The Uses of Photography studio was truly a valuable class that I have taken. The class gave me an opportunity to learn the technical skill on both camera and editing (Using Adobe Lightroom) and also taught me how to reach the professional photographer level. Most…

In the class, Bella talked about if a photobook has a bad design, it may ruin the photographs. A well designed photobook should consider about its size, colour, type of paper, font, layout and more on. There are some key points that I gathered from Gerry…

To photograph is to record one’s life. In the digital era, people can easily access to camera where in the words of Joanna Zylinska, “In the age of the camera phone and wireless communication, we are all photographers now.” (Zylinska 2016) With camera phone, we…

For our final assessment, we are going to think about one theme and produce an individually photobook of twenty to thirty photographs. When I first heard about the task, there were so many thoughts running through my mind and I had no idea what was the best choice…

In order to produce a photo essay on strangers, we were asked to paired up with our classmates and introduced our friend to each other. I was paired up with Rachel and I had had no idea on who was I going to introduce to…

Due to some reason, my partner Rachel has to changed the option for me to photograph. For the new subject, she introduced me to a dancer who is interested in ballet and contemporary dance. We have arranged a time on Wednesday and I will be going…

This week we have been talked about photo essays. Photo essay is like storytelling which we use the collection of photographs to tell a story. Like the classic narrative structure in film or television, photography does have its own narrative structure that helps the viewers understand…

For Project Brief 3, we are going to produce a photo-essay of ten to fourteen photographs and the subject is going to be “stranger”. When I first heard about the task, I was kind of excited rather than afraid because I have photographed “strangers” for…

As I said in the last post, initially I was planning to take street portrait on the road randomly. However, I had an opportunity to go for the Melbourne Fashion Festival in the past few weeks so I decided to change the concept into street…

 For Project Brief 2, I have change a bit of the photographing style from street portrait to street fashion photography in taking inspiration from the Korean photographer Hongje Ahn. Ahn is a fashion photographer who mostly posts his photo on Instagram. In Ahn’s photograph, he usually…