Conceptual Intentions
How did you address the idea of A Room of One’s Own (place and use of light) with this work? How did you explore your authentic voice as a visual artist? What made this project meaningful for you? If you did not find the practice and process meaningful, why not?
I addressed the idea of a room of ones own using strategic placement of light to emphasize certain aspects of my photographs and through using light to convey feelings and emotions. I explored my own voice as a visual artist through experimenting with different techniques and settling on uses of light that created dark, complex, or interesting moods with simple objects. This project was meaningful to me because it allowed me to learn about taking different types of photos and allowed me to find a general aesthetic that I enjoyed to take photos of. I explored different techniques and settled upon methods that produced photographs that I found both interesting and personal.
Stretch and Explore
In what ways did your intentions change over the course of your project? What opportunities or occurrences led to these changes?
My intentions changed throughout this project as I learned about the different applications and true purposes of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. The new knowledge of these factors really influenced how I thought about taking photos and the introduction to long exposure photography was particularly interesting to me. I could influence what I saw in person and manipulate my camera to make it appear differently in photographs, a process which I found to be very fulfilling.
Given what you know now about your work and your materials choices, how might you have changed your concept or approach to working?
Given what I know now and what I have learned over the course of this project, I would have changed my approach to digital photography. I would have liked to have taken more time to explore with my photographic techniques in interesting locations and experimented a bit more with the same subject in order to discover the most effective techniques for use in different situations. However, I would not change my approach to film photography with this project and I feel satisfied with my selected film photographs.
