Assignments, assessments, tasks, whatever you want to call them.

So basically a looooot has happened ever since uni started. It's actually quite hard to believe that I've done so much work in the past four weeks, because if this was high school, I'd probably only have written one page of notes, if any at all.

Photography 1: Film Photography. Assignment #1 - 20%

Exploring the use of apertures and shutter speeds on film SLRs. We learnt how to wash, develop and print our negatives. It sounds simple, but the process is pretty tedious and really technical. I actually messed up my first roll of film as well as a stack of my photo paper, because I exposed it to light directly. But hey, I guess that's how you learn.

Photographic Intervention: Light & Space Triptych. Assignment #1 - 20%

Explore how light is used to intervene to create space. What we had to do was explore the area of the city and create a triptych which best communicates the idea of light & space. Because they specified the city, all I could really think of was buildings, so I focussed purely on taking photos of buildings and how light & space is achieved within such images.

And well here we are, four weeks into uni life and I've already finished to assignments. The photography intervention assignment was due today, and to top things off, they brought in critics to critique our work, after we gave a mini presentation. I'd been stressing about it ever since we received the task 2 weeks ago, and by the time it was over, I stumbled, paused midway and completely messed up, but hey, it's the first task, I was sick, and it's the first time I've ever had to critique my own work. So it's okay. For now.

My photography 1 assignment is actually due next Wednesday, but because all our 7 prints had to be printed with the exact same settings, height, etc. except for the filters, I finished everything last Wednesday, so all that's left is to crop out the clumsy white borders which I can easily do on Wednesday.

I honestly would never have thought I'd be able to achieve so much in less than a month, especially considering that I haven't done much work at home still. Haha.

But this relaly is just the beginning, and I've already got 3 lovely assignments to look forward to:

Photography History & Theory: We're creating a mini photography dictionary full of terms and photographers, so everyone has been allocated a single word to write a 400-500 word essay on it. My word - Diorama.

Photography 1: We're exploring the use of exposures, dealing with both long and short exposures, where we need to capture our partner in an activity they love, or their cultural background.

Photographic Intervention: We're collaborating with the Interior Design students which will end with a gallery exhibition of our works in week 9.

Anyways, that's about it for now.

It's too hot to think & I just want to relax after such a crazy day today.