Review of My Objectives: 26 July 2019

I set out my objectives in my last post in this section. I will review my progress on these.

Skills:
Film Photography
My objective was to start developing and printing my own work. I have achieved this by recommissioning my darkroom and obtaining a medium format enlarger. I have successfully developed 35mm and 120mm film and printed these up to 10x8in sizes.
This is an ongoing project. I intend to submit my next assignment as silver prints and have started making images for this. However I believe I need to gain more experience with the behaviour of different film and papers stock, and ensure the standard of my final prints is as high as possible.

Videography
I had been using the Adobe publication Premiere Pro CC: Classroom in a Book to develop my editing skills. However the importance of his area is less at the moment and I have concentrated on my film still photography. As a result improving my videography remains ongoing.

Use of WordPress
I have been able to alter the headings and menus appropriate to my needs. I do not see this now as an important area to develop and concentrate on. Related to this I have also started using “Rocketbook” notebooks and phone app. This enables me to quickly and easily convert my handwritten notes in to pdf files and file them in a way that they can be accessed from my learning log or by my tutor with the appropriate link.

Assessment and appraisal skills
This is an ongoing task and I think will continue throughout and beyond the course. I feel I have more confidence in this area, and have included in my log my reflections on images. I now need to seek the views of my tutor and/or others as to whether my assessment is reasonable and accurate.

Knowledge:
My objective was to gain a better understanding of other art disciplines and influence on photographic work. While like the previous objective I think this will continue throughout and beyond the course, I do think I have achieved some steps forward in this.
I have referenced other art disciplines in my learning log and by attending the last OCA study day gained insight into the work of students, other than those studying photography.
I still have a long way to go…

To gain an insight into more contemporary and historical approaches to photography
This is another ongoing objective, but I have been reading more widely and think that my approach to research of this topic is more systematic and better informed. It has been greatly helped by discovering the course reading list which is at the end of the paper notes and not referenced earlier in the notes or included in the pdf file. It has taken me a year to find this.

Attitudes:
The main objective here I think relates to the Assessment area of
Demonstration of creativity – Imagination, experimentation, invention
I have concerns that this is an area in which I am weak, and this remains so. I plan to seek more feedback from my tutor about this and advice as to how to improve

I hope that a better understanding of the creative process used by other artists will help me develop this more.

These are the main objectives I have. I think I have approached the coursework more systematically lately and begun to address some of these as a result.