Demonstration of technical and visual skills
From a visual point of view, I feel that the composition is well organised and exposed. The shots were created in a lightbox with a full frame DSLR and a 100mm macro lens, which I felt was the correct tool for the job as one of the most critical points of this image is the depth of field. It needed to be just right, neither no shallow nor too deep.
The images took an afternoon to shoot and a further morning to edit and process in Lightroom – they are not manipulated images Lightroom was used for minor exposure/colour corrections.
Quality of the outcome
Technically I like the image and emotionally it resonates with me, especially the couple in the background, that really reminds me of my parents and reminds me that how I should act with my fiancee it lead to my parents 52 years of marriage.
Will the image resonates with other viewers, I hope so the key to this is to them recognising the diver as the main protagonist. The imagery is simple within the image; sand is the backdrop to reflect the tricky past we walk in life it often easy to walk on but quickly can slow is down and trip us up unexpectedly.
Overall the image works on a personal level for me – it allowed me to address who I am and why I am who I am.
Demonstration of creativity
As I said in the introduction to the image, this a continuation of the most successful piece of work I have produced on this course. I have struggled with the concepts as I am not a natural artist and my distance from other students and art galleries has been very debilitating. I have tried to pull together what I have learned in this one image, and I must have learned something because it was much easier than assignment 2 – photographing the unseen.
Context
This units title “Context and Narrative” tell us what we should be looking for in our photography. We need to search our feeling and our surround at expressing ourselves. I find this very difficult as am a solitary person and very private – building this image is very much outside of my comfort zone as it lets people to my subconscious. I do feel that the image does fit with some of the work we have studied throughout this course. Normally when you see images taken with Ho figures they are done for comic effect I hope that this image is not seen that way but as a legitimate way for a introvert to express their feeling and thoughts.