I was very much interested in photography from a long time.When I was a school boy I borrowed a camera from a friend and asked another friend to jump from a tree onto an underlying river.and I tried to take pictures and I may have taken about five shots and when I got the pictures printed I was very much disappointed as all the pictures were very blurred.I had no clue as to why it happened as I did not have any idea of shutter and speed of the shutter.Later on I got used to cameras and I always used the automatic setting.But the pictures came OK and until recently about 5-6 years ago I read about cameras, lenses, apertures and shutter speed. So to improve my techniques I joined the photography course at Burton College and I am learning new things.I am mainly interested in landscape photography, taking pictures of sunset, sunrise,landscapes, flowers and rivers.
when we asked to write about five photographers I chose John Blakemore
John Blakemore was born in Coventry in 1936.He was a landscape photographer.He mainly took black and white photos.He went to Tripoli and started his work with RAF.Then he returned to Coventry and started taking pictures of buildings those destroyed in the bombings in the war and at the same time buildings under reconstruction. He is now emeritus professor of photography at university of Derby
He enjoyed taking pictures of tulips and studied the flower and came to a conclusion that tulips undergo continuous mutation..He has written many books about black and white photography.He has exhibitions all over the world. The above first photograph is one of John Blakemore and the second one I had taken in colour and changed into black and white.There is a lot of difference between the two pictures.In my picture I had captured the whole plant and the background as well.Studying the picture from John Blakemore Now I know my faults are and I will try to get better in future by focusing mainly in the flower.Again converting from colour to B/W will not be as good as the original B/W.
Hi Umesh, I can see from your blog that your interested in photographing landscapes and nature etc, but you need to more specific in your ideas and expand on them in greater detail! If you could come up with a few initial ideas, then do some research and then develop your ideas, take some shots and then reflect upon them. You need to be doing this over the next week. I love the shots you've taken of flowers etc, start to group your images together and reflect on what you do and dont like about them and why. If you have any specific questions please e mail me. If you could get some stronger initial ideas down before wednesday that would be great, you can then start planning shoots etc. Have you done an action plan yet?? If not, could you do so for wednesday? This will give you a better idea of where you need to be by when and plan each piece of work etc. See you wednesday :)
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