{"id":1271,"date":"2017-02-13T05:52:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T04:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2024-03-02T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T16:02:32","slug":"fotoacademie-second-year-period-1-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/fotoacademie-second-year-period-1-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fotoacademie second year period 1 exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last thursday my class and I had our exam of period 1 in our second year. For me it was a big flashback to <a href=\"\/blog\/fotoacademie-first-year-period-1-exam\/\">period 1 of year 1 at the Fotoacademie<\/a>&#8230; Right down to the tl;dr;&#8230;<br \/>\ntl;dr;: I passed with no extra tasks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1274\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170207_IMG_5718-Fotoacademie-exam.jpg\" alt=\"Fotoacademie year 2 period 1 exam\" width=\"1280\" height=\"638\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fotoacademie second year period 1 exam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Feedback for me remains largely the same. Pointers to take away from this exam:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I am still fairly negative about my photography (and myself in general). It doesn\u2019t help. Be positive.<\/li>\n<li>I reside too much in my head. Need to be more intuitive. \u201cLet it happen.\u201d \u201cSurprise yourself by what you make.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Still not a successful marriage between content and form.<\/li>\n<li>Translation of the concept in the image fairly wonky (related to 3 I think).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Next to \u201cindividuality\u201d I marked doubtful on my self-evaluation. Guido de Heer, our teacher this year, also marked doubtful on his evaluation of me. Maybe a unique personal style depends on developing a more appropriate way of photographing where I \u201clet it happen\u201d rather than conceive every image to death beforehand. Maybe not. Maybe I should learn to translate the concept better? Other great photographers seem to be able to. Not every great photographer is working intuitively. Or is it largely a question of subject?<br \/>\n<em>Sidenote: I think it is important to build a universe, a world, with physics and psychology that is imaginable but not necessarily as we know, and make your art in that world or universe. Trust your instincts about it. That way your work will be unique and consistent. I think Gregory Crewdson has said something along these lines. It rings true to me.<\/em><br \/>\nGuido and I had different markings notably for ability to reflect and develop, I marked demonstrated and Guido marked partly demonstrated (a low mark considering the options imho). Now that I am reflecting on the exam I think Guido was right: why am I hitting my head against the same wall if I have had so many pointers in other directions?<br \/>\n<em>Don\u2019t be afraid to spin out of control.<\/em><br \/>\nMaybe I am going in another direction from here. What if I try to shoot an entire period with only a Mamiya 7 II and an Epson scanner? Or with a small digital camera of some kind?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1272\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170107_IGP0113-Festive-Nynke.jpg\" alt=\"It's my party\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s my party &#8211; photo Joeri van Veen 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What went on during this exam at the Fotoacademie is summed up well by the featured photograph. I need to step up my game, clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-fotoacademie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}