002 - Initial Planning and Research
How can I photograph the INVISIBLE?
- Document my physical & mental health
- Seeing the world in color and black & white – comparing the difference
- Street portraits
- Signs (Disabled Bays)
- Same above but with flowers
- Look at other practitioners
- Look at the behind the scenes that wouldn't be seen outside
- Document everything day to day
- Journaling
Shoot 03 - 19, Contact Sheets & Evaluation
Shoots 1 - 13 Lecture Feedback - 28th March 2022
- Good use of self-portraits and studio pictures (light box)
- Add some shadows and depth the lightbox images
- Like how personal it is
- To show up the swelling in your hands use hard lighting not soft to really expose the problem
- Start looking at crops and other edits and then continue shooting.
- Good mixture of self-portraiture and still images
- Good angles and overhead image
- Shoot in the studio? No because I want them as real as they can
- Pink background works well and the black one does, but a blue might match the cooler tones.
- Could take the vibrance out of the tablet boxes and pink backgrounds so they aren't so in your face and disruptive.
- Keep shooting and have confidence
- Cut down your edit to spot the really good ones.
- Andy thought this was going to be a really difficult project initially but he liked that I have listened to what I have been told and gone away and done it and experimented - encouraging response
- Have to have continuity - only have one type of media
- Great shots
- Jenny Saville - focuses on her own body, painting but through photography
- John Coplans
- Strong images are present.
- Crop in on different parts of your face.
- Make it less like Instagram and more like what you would want to see in a book.
- Use the more abstract images and the subtle ones.
- Use the body pictures.
- Make sure images don't have too much clutter in them so that the clutter isn't distracting.
- Use a spirit level to balance the camera.
Nicola Shipley Feedback - GRAIN Projects
- Everything is very personal to you at home rather than a sanitized studio space.
- Interesting images, you have some really good stuff here.
- I like the image of just the tablets but you only need one or two of them in an edit.
- I like the image of the multiple tablet containers because it just says so much about the condition of what you are dealing with an what people probably don't understand.
- Do what you can to show the mass of those tablets boxes and make it interesting, how can you show them, if you've got 28 or 30 of them how do you photograph that..?
- The ones with the black marks on your face are really interesting and I can see why those marks are there, they almost represent a scar and represent what a surgeon makes before they cut someone open. Keep playing with these, I prefer the dashes the other look a bit comical almost like you are a pirate which you don't really want in there. The other marks are more serious.
- Where you are directly looking at the camera is really interesting and the ones where you've used make up to look like you've almost been beaten up, they are really interesting as well.
- Do continue to work with your physio because they are really brave and really telling about the treatment you are having to have to help you manage pain and its okay that your physio is taking them because you are directing and composing that shot.
- Keep shooting in ways that will represent your story.
- COVID test kits are getting bring now so I wouldn't use those because they are so seen at the moment.
- The pink you have chosen at the back of your tablets is an interesting medical shade of pink and flesh tones that go with your body. Keep a palette in mind.
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