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Amber Houbara
Dec 68 min read
P | P5 | AS 5 Photography is simple | Part 3 Presentation
Wadandi Moorditj Yorga Saltwater Strong Women My aim in this project is to present women in surfing. Surfing is a male dominant sport,...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 62 min read
P | P5 | AS5: Photography is Simple | Part 2 Process Work
This project was pretty special, initially when I had the idea I was doubting myself a little bit, and eventually even when I tried to...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 511 min read
P | P5 | AS 5 Photography is simple | Part 1 Research & Concept Development
‘There are two fundamentals in all picture taking – where to stand and when to release the shutter ... so photography is very simple.’...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 51 min read
Museum Visits: The Surf Museum, Denmark WA
On our trip down south we stopped at the wonderful surf museum in Denmark WA. I felt so inspired by these photographs and well preserved...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 51 min read
Museum Visits: Hiroshi Sugimoto | From my archive 2017
I was amazed to find in my archive i was present at Hiroshi Sugimoto's exhibition in 2017 when I visited Israel, I did in fact remembered...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 22 min read
Photographs and Contexts
For a short introduction to how context operates in relation to photographs, read Terry Barrett’s essay ‘Photographs and Context’:...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 23 min read
P | P5 | EX3: Looking at photography
‘When somebody sees something and experiences it - that’s when art happens’ (Hans-Peter Feldman) If photography is an event then looking...
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Amber Houbara
Dec 25 min read
P | P5 | EX2: Homage
Select an image by any photographer of your choice and take a photograph in response to it. You can respond in any way you like to the...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 273 min read
P | P5 | EX1: The distance between us
Use your camera as a measuring device. This doesn’t refer to the distance scale on the focus ring. Rather, find a subject that you have...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 207 min read
P | P4 | AS4 Languages of light
As a distance learning student at OCA you’re not an autodidact, you have the benefit of tutor reports and a formal assessment at the end...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 182 min read
P | P4 | Ex4: Personal Voice
Make a Google Images search for ‘landscape’, ‘portrait’, or any ordinary subject such as ‘apple’ or ‘sunset’. Add a screengrab of a...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 182 min read
P | P4 | Ex3: Egg or stone
Use a combination of quality, contrast, direction and colour to light an object in order to reveal its form. For this exercise, we...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 182 min read
P | P4 | EX2: Artificial Light
Capture ‘the beauty of artificial light’ in a short sequence of shots (‘beauty’ is, of course, a subjective term). The correct white...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 124 min read
P | P4 | EX1: Daylight
Taking the photography of Mann, Atget or Schmidt or a photographer of your own choosing as your starting point, shoot a number of...
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Amber Houbara
Nov 93 min read
P | P4 | Research
Light is measured by the camera’s light meter – but how does the camera translate this measurement into a usable exposure? In auto and...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 316 min read
P | P3 | AS3: The (in)decisive moment
‘The decisive moment is not a dramatic climax but a visual one: the result is not a story but a picture.’ (Swarkowski, 2007, p.5) ‘You...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 284 min read
P | P3 | Research Point: The Decisive Moment
Watch the Henri Cartier-Bresson documentary ‘ L’amour de court’ (‘ Just plain love ’, 2001) available on Vimeo:...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 252 min read
PH | P3 | EX3: What matters is to look
'If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything’ Ruth Bernhard (1902-2006) Alberto Giacometti had already...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 244 min read
P | P3 | EX2: Trace
Start by doing your own research into some of the artists discussed above. Then, using slow shutter speeds, the multiple exposure...
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Amber Houbara
Oct 244 min read
P | P3 | EX1 Freeze
Start by doing some of your own research into the photographers discussed above. Then, using fast shutter speeds, try to isolate a frozen...
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