Week 2

I’m going to start by saying that I feel very overwhelmed by this class. I think it is the mixture of there being so many foreign components. I have never used flikr before, never created a blog and feel very out of my depth in regards to the photography side of things. Never the less, I am always keen to give things a go, so here goes nothing.

So this is my first entry, I’m not really too sure what to write. So far I have just been trying to get a handle of both this blog and flikr, I’ve uploaded some photos to flikr from my trip away over summer. i think you can find them there, my user name is Sarah Andelk.

I’ve never really used anything but a very average digital camera before but really enjoyed being able to have more control over the way the photographs came out in our session in last weeks class. I’m really looking forward to developing a greater understanding of the camera, therefore having more control over how the images come up.

So far I’ve looked at many flikr groups and many professional photographers, my head is swimming with them really. However I have found 2 that Stuart has suggested and have taken a liking to “plastic palace alice’s photostream” and “Lauren.rabbit’s photostream”. I am very drawn to the dreamy quality of Plastic palace alice’s work. The colours are captivating, with lots of warm, rich hues. By contrast, Lauren Rabbit’s work is very moody, in black and white but the detail and clarity of photos really caught my attention.