperture is physically larger f/4 or f/8

• If you make the print larger what happens to the correct exposure?

Linda McCartney

• Which group was Linda photographing when she found that her work was in demand?

• Which magazine did Linda work for in the 60’s?

• How many children did she and Paul have?

Street Photography - Project

• What was the ethos behind the street photography project?

• How did you understand the brief?

• What did you do to try to fulfil the brief?

• How would you assess your pictures from this project?

• What would you do differently if you had to undertake the project again?

Henri Cartier-Bresson

• Complete the phrase … Master of the divine …….’?

• What is the name of the photo agency that HCB helped form?

• Why have HCBs pictures got black borders?

• Why is he the greatest photographer who ever lived? (in a few words)

David Hockney

• Where was he born?

• Where does he live now?

• What does he call the multiple pictures he took in the 80’s?

• What was the title of the last picture he took with this technique?

Joiners - Project

• What does photographing something several times allow you to do?

• In deciding what size to make the individual pictures what do you need to take into consideration?

• What focal length of lens is better for this kind of photography?

• Which of the following four pictures are by which famous photographer?

• Give a brief comment on the picture.

• Choose from– Henri Cartier-Bresson– Andres Kertesz– Karsh– Man Ray

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

Picture 4

Composition

• Explain the rule of thirds?

• What is the phenomenon of colours becoming bluer the further away they are from the viewer?

• What time of day is the best to photograph landscapes?

Martin Parr

• Where did MP do much of his teaching?

• What word describes MP’s style of photography?

• Nowhere is the decay of the UK more evident than at ……………..? Complete

The Lomo Camera

• Where does the Lomo come from?

• What is the essence of the cult of the Lomo?

• Would you use one and why?

Details project

• What was the ethos behind the Details project?

• How did you understand the brief?

• What did you do to try to fulfil the brief?

• How would you assess your pictures from this project?

• What would you do differently if you had to undertake the project again?

Willi Ronis

• Where did Willi take most of his pictures?

• Who were some of Willi’s contemporaries in his home city?

• What style of photography did he employ?

Symmetry – mini project

• How did we investigate symmetry?

• Which face (classically) exhibits more beauty?

• When taking pictures for this project what angle had the face to be photographed from?

Donald McCullin

• Which war was McCullin’s war?

• McCullins early pictures for the Sunday Magazines were predominantly about what?

• What is DM photographing now?

Folios

• What criteria did you employ when selecting pictures for your folio?

• If you could go out and photograph anything else to include in your folio what would it be?

• Which pictures in your folio are your favourites and why?

• Which pictures do you least like and why?

Additional tasks

• Will you go though your workbook handouts and differentiate between the ones given to you by the Tutor and the ones produced by yourself.

• I have to undertake a critique of your work before it is handed in for moderation – I will let you have a copy of these documents

• Folios will have to be ready for 10th July 2006.