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I am facing new challenges by uploading/writing my journal on the Internet, embracing the ' Digital' realm. A visual diary is within my comfort zone but I am following the trend, keeping up with the times, stepping out of the comfort zone.

It is the second week of DFAP and I am still undecided on a topic of exploration. Many ideas that are floating around are:

- Architecture
- Portraiture
- Melbourne
- Simplicity, Design and Line.

Usually I undertake more than I can handle within an art unit. But undertaking four major themes and combining them to make one could work when using Photography. Except for Portraiture as it seems to stick out from the rest of my list. Hopefully I will be able to decide on something soon. I intend to pick up the camera take some warm up shots and hopefully my theme will become highlighted within the photos taken.

Week 1: The Genius of Photography ( Video ABC)

I found this video quite interesting, especially the artists featured. Some interesting notes I took are below , On the history of Photography and also artists featured beginning in the 1920s .

- The camera was viewed as a machine.

-The 1920s could be seen as a central element in time as holding a camera could be thought as holding the future.

- Failure to understand photography meant that you were seen as the illiterate of the future.

- Donovan Wylie : " You'll only get to know something if you can compare it to something else" ( Wylie photographed towers at eye level to see the complete scale, wanting to produce pure documents, facts and nothing else.)

- Alexander K : " declared painting to be dead; a dead art form ", " The camera is the tool of the new artist" . During this time the camera and its artists/ photographers were serving a large political population.

- Compact light weight hand held cameras proposed freedom and to be free from the tripod this one step made the camera revolutionary due to the fact of beginning the process to eradicate ' Belly Button Photography'. The new style of the camera also gave artists more room to be creative within photography it gave them a chance to change the perspective and perception of an object. Photography can be mailable/manipulated.

-Eugene Atget:
-The Monet comparison
-Looking at the boarder line of one reality to another ( dadaism/surrealism imprinting objects onto photo paper ), pushed into the deep reality of the unreal ( unconscious mind) .

- 1926 Surrealist/makers of document meet.

- 1929 Great year for photography/film , Britain was asleep during this time. The main action and upbringing on photography was in Russia and Germany.


Week 2: 'The shoot'

This week we learnt about the Cannon 1000D. I found the technical aspects easy to understand from previous experience, but when I went outside to take my photos ( during the shoot) I forgot to change the settings for different conditions. So I would take a shot with the specifications for the last shot and then remember to change and then take another. Which I don't think is that efficient nor effective.

In the next two posts I will post photos from week 2 and also some photos in my collection that I have taken over the years.

Enjoy!
Regards Reanna.