Feedback
In this feedback session with my tutor Simon we discussed all the images I had taken to day. This included the photos from the first two room (shoots 1-4) I explained that I was thinking about shooting some of my course mates for this project, and was attracted to the idea of capturing people in a very transient stage of their lives in the last few months of their degrees, and the first few months of their new lives, beyond university. However, when I showed the image to Simon he picked out a set of images that I hadn’t considered putting together, and suggested that he liked the narrative of the images all coming from a single household.
Image selected for a potential Triptych by my tutor
The images that he selected for this Triptych challenged my notion of what a set of images should look like
Especially as on of the images was in black and white. Mixing colour imagery with black and white imagery is not something that I would usually consider.
The three images together as a Triptych.
It was when I suggested that this was not three images that I would put together that Simon explained that he saw a narrative that worked around a single household. I felt that the tones across the images made them jarring against each other, but Simon seemed unconcerned by this as the narrative was strong. I am entirely happy to have my ideas challenged here, if feels a little bit of a relief to be free of how i presumed a set of images should look, and agree that the narrative hold the set together rather than aesthetic.
We agreed that to move forward, I would continue to shoot as much as possible, and that I would also work toward improving the quality of the projection. I would also try to shoot a broad range of images form each room/shoot. This would give me more options to select my final images from, and hopefully continue to surprise me with the resulting images. I would work through a variety of ISO’s and f-stops, and would shoot both with and without sitters, to try and capture some interesting detail shots.