This first project for me was filled with some confusion, but I feel it transitioned me into college art classes. In high school, there was so much handholding and concrete guidelines like how many images to take, and what subject to photograph. This wasn’t the case with this assignment, and I think it really threw me.
I saw quite the trend in critique comments. I think the most common critique was editing. A common issue that the class shared was a large selection of photos with little cohesion between them. In addition to this, there were also people that had too many photos without a connecting factor. Finally, there were also students that needed to shoot more pictures, and of things that they enjoy taking pictures of.
For me, my images weren’t as strong as they should be compositionally, and I only included three images. In this way, my limited image choice was a hindrance because of how limited my scope became. In truth, I did not take enough pictures. I should have taken pictures of each subject from multiple angles, and maybe even at different times of the day. Because of this, the other, additional pictures I took that also match this theme didn’t feel strong enough to include in the final project. However, I do have a second version of the second photo that I feel is a bit stronger than the one I used in the final project, so I will replace the weaker photo.
