Evaluation

The end of my first blog and all things considered (me being a technophobe, not liking things I do to be public knowledge etc) I will deem it a sucess!

It has forced me to work in a different manner to my usual form which is to keep everything I do, notes, research, images and working practice and then put it in the journal together. Should I have admitted that? Anyway through this manner I have posted everything within a day or so (depending on editing) of producing images. I have tried not to waffle on too much, and make it a bit of an interesting read!

I have produced a wide variety of images, from both film and digital technology and hopefully have incorporated a cross-section of portraits, as befits the brief. Having said that, looking at my final selection there appears to be a greater number of close-up portraits and indeed numerous self-portraits. But I suppose it shows continuity! Also the excessive number of self-portraits are, as explained earlier due to the fact that I am a willing candidate to practice lighting on.

The main thing this brief has brought home is the importance of planning when shooting people, especially where the Leeds shoot was concerned, if we had not had the first day to plan I feel our success rate would have dropped dramatically. Where I may have failed in the blog is not posting all my research and editing practice, I felt this was unneccessary as much of it can be found in my 'Systems and Processes' file.

To finish on a high, I feel I have been prolific in my work, my editing skills have improved, both digitally and in the darkroom, even in the short period from the last brief of 'Objects', and I have thouroughly enjoyed the brief.