Assignment 3 - Feedback.

This is the first feedback for an assignment that I have received and been pleased with. Normally I tend to take comments and constructive criticism personally and then become disheartened thinking that I am not good enough.

This time I have been much happier with the images I have produced, mainly as I moulded the assignment and as my tutor said “took the step past photographing things to fit the brief to photographing your own ideas to illustrate it”. I must continue to do this. I was worried that as this assignment was more personal to me, I would also take any points made pore personally also. However, this was not the case. I knew some of the images had issues, mainly lighting wise, but I have also treated the assignment as a learning process, rather than the be all and end all. I also worry how the end result will appear, rather than experimenting and looking at my creative process. I need to be more willing to try out new ideas and maybe I will be pleasantly surprised with the result.

A major issue now is my naming system. My tutor mentioned this after the first assignment, and I couldn’t really see how it was a problem at the time, but now I am starting to. I think this is something I am going to have to ask advice about as my filing system needs considerable work.

More detail is needed when talking about my photos. I think that I always talk about the technical issues as I still do not feel as confident selecting settings. I think that I expect to be told I have done it all wrong. Having said that I do think that I have improved as before I would take a photo and think that it was fine where as now I can sometimes see where I have gone wrong and how to rectify the issue.

I need to sort out the lighting in quite a few of the photos and I feel that a lot of research will be required, particularly as I am not familiar with some of the equipment used to achieve desired affects.

To improve I will read up on the technical balance of light theory and the use of both natural and artificial light and how to combine them.

I really did enjoy this assignment, and I am glad that came across. I feel I have started to make a break through with the work I produce and I shall try must best to keep it up.