June 2020: Photography with Projects in Mind

Photo Project June 2020

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Wendy North

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Project Themes For some time now I’ve been considering going for my ARPS (an award for Photographic merit with the Royal Photographic Society) but have struggled to find a project focus, possibly because my photographic interests are diverse.

For this photo-book I’ve chosen to share images that I’ve taken for my Blipfoto 365 photojournal during the month of June 2020. Although this is a project in its own right, in any one month I might be pursuing a number of different photographic themes.

I hope that by sorting my images into project sets it might help me to find a focus for the direction of travel towards my ARPS.

Page: 4 Reflections 8 Soft Focus and Slow Shutter - Around Home

20 Scaffolding 22 Garden - Soft Focus Flowers 26 Garden 30 Nature 38 Local Landscape

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An ongoing project for me throughout the month has been provided by the Camera Club focus on `reflections’ which is our special subject for the year.

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Spoon reflection

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Shadows and shells

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A big thank you to Robert Friel, who recently gave one of the RPS Distinction talks in collaboration with Janet Haines. This helped me to understand the way the Edit button on my i-phone App: Slow Shutter can be used and started me off a new photographic journey.

Because the app records a video clip, it alleviates some of the problems of light-drag that occur when using ICM in camera, and the edit button allows you to select and save individual frames As the Slow-Shutter still images are quite small, I’ve been trialling Topaz Gigapixel GI to resize.

One underlying theme for me throughout the month has been creating images with a softer focus. Gwen John’s paintings of her domestic environment come to mind and the way they evoke memory. So this month I’ve been using the Lensbaby Composer, my i-phone and the Slow Shutter App, and my 50mm 1.4 lens on my Cannon 7DII.

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Taken with 50mm Canon lens on a cropped sensor

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Fruit bowl 1

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Fruit bowl 2

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Memory and Loss 1

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Memory and Loss 2

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The scaffolding has been sitting outside our house for several weeks now and has provided a different subject to my usual stand-by of photographing the garden. I chose to use the Lensbaby and 50mm Cannon Lens to create these images.

(They’ve finally arrived to begin work today and are busy chipping out the old mortar. Thank goodness that the walls of our house are thick and absorbing much of the racket.)

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These photos return to an ongoing project of creating images of flowers with a soft-focus. On this occasion using a Lensbaby Composer.

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I’ve been recording the month by month changes in the garden ever since I began keeping a photo-journal on Blipfoto i(Oct 2010). It’s good to be able to look back at how the garden has changed and also to see how the weather in a particular year influences what flowers and when. Several years ago I also began a project to photograph nature in the garden.

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Pye Flatt Meadows SSSI

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My Blipfoto journal always has a set of the locations I travel or walk through. The ones I’m sharing are all taken within a few miles of home and all photos taken with my i-phone 7. The bottom ones were taken at Worsbrough Mill using Slow-Shutter, which has been my Phone App of

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During the continuing `lockdown’ of June 2020, when the weather changed and rain appeared, I stopped doing quite so much in the garden and found myself influenced by the ideas and photo sharing of a number of photographers including:

Martin Addison - from whom I learnt a new method of creating photopanels using Lightroom. Also for re-introducing me to ISSUU and in particular its usefulness for creating Photo books.

Rob Friel - for making me aware of the Edit button on Slow Shutter. (RPS Zoom talk), the discovery of which has opened up all kinds of creative possibilities for my photography.

Steve Gosling - for his inspirational RPS Zoom talk on Photography and Creativity. One module of my MA was on creativity and it’s an aspect of learning that has always been an important part of who I am, so it was good to see how Steve brought this to life through the photographic examples he shared.

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