ADI: Website Mock-Up


Photographer: Luigi Ghirri


Note: Clicking on the 'Title' takes you to an article and clicking on the photograph takes you to a gallery of photographs.

Beach Photography by Bran


Beach Photography by Bran

APDP: Lith II

  • Lith printing
  • Fotospeed LD20 (Lith Dev A and Lith Dev B)
  • Foma MG paper
  • Possible Lith block booking for 08/01/11
  • Order chemicals and paper
  • Video of Photographer (Gilliver?)

ADI: BookSmart I

  • Install Blurb profile for soft-proofing
  • blurb.com > help > color mgt < download icc profile
  • library > color sync > profiles
  • Must be sRGB
  • edit > convert to profile > sRGB + Perceptual
  • Use black point compensation
  • view > proof > custom > blurb_icc_Profile.icc
  • Brightness on screen v brightness in print
  • View Full Book
  • Same look/font for website and book?
  • Next week - paper prototype of book (pdf) (dummy images)

Photographer: Vivian Maier

Road Trip: Independent B&B v Chain Hotel

Research: What Makes a Good Photo Book?


Research: Conceptual Documentary Photography

Migrant Mother - Just in case you missed it...


The Migrant Mother was spotted today in Analogue Photography (also known as Film Photography before digital came along).Don't worry if you missed her, I'm sure she will be along again soon!

Documenting the Real: Street Photography II

  • Street Photography & You
  • Time Planning & organisation
  • Talent as an operator & Administrator
  • Finding the Passion
  • Section 44
  • Constantly changing guidelines, Catch 22
  • Public Perception
  • Metropolitan Police Photography Guidelines
  • Section 43
  • Section 76
  • Deleting of images
  • Notion of Self censorship
  • Private life of the photographer!
  • Pre-visualising
  • The Human Condition (Vimeo)
  • Free range - move around - juxtaposition
  • Interaction - ask for permission

Photographer: Richard Nicholson

Shit Photojournalism

ACPP: Road Trip

  • Cameras? Who has one with them?
  • Graft - Magic happens every so often
  • Self-motivation
  • Assignment - Open Brief
  • Critical Journals - Shots from today
  • Way of trying to engage with medium
  • Road Trip - Recording of a Journey
  • TODD HIDO - 'Househunting'
  • How would pictures look to someone who has never seen the place?
  • Hunts around for hours
  • This type of project is accessible to us all
  • ALEX SOTH - 'Sleeping by the Mississippi' 
  • Created his own books (maquette)
  • "You can only find your own voice if you are not intimidated by work that has been done before"
  • PAUL GRAHAM - 'A1 - The Great North Road'
  • Vehicle to create a narrative
  • We don't see many photographers working this way in the UK

ADI: Book Symposium

  • Books
  • Chapters
  • White Space
  • Self Publish Be Happy
  • Similar images boring?
  • Smithsonian Robert Frank's 'The Americans'
  • Passionate - Book Tells - SPBH
  • CMYK Paper
  • My Books, Contraband (Taryn Simon) & From Here to There (Alec Soth)

APDP: Lith I

  • Lith Printing
  • Book: "The Master Photographer's Lith Printing Course" by Tim Rudman
  • Using Fibre paper
  • Longer enlarger times (sixty secs)
  • Snatch from developer (once it appears it comes through fast)
  • Give it full stop and fix times
  • Extra rinsing trays
  • Drying by warm air not roller

Web Design Usability

Format Photography Festival

Format Photography Festival - 4th March to 3rd April 2011 (Derby)

Leica M8 Photos













All photographs shot in Aperture priority at f/2 and ISO 640
(No editing)

Setting Photographic Goals


Setting Photographic Goals - An interesting article byThom