Assignment 2 – Collecting (re-worked)

Collecting – Behind Glass

Follow the links below to see the original assignment submission and my tutor’s feedback:

My original response to Clive’s feedback was a feeling a disappointment.  He thought the overall concept was good, but pointed out that my original title of ‘point of connection’ was actually wrong in as much as I was in fact viewing the subjects without their awareness so it was voyeurism rather than a connection.  He also felt that some of the images didn’t quite embody the concept.

Although I meant to rework this at the time, I have actually only come back to it at the end of the course.  What this is has meant, is that I have come back to it with fresh eyes and the increased knowledge that working through the course work has given me.  The different time of year and lighter evenings has also given me an opportunity to explore different lighting and given the work greater depth.

I reread the feedback, picking out the comments Clive made about the images he felt did work and also took on board the editing suggestions he had made.  In the end I have discarded all but three of the original images.  One thing i learned from Assignment 5, was that when you refine and refocus your objective you find that work you originally overlooked actually fulfills the brief better. Having redefined the concept to the idea of ‘heads’ behind glass, I reviewed my images and found a few more  in my archives that fitted this brief and I also shot some new images which I feel gave another dimension to those that were mostly shot in the winter time.

My learning from reworking this assignment is that:

  • redefining and refocusing your thoughts about the set really helps you hone in on the best images to enhance your vision
  • that printing them out and moving them around really helps with positioning the images in the set
  • that I am much more observant of everything in a frame and I think this has helped in my composition.
  • that actually feedback is good for challenging you and making you look again, which ultimately has resulted in a more satisfying set of images.