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Archna Singh

Archna Singh

My journey as an OCA student of Photography

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  • Coursework
    • Part one Workflow:Landscapes and environments
      • Project 1_100 Photos
      • Project 2 Shadows
        • Exercise 1.6 Light and shadow
      • Project 3 Stillness and Movement
        • Exercise 1.12 Smash!
    • Part two Image: The Portrait
      • Project 1 Activity, depth and distance
        • Exercise 2.1 Subject Vs. Background
        • Exercise 2.2 People and activity
        • Exercise 2.3 Depth: foreground, mid-ground, background
        • Exercise 2.4 The two-dimensional plane
      • Project 2 Experimenting with portrait
        • Exercise 2.5 An identi-kit portrait
        • Exercise 2.6 Near and far
      • Project 3 Exploring the effects of light
        • Exercise 2.7 People in light
        • Exercise 2.8 Fill-flash
        • Exercise 2.9 A night portrait
      • Project 4 Three techniques
        • Exercise 2.10 Dodging and burning
        • Exercise 2.11 Split contrast
        • Exercise 2.12 Pixel painting
    • Part three Communication: Narrative
      • Project 1 Series and Sequence
        • Exercise 3.1 Searching
        • Exercise 3.2 Series
        • Exercise 3.3 Sequence
        • Exercise 3.4 Documenting change
        • Exercise 3.5 Photographs from text
      • Project 2 Genre In Photography
        • Exercise 3.6 Mixing genres
        • Exercise 3.10 A formal portrait
    • Part Four Experimentation: Still Life
      • Project 1 Experimenting with still life
        • Exercise 4.1 Fragments
        • Exercise 4.2 Constructed imagery
      • Project 2 Combining images, objects and concepts
        • Exercise 4.4 Patchwork
        • Exercise 4.5 Layers
        • Exercise 4.6 Using image layers in Photoshop
        • Exercise 4.7 Photomontage
        • Exercise 4.8 Photomontage in Photoshop
        • Exercise 4.9 Repetition
      • Project 3 Learning from other photographers
        • Exercise 4.11 Emulation
  • Assignments
    • Assignment One: One Square Mile
    • Assignment Two: Painting with light
    • Assignment Three: A narrative photograph
    • Assignment Four: Responding to a theme
    • Assignment Five – a personal project
  • Research & Reflections
    • Part two Image: The portrait
      • Reflections and thoughts on Assignment two: Painting with Light
      • Thoughts and Reflections post Assignment 2
    • Part III Communication: Narrative
      • RESEARCH – SERIES AND SEQUENCE – I – Dayanita Singh
      • RESEARCH – SERIES AND SEQUENCE – II – Robert Enoch
      • RESEARCH – SERIES AND SEQUENCE – learnings form photographers
      • TYPOLOGY – Part III – Series and Sequence
      • Relationship between Image and Text – Learning from photographers and artists
      • Project 3 Photography as visual research: Reasearch & Learning from photgraphers and coursework
    • Part IV: Experimentation: Still life
      • Thoughts and Reflections on Part four : Still life
      • Research point – Self reflection
    • Part five Exhibition: Concept
      • Reflections – Thoughts at the beginning of assignment 5: Your personal project
      • Initial Ideas – Assignment Five |A Personal Project
      • INITIAL IDEAS – ASSIGNMENT FIVE |A PERSONAL PROJECT – II
    • Picture Analysis
      • Picture analysis The Conversation
      • Picture analysis Zelt (Tent)
      • Picture analysis Laura Letinsky
      • Picture analysis Sophie Calle
    • Tutor Feedback
      • Reflections on Tutor Feedback – One Square Mile
      • Reflections on Tutor Feedback – Painting with light
      • Reflections on Tutor Feedback – A Staged Photograph
      • Reflections on Tutor feedback: Assignment 4
    • OCA Student Blogs
  • Personal
    • Muscle Power
    • Tigers of Ranthambhore
    • Leopards of India, Africa and Sri Lanka

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Posted on October 16, 2018

INITIAL IDEAS – ASSIGNMENT FIVE |A PERSONAL PROJECT – II

Mulling it over Talk about your ideas with friends, family and your OCA peers. • What is the possible visual outcome? Remember that your aim is to make photographs, so your ideas need to be visual or you need to find a way to visualize them. Since I was torn between two ideas, I had …

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Posted on July 24, 2018

Picture analysis Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle’s work exists on the borders of photography and conceptual art. Her work is rarely aesthetic in the pictorial sense but stems from her curiosity at realizing an idea or action. Calle had been following strangers in the streets of Paris and one day met one of these strangers in a gallery and overheard …

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