At this point in the course, I think it appropriate to revisit the early assignments to reflect on them from my position now after completing all the assignments.
I was excited by assignment 1; it seemed to fall into my hands as being something that I like to photograph and that I was a good photographer, and this could show off what I had to offer.
How wrong I was, my tutor on our initial conversation said was about finding something I wanted to illustrate and exploring that theme. This confused me and which left me wondering and procrastinating on what I should shoot – my research into the suggested artists left me more confused.
What should have been a simple assignment led to procrastination, and me putting together a set that was just a nice set of individual images.
What I learnt from my tutor was that there was no consistency to my images in style or theme and if I’m honest I didn’t understand what he meant – even after the post feedback telephone discussion and as I worked on the rework.
For the rework, I concentrated on a re-edit of the images firstly to correct the inconsistent crops and then followed my tutor’s advice of concentrating on an individual theme.
The overpowering theme from the images that I had shot was signage so I followed this line. While I could see a more consistency in the rework, my head or more correctly, my heart conflicted. The original set had faults in the individual images, but I liked them better as a set than the revised set. I wasn’t that I didn’t like the revised set it was my heart conflicting with me.
My Tutor commented that it was much tighter set, and that was pleasing, but I was still a little confused. This confusion did not start to clear until I was shooting assignment 2 and now when I look back, I understand much clearer why the 2nd set was better.