Coursework 2

EVALUATION My task was to choose a concept and idea and develop it creating a question, initial set of images and development. Before deciding what my initial idea was going to be a researched a variety of ideas , each giving me a basis on where to begin with my work, and the type of photographs I would be taking. At first I decided my main idea was going to be ‘’Child photography.’’ My plan was to take fashionable shots of children and edit them to look aged. My question for this idea was going to be ‘’Can I as a photographer take modern day photographs of children and make them look like they were taken from another era?’’ I ended up taking photographs for that idea but later decided that It was best I changed my idea as I was not satisfied with the value of my work. The new idea I decided to portray instead was ‘Can I as a photographer portray love and pain in the same photograph?’ For this idea I initially took over 100 photographs which I ended up cutting down. The first set of photographs I took were in the white studio. The majority of the photographs I used where in black and white. I used flash to create the lighting for these photographs. I took a different approach to my idea with my first set of photographs, I ensured my model was completely white from head to toe. This created a simplistic yet unique approach to my photographs and also created a contrast between the coloured props my model used, making them stand still. In one of my photographs for the set, my model is holding some roses, yet has a straight/saddened look on her face. Her facial expression and the prop used answers the question my project is asking, (displaying love and pain).

In my developed photographs I used layers on Photoshop to create a colourful mask.

The visual impact my photographs have on the viewers are quite sad on most, yet confused on others, sad on the images that my model appears to have previously crying an confused on the photographs where the viewer is possibly questioning what is going on in the photograph. I do believe that my photographs reach the level of symbolism needed, however, the photographs