My thoughts on the feedback
Overall quite happy with the feedback from tutor. Not all images holds high quality, and Roy points them out. That makes me feel certain that my tutor will use time to analyze my assignments properly. That will hopefully make me struggle to progress
Tutors feedback
Overall quite happy with the feedback from tutor. Not all images holds high quality, and Roy points them out. That makes me feel certain that my tutor will use time to analyze my assignments properly. That will hopefully make me struggle to progress
Tutors feedback
Overall Comments
This is a good start to the course
with a comprehensive set of images that clearly meet the criteria in the
assignment.
You have submitted 12 prints and a
blog which is straightforward, well presented and straightforward to navigate.
Your prints are very well made.
There is detail in the shadow areas as well as the highlights and you have
successfully avoided clipping the exposures in the highlight areas. Both the
colour and black and white prints show an awareness of contrast control and
levels with a very well balanced tonal range running through all of them.
Whilst I do appreciate that we are not assessing you on your printing for this
assignment, you appear to have a good grip of the technical considerations of
printing techniques and printing profiles. Well done.
Some concepts work better than
others – generally I have looked at the images first without seeing the titles
so that I have to guess the concept. Have you shown this work to other people
to get them to do the same? It is always worth showing your work to someone who
will give you honest feedback so you can get some insight into how well you are
communicating your ideas.
Feedback on assignment
Transparent and opaque:
Excellent use of lighting to
illustrate a straightforward concept.
Sweet and sour:
Not as successful as the above
image in that it does not convey the idea of sweet and sour. Would it have been
better to use a more obvious example of the sweet perhaps? Sugar is the most
obvious example but you could have experimented with peoples faces or
situations to communicate this more effectively. Also you do not explain why
you have lowered the colour tone in these images – would it have been more
successful to have used the colours more effectively?
Rough and smooth
Works well as an idea and fairly
straightforward to read. Would it have been better to not have shadows on the
‘smooth’ image?
Straight and curved
Less successful as a concept as
the ‘curved’ image is more about graffiti – it would have been worth exploring
curvature in architecture.
Many and few
A good use of colour but as a
concept the ‘many’ probably needs more pencils to carry the message.
Heavy and light
Excellent control of lighting
with a clear message. Possibly needs a very small increase in contrast to
strengthen the images.
Light and dark
Work well as a pair. To improve
them you could use extra lighting for the ‘high key’ image behind the boy. This
would light the backdrop separately to uplift the image. (I can explain the
lighting set up if would like me to).
Still and moving
Works fairly well as a pair –
perhaps it could be improved by seeing car as a blur in the moving image. Good
use of lighting on the car but you would need to see how you can control the
highlight on the front side.
Firefighter
Good use of depth of field and
contrast control. Well done. I like the way the focus is controlled on the man’s
hand. As an photograph that demonstrates contrast in one image this works very
well.
Learning logs/critical essays
Generally a good start. Your
description and comments need to be slightly more comprehensive. Try to include
exactly how you would improve each image. I will email you a document that
lists the details that you need to include in an evaluation.
