John Boyd Macdonald
John Boyd Macdonald
This post contains some thoughts on the depiction of ‘narrative’ in still photography, and was written as notes for my Private Thoughts in Public Places project. Photographers have sought to portray narrative in their work since the inception of the…
Private Thoughts in Public Places is a short (12 minute) video slideshow (with voices, music and subtitle text) which I prepared as a studio practice project for my studies at the ANU School or Art. It aims to bring into…
One of the pleasures of living in this ‘Garden City’ is that, even though I live in an ‘inner suburb’, I can walk a hundred meters to the end of my street and be deep in eucalypt bushland. Red Hill…
There’s a number of ‘artistic’ effects filters that come as part of the Photoshop software (under the menu option ‘Filter’ in subfolders ‘Artistic’, ‘Brush strokes’ ‘Sketch’, ‘Stylise’ etc). By and large I try to avoid using them as I mostly…
I still keep making High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. I can’t help it. This popular technique involves making a series (usually three or five) images with identical composition, usually on a tripod to ensure an exact alignment of the images.…
Here’s a ramble about the convergence of ‘still’ photography and video: We often seem to define our selves (and if artists, define our artistic practice) by the limits of what we do. Perhaps this helps us to maintain a coherent…
This is a short (3 minute) video that I prepared for my Studio Practice work at the ANU School of Art. In part it was done to develop my skills with Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro and Audition, but it…
My exhibition (Sekala: ritual and ceremony in Bali) continues at PhotoAccess here in Canberra (PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery in Manuka, at the corner of Manuka Circle and NSW Crescent) until next Sunday 11 March. The experience of putting on my…