First ever blog entry! The work so far...

Hello, my name is Faye Rambadt, and I have just started a course at Blackburn university centre studying an FD course in Photographic Media. So far, myself and my fellow students have been asked to carry out certain pieces of independent research mainly in our History of Art Lectures with Chris Aughton, on artists relating to certain topics/pieces of art work we study in class time. We are instructed to take notes and when researching and annotating, we need to consider four vital questions;

• How does this relate to you and your subject area (Photography)?
• In what ways have we developed and changed from this time?
• In what ways does Art & Design function today compared to back then?
• What questions does looking at this specific subject raise?

We have also been taught how to use the basic tools and editing techniques in 'Adobe Photoshop Light Room 2' with our personal tutor John Harrison. Andrew Farrington has been showing us different lighting techniques with natural daylight and and natural daylight. We have compared the two to see which lighting method gave us the best exposure when taking a photograph for a specific scenario. Andy has also discussed with us different types of lighting equipment (their purposes and how they are operated etc) the characteristics of lighting, and exposure such as the aperture (F numbers and depth of field), focus and shutter speed (fractions of speed). We took some images on our Digital SLR cameras, which I will upload shortly.