Category: Tutorial
A study on a particular topic with an explanation or evaluation on how it works or what it does. Tutorials are intended to convey learnings, which it is hoped, are correct.
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Essay on Oriental Landscapes
This study began with the question “how do I capture feeling and or convey meaning in landscape images?” Many of my shots are landscapes. In 2011 I took 20,846 pictures; 11,296 include the keyword landscape. This number reflects the reality that landscape photography represents a significant part of my work. I’ve found subject matter to be…
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Pictorialism
The Sessionists of the late 19th and early 20th century where those committed to the notion that photography could be elevated to high art. Many factors fuelled the movement but central to it was the Pictorialists’ belief in personal expression rather than a literal depiction of the world as the purpose of photography. The emphasis…
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Straight Photography
The term straight photography [sometimes referred to as Pure Photography] probably originated in a 1904 exhibition review in Camera Work by the critic Sadakichi Hartmann, in which he called on photographers “to work straight.” He urged them to produce pictures that looked like photographs rather than paintings—a late-nineteenth-century approach known as Pictorialism. To do so meant rejecting…
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Toronto Urban Photography
This workshop, presented by Richard Hulbert, was on architectural photography touching on street and travel photography. The latter two because, buildings are often bracketed by streets and travel is often to cities. Architectural photography however is not just about the buildings, it includes the environment they participate in, that the create; the co-existence of buildings, nature,…
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Conceptual Photography
In March 2013 I completed a course entitled Conceptual Photography at the Ontario Centre for Arts & Design. A different focus than other photography courses or workshops I have attended; it was conceptual as promised. Ultimately the course was about the process and not specific technologies or techniques. The end result — the outcome — of the process is a portfolio of…