Interim Evaluation

My research has helped me decide what I like and what I dislike, for example, I really like the photographs by Jim Golden where he takes photographs of a lot of similar objects like locks and keys. I wanted to do something like this, rather than something like much more simple like some of the other photographs I looked at. I really liked his images, but I also liked Andre Kertesz images, where he works with shadows a lot. So I decided that I could combine the two techniques. I tried this out with spoons as I thought that I could try and recreate the image of the fork leaning on the bowl by Kertesz.

This is the photograph that I am referencing, I wanted to create an image similar to this for one of my shoots as I really like how this looks, however I started playing around with the lighting to see how I could change the shadows.

The shadows in this image are a bit warped which is what I wanted in my image, I think that it gives it quite a cool effect that I really like. I also turned it black and white and changed the colours around so that it was a bit darker, as when I took it, the shadows were a bit lighter and not as defined.

From doing these preparatory shoots, I have learnt that I like doing more studio based shoots with preparation, rather than just going out and taking photographs randomly, as usually I will get a better result if I take the time to organise lighting and set up. However, all of my preparatory shoots were taken at home so the lighting isn't perfect, I intend to use the studio for my exam shoots as I think it will improve the final images a lot. 

My aesthetic has also improved in my images, as we can see from my first shoot to my second. In the first shoot, I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to do for all my shoots, however, as I looked at other photographers work in the research log and the photographers research, I had some more ideas, and looking at the photograph by Jim Golden with the locks and keys helped me come up with the idea for my third shoot.

The left is my image inspired by Jim Golden's photography, he uses lots of different types of the same thing, I used screws for my shoot. I really like this image because it has had a lot of care put into it and it took a long time to set up. Like Jim Golden's image must've as well.

In the last three exam shoots, I intend to use the shadows of everyday objects like I have in many of my previous 7 shoots, I think it will work really well as it has so far. It adds another layer to the images, rather than them just being plain photographs. I would like to re-do the screw shoot for the first shoot in the exam, as I think that it would work, I did well on the shoot at home, although I think that in the studio it would probably be even better as I would have a lot more control over the light position.