CRIT 5 - 6 September 2010

1. Interior Architecture:
This category was a mission to do. I phoned how many guest houses and hotels to ask if I can shoot there interior and they just say 'NO' or they have so many excuses. But it sounded like they thought I will use the images and publish them in some magazine or newspaper. So I decided to go to the hotels and show them that I'm only a student and it's for an assignment. Then only did they agreed to let me shoot there interior.

The Oyster Box Hotel - Library

2. Exterior Architecture:

Here I had the same problem as for the above assignment. The first place I went to, they gave me a date to go and shoot there exterior and it was a horrible hazy day. So that image was just horrendous! I waited a couple of days later for the perfect day and we must shoot the exterior only in dusk, which was kind of a hard thing to do because in September its windy and cloudy at that time of the day! I decided to go shoot one of the hotels along the beach and it came out pretty rad. 

Suncoast Hotel & Towers

3. Perfume Ad:

(This was an online crit assignment that we got and was pretty cool to do.) 

Background - I used a rose but with a different angle of view. I also did it in my favorite style, Macro! Then I did a hue blending mode to change the rose from red to a pink-ish colour.
Bottle - We didn't get a studio booking for the perfume ad so I made a little studio at home. I used only two light sources, a back light and a light on top with two reflectors.
Slogan - This was hard, I just looked at the image one day and it just came to me, "Unleash your Femininity".

Black XS for Woman

CRIT 4 - 6 August 2010

1. Child at Play:
The one category I'm never keen of doing but it has to be done! I always wanted to do a shoot in a park where the child goes around that thing that spins. So I got a chance to do that but I must say it was pretty hard.



2. Documenting 2010:

2010 is the year for South Africa, tell us more about events taking place even behind the scenes.

For this assignment I went to the Fan Fest Park for a day and just tried to capture all the moments of that day.

3. Free Choice - Senses:

Feel, touch, smell, rhythm (hear), vision (see)... We had to choose one!

We were suppose to only choose one of the senses which I did but I also did another image with three senses. Because I want to specialize in macro I decided to use a fingerprint and to emphasize the wonderful texture on our finger tips to let us feel.

4. Landscape/Seascape:

It should show some depth, observe the difference between landscape and nature even though it falls in the category.

I decided to go on a boat trip to see Durban from a different view. I choose this image because I like when something pops out at you and then I used my land-/seascape as my backdrop.

5. Specialist - People in Environment:

Contractors, car washers, street vendors, etc.

After my boat trip I asked the skipper if I can take a photograph of him and because it's a specialist I tried to make the image look like an old black & white photo.

6. Urban Landscape:

To get the perfect location was a mission so I did some research on our city, Durban. Before I knew of a location, I knew I wanted to do the shoot at night. I finally got the perfect location and come up with this...

7. Architecture Magazine Cover:

Here we had to use our architecture photograph from CRIT 3.b. My biggest problem was that I didn't have much space to have any headings, so I had to create space around my image. I did some research and got great ideas from two different magazine covers. So I used those two elements to create my magazine cover.

8. Photomontage - Documenting 2010:

With this assignment I used my images from our Documenting 2010 assignment. This was a hard assignment I only got it right on the second montage I made, I used my images to create a contact sheet and then I used one of my images that I took on our tour around the Moses Mabhida Stadium. I decided to recreate the South African flag into our awesome stadium.

CRIT 3.b. - 21 May 2010

1. Architecture:
With architecture I like to show the pattern or lines of a building to emphasize it. 

Blue Water Hotel

2. Black & White Portrait - Studio:

120mm Black & White Film

Self processed and developed in the darkroom

I used my dad for this shoot because he has a bit of grey hair and some wrinkles and with black & white it shows texture awesomely.

Jakes Meiring

3. Fashion - Location:

120mm Transparency Film

I always wanted to do a photo shoot on the beach and I knew the perfect model for it. The coolest thing that happened on the shoot was some surfer guys coming up to me and asking me if I'm doing a shoot for 'Roxy'?

Jade Johnston

CRIT 3.a. - 7 May 2010

1. Fashion - Studio:
120mm Transparency Film
I got my boyfriend to be my model, luckily he doesn't mind! I wanted to give the image and feel of the image a funky-modern-vintage look.

Werner Louis Strydom

2. Free Choice - Body Art:

Luckily my one friend has quite a few tattoo's, so I took him to the beach at one of the peers. It's a free choice category so I gave my image a grunge effect to it. I like having a part of my subject in focus, so when I get the chance to do it...I do it!

Christopher Oelsen

3. Specialist - Sport:

This is a hard category because you have to have the right lenses but I tried my best...

Westville Boys High

CRIT 2 - 15 April 2010

1. Free Choice - Culture:
I did some research on this topic and found that a bonsai is a symbol of Japanese culture. Because it was a free choice I wanted to do nature, so it was really hard doing this, to get the right angle and to make it look like a bonsai.

Sherwood Nursery

2. Graduation:

I don't have much to say about this assignment but we had to do it so that the lecturers can see if we can shoot for the DUT graduation. For some reason we had such problems with the lighting haha... still don't know what we did wrong!

Kristyn Swanepoel

3. Nature:

120mm Colour Negative Film

This is my favorite category but what made it so hard was because we had to use the Mamiya RB67. This camera is kind of hard to maneuver especially if you have the wrong lens. Here I used my brother's matric dance date's corsage. 

Orchid

4. Specialist - People:

Here I did my brothers matric dance. I liked that the corsage is in focus and they are out of focus. Because it is a specialist category I decided to give it a sepia effect.

Stefan Meiring & Samantha Strydom