Communication Technology 2

Statement of Intent

For this brief I want to explore digital photography. It feels like nowadays, anyone can go and buy an inexpensive digital camera, not know the first thing about photography and still take a good picture. And I'm wondering if photography as an art and a practice is any longer viable. I want to learn as much as I can in the next two months about digital photography in the hope that I can, with my new skills, stand out amongst the millions of other people with a digital camera. I've always played it safe and took photographs of the same kind of things becuase I know I can do that well, so for this brief I am going to stay away from macro photography, something I do a lot, and try something new and challenging. I especially want to learn how to use the studio as I do not know much about lighting or flash. And I also want to work on instructing models and making them feel confortable being photographed as I think this will be very useful in a real-life context.