NCFE Level I Course - Portfolio #1
This is the first portfolio I have ever really created - certainly for photography. It was created for the NCFE Level 1 Course I took in Photography in early 2017. A hugely enjoyable course full of laughter, fun and new friends; it is still a fond memory for me.
The title of this Portfolio is 'Five Trees' as it is partly about a family of 5 oak trees which appear to walk across the landscape in between two fields in West Hanningfield, Essex.
I introduced it like this:
This 10-photograph portfolio is the study of a ‘family’ group of 5 Oak trees, and the wider landscape in which they inhabit, situated between two farmers’ fields in Essex. I have captured images of these trees across a range of weather and light conditions using a variety of styles taken from my study of other photographers, as well as utilising techniques discovered on the NCFE Level 1 Photography Course.
To me, this is a family group which has been frozen in time. Comprising ’Granddad’, ’Grandma’, ’Dad’, ’Mother’ and ’Child’; the organic manner of how the trees have grown and the manner in which they appear to almost ‘walk’ along a ditch between the two arable fields; enabled me to capture a variety of images designed to bring out the sheer beauty of nature in the first three months of 2017.
Nature has helped me enormously of course. Essex has (at times) an incredible light luminescence, and the family of trees are (by design or a pleasing accident) positioned in an enjoyably ‘wavy’ line. Across the group, they display a graduated fall in height (as if they are walking towards the main road), and the farmed fields either side of them locate them quite firmly in this lovely green landscape.
So, to benefit from the ‘full effect’ of the images which follow; please turn this portfolio 90° to the right in order to enjoy them in the way they were recorded on my Canon EOS-700D/T5i….
Alan Mitchell
Like the second Portfolio, I am generally content with how this turned out. There are areas I'd like to change, ideas I have now which escaped me then; but in general I am fairly proud of the way I dealt with the course, the creativity and the tasks and challenges I encountered as part of it..
If you want to see these photos set to music in a video, then please visit my YouTube Channel and view it here
The title of this Portfolio is 'Five Trees' as it is partly about a family of 5 oak trees which appear to walk across the landscape in between two fields in West Hanningfield, Essex.
I introduced it like this:
This 10-photograph portfolio is the study of a ‘family’ group of 5 Oak trees, and the wider landscape in which they inhabit, situated between two farmers’ fields in Essex. I have captured images of these trees across a range of weather and light conditions using a variety of styles taken from my study of other photographers, as well as utilising techniques discovered on the NCFE Level 1 Photography Course.
To me, this is a family group which has been frozen in time. Comprising ’Granddad’, ’Grandma’, ’Dad’, ’Mother’ and ’Child’; the organic manner of how the trees have grown and the manner in which they appear to almost ‘walk’ along a ditch between the two arable fields; enabled me to capture a variety of images designed to bring out the sheer beauty of nature in the first three months of 2017.
Nature has helped me enormously of course. Essex has (at times) an incredible light luminescence, and the family of trees are (by design or a pleasing accident) positioned in an enjoyably ‘wavy’ line. Across the group, they display a graduated fall in height (as if they are walking towards the main road), and the farmed fields either side of them locate them quite firmly in this lovely green landscape.
So, to benefit from the ‘full effect’ of the images which follow; please turn this portfolio 90° to the right in order to enjoy them in the way they were recorded on my Canon EOS-700D/T5i….
Alan Mitchell
Like the second Portfolio, I am generally content with how this turned out. There are areas I'd like to change, ideas I have now which escaped me then; but in general I am fairly proud of the way I dealt with the course, the creativity and the tasks and challenges I encountered as part of it..
If you want to see these photos set to music in a video, then please visit my YouTube Channel and view it here