Learning Photography | Creative Techniques [Week 4]

So this is it peeps. Husband’s last assignment for Camera Craft 2 at the ACP is upon us. I thought there would be one more assignment left, but turns out that is a negatory. Bummer. We’ll just have to wait until he does his next one {rumor has it that it’s going to be a 10 week “Lighting” course – hooray!}

This week’s assignment focuses on a Single Theme, which incorporates and reflects on the learnings form the past weeks – Composition, Lighting and Colour of Light. The idea needed to be communicated using some of the Creative Techniques included on the assignment list – i.e. Breaking Compositional & Lighting Rules, Cross Processing, Plastic/ Toy Cameras, Multiple Exposure, Montage, Polaroids etc.

Husband’s theme was “The Commute” – and specifically focusing on the contrast between the peak-hour hustle and bustle vs. the solitude and isolation of a {train} station. Neat, huh?

Armed with his DSLR and a brand new tripod {and me with my trusty iPhone}, we headed on a City Circle train station tour. Man, what a mission. Husband took a couple of photos at Kings Cross and Town Hall, and when we got to Wynyard he attempted to take a few more, but the security dudes came up to us and asked us to go and see the station manager. Turns out that you are pretty much not allowed to take photos inside any train stations due to security measures. Makes sense, right? They said that the professional photographers that shoot inside train stations pay serious mega-bucks and have to go through major security clearances as well. So we thought we were screwed… But we decided to not give up, so we proceeded to Circular Quay and finally St James {which is the station Husband really wanted to shoot}. There we acted as though we didn’t know anything about the “no photography inside station” policy, and kindly asked to speak to the station manager first. And he said yes. You lil’ ripper!

The photos you see here were taken mostly at St James, although there are a couple that were taken at Wynyard. My dodgy iPhone photos were taken all over the shop – as you can see… Fun assignment, but seriously exhausting.

What’s left now is for Husband to pick a photo to be included in the graduation exhibition which is coming up in the next few weeks. So I wanted to ask for your help – which photo do you like best? It can be an image from this series, or any one of his previous assignments. We would love to get your thoughts, so please leave a comment or, if you are shy, send me an e-mail to let me know which one’s your favourite. Deal?

Also, I’d love to hear from you about how you enjoyed this post series. Did you find it interesting, did you learn something, or was it just fun to follow? Would you like me to write about Husband’s next course? You see, these posts take quite a bit of time to put together, and I’d really like to know if I should ditch them, or if I should keep going. I’ll definitely do it if you guys really love them. And I’ll take your lack of commenting as a – yeah, whatever… I couldn’t care less if you keep posting about this or not Dana.

So as they say – the ball is in your court guys {Hey, nice balls – ha ha!}

And thank you in advance. Your feedback is invaluable and very much appreciated.

x dana