Overview of My Personal Work - 21.09.22
As a photographer, I mostly work in impromptu situations and love using film. This is coming from when I have gone to university to study engineering and needed something to do whilst being able to explore outside. But being stuck inside all day and then wanting and needing to go outside put a quick end to my course and I got stuck holding a managerial role in a pizza company before learning that life is too short and moved to Southport with my fiancé and her parents. This was when I discovered that the nearby college was holding a graphics design course, with photography mixed in, and seeing that I recently started doing photography and did graphic design when I was younger, this seemed like a good thing to get stuck into.
As I have said before, most of my work consists of going outside and looking around. I guess it is a mix of fine art, street art and anything that I think is a nice photo for wallpapers. But this type of work (such as "In the day of the life...") will make me think more about the context of the photograph, not just about the shot composition and the type of medium that I work in.
Some of the photos below are some of my favourite photos that I have tried to evaluate myself on and to see where I can improve as a photographer. One of the ways that I know what to improve on is context. Most of my photos do come from a non-contextual point of view and mainly focus on the technical side of things (aka the composition, what type of lens, what type of film etc.).
Without context, most of my work falls apart in my opinion, even though all of them are very compositionally interesting and the subjects included are interesting as well.
Most of my compositions rely heavily on the rules of thirds and making sure that the point of interest is also just a point, as this can lead the viewer into the image naturally, which my mind does a lot when composing an image. This is also more notable in my film photos, as this is the safest technique that I am comfortable with shooting. Another technique that I am really comfortable with is the framing technique, which outlines a point of interest with a shape to lead the viewer to the point of interest. There are other composition techniques that I sometimes use, but these are the compositional techniques that I am comfortable with as a photographer.
Maybe in this unit, I can go and explore more compositional techniques and more post-processing with the use of my digital camera as well. Post-processing can also be done in the dark room, but I have not been taught that and I do not have experience in the darkroom at all, so I really want to start somewhere with that.