I have just received my tutor feedback for the second assignment on seeing like your camera. I was not expecting such positive feedback, mainly because I did not feel that comfortable with the assignment. I think that I felt I lacked knowledge in the area, even though I had been carrying out extra research, and that this would come through in the images I took.
When I had previously worked on The Art of Photography course my then tutor pointed out that I did not always show my workflow as well as I could and that I should try and evaluate myself more. I have really been working on this for the DPP course and feel that I have made a definate improvement.
There are definitely some technical issues that I can still work on but I am getting better and it is all about practice and making mistakes so that we know how we can get better. I could also tweek my compositon and experiment a little before deciding upon my final shot.
My tutor very kindly included some links to others work which I may find interesting as well as a link to provide advice on Lightroom as I have recently bought it but not had time to really get used to using it. I will be making the time to go through all of the links.
It was also mentioned that statues often crop up in my work, so be honest this was not intentional and I had not actually realised myself. I do think that I am drawn to them but I am not entirely sure why, I think that I find looking at them rather calming. My tutor also suggested that I look at the work of Anthony Gormley who I have heard of as he created The Angel of the North, but that is his only piece that I am familiar with. I think that by photographing statues you can get so many different effects just through composition and lighting and that may be one of the reasons I tend to photograph them.
I have already started thinking about the next assignment, I think that as I am progressing through the course I am really starting to enjoy and am getting much better at planning. I hope that with the next assignment I will be able to experiment a bit more and show some of my creativity.
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