Ian Macdonald Tutorial

Group Tutorial; Ian Macdonald

After Ian Macdonalds lecture on friday i was lucky enough to join with a small group of ccad students from across different subjects such as photography, fine art and illustration, to have a tutorial with Ian in which we were able to show him our work and receive critique and feedback. What i found most interesting about the whole tutorial was actually being able to see the work of other students from other subject and listen to them explain how and why they had created these pieces, as its not very often we get chance to view the work of other students that are not in our subject. 

This linked well with what Ian had been speaking about in his lecture, when he was explaining how he created pieces of art like collage and drawings as well as photography. As explained in my previous post, i have a great interest in art, such as drawing and painting, but never thought to carry it on since starting photography, however after Ian's lecture and this tutorial i became to realise that all art forms interlink. A lot of the illustration and fine art students either used photography in their work or copied from photographs to create their work. understanding painting, drawing and other art forms helps build knowledge when capturing an image. 

For the tutorial with Ian i took in my first 3 rolls of coloured film i had ever shot. I had only picked them up from being developed that day so had barely had the chance to look through them and narrow them down myself. Ian layed my images out on the table for him and the other students to see, he then began to sort the images into landscape and portrait. From there he began to eliminate the less successful images, narrowing it down. Ian basically gave myself and the group and 5 minute tutorial in how to edit images into a selection. I was amazed at the way he did this. 

I explained how the images i had captured had been taken in hartlepool and the nearby village of Blackhall Colliery. I had no real concept behind my images, they were just what i had gone out and shot, i literally just took images of anything that caught my eye.  Ian began to create a narrative behind my images. He chose an image of an old lady shopping, then began to create a story around her by choosing images of shops and places you may image this lady to go. This was something i found so incredibly interesting as it was something i would never have thought to have done. 



Ians final Edit of my images: