Hello everyone. Today I’d like to talk a bit about posting on this blog, or rather my lack of it. Over the past couple of months everyone on this planet has been hit with monumental shocks and disturbances. The pandemic has altered how we see and interact with the world. Including how we interact with other people. One of the ways that it hasn’t affected me is that I’ve been one of the lucky few […]
thoughts on posting Read More »
The following is an attempt at putting my evolving photographic philosophy into a coherent body of sentences. I tend to get frustrated with every artist statement I write a few months after making it, but this one is an amalgamation of multiple attempts at trying to put my disparate ideas on image making into one statement, so I think it’ll be good enough to last a few years. We’ll see how long it lasts. 🙂
Jeremy Brake 2021 Artist Statement Read More »
As photographers how do we Find our subject? There are thousands of things in the world to take photos of, why choose one? I think it’s important to understand that this is something that you need to use your own intuition for. This post is just my experience and you can take what you want from it. Look For Joy! Think about what brings you the most joy. If you have a camera with you
Fundamentals of Photography pt. 2 Finding Your Subject Read More »
Hello everyone. Today I wanted to share my photos from my recent trip to Cape Breton island. Last week me and my parents went on a family vacation to Cape Breton island here in Nova Scotia. Due to covid we had the creative constraint of staying within the maritime bubble. Honestly here in the Maritimes we’re extremely lucky that we have so few covid cases. My parents wanted to be in Toronto, but nobody’s willingly
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Light and composition. These are the building blocks of photography. What is photography? Photography is painting with light. In order to understand how to make photographs we need to understand light. We don’t need to understand exactly how a photon works or anything like that. But we do need to understand the different ways in which light can be altered, and effect our photos. Light First there’s light. There are four main aspects of light
Fundamentals of Photography pt. 1 Light & Composition Read More »
