Self Evaluation
Exploring Photo Practice- Francesca Woodman
When completing the module exploring photo practice I have learnt to appreciate other photographers work more. At the beginning of the module we all got to pick a photographer out of a box that was on a folded piece of paper. The photographer I got was Francesca Woodman, I had never heard of her before so was interested to research more about her and her work. To begin with I didn't like her work and it took me a while to start to understand her work.
On this assignment I learnt more about using slow shutter speed settings on my camera. This was a very important part of my work and I hadn't really used it for a full project before just the odd photo experimenting so I was happy with how I learnt that and feel that you could tell that I had achieved this in my work.
I also gained knowledge of a new photographer and doing this project really helped me in researching and looking more into images to find what I can take from them to put into my own images. After researching this photographer for a few weeks I started to like her images more and understand them more than I did at the beginning.
When I started to take my own images in the style of Francesca Woodman's I decided that I didn't want to copy her work so it was exactly the same but take things from how which I thought was appropriate. While having this idea the thing I decided to take from her images was the way in which in some of her images her or her face is blurred. I also decided to take my images in a rural setting instead of urban, but within my setting I had parts of old fence and wire which added an urban effect to my images.
In Francesca Woodman's images the subject within all her images is herself so in my I used myself as the subject and put my camera on self timer. I think that most of my images worked really well and that I captured what I needed and wanted to within my images as a good response to Francesca Woodman.
I feel that I have gained a lot from this assignment. I now understand how to research photographers and appreciate them more. I have also learnt how to use my camera and create pictures with slow shutter speeds. I think the researching part will help me a lot more on my next assignments. It has also helped me gain confidence being in front and behind the camera.
Exploring Photo Practice- Francesca Woodman
When completing the module exploring photo practice I have learnt to appreciate other photographers work more. At the beginning of the module we all got to pick a photographer out of a box that was on a folded piece of paper. The photographer I got was Francesca Woodman, I had never heard of her before so was interested to research more about her and her work. To begin with I didn't like her work and it took me a while to start to understand her work.
On this assignment I learnt more about using slow shutter speed settings on my camera. This was a very important part of my work and I hadn't really used it for a full project before just the odd photo experimenting so I was happy with how I learnt that and feel that you could tell that I had achieved this in my work.
I also gained knowledge of a new photographer and doing this project really helped me in researching and looking more into images to find what I can take from them to put into my own images. After researching this photographer for a few weeks I started to like her images more and understand them more than I did at the beginning.
When I started to take my own images in the style of Francesca Woodman's I decided that I didn't want to copy her work so it was exactly the same but take things from how which I thought was appropriate. While having this idea the thing I decided to take from her images was the way in which in some of her images her or her face is blurred. I also decided to take my images in a rural setting instead of urban, but within my setting I had parts of old fence and wire which added an urban effect to my images.
In Francesca Woodman's images the subject within all her images is herself so in my I used myself as the subject and put my camera on self timer. I think that most of my images worked really well and that I captured what I needed and wanted to within my images as a good response to Francesca Woodman.
I feel that I have gained a lot from this assignment. I now understand how to research photographers and appreciate them more. I have also learnt how to use my camera and create pictures with slow shutter speeds. I think the researching part will help me a lot more on my next assignments. It has also helped me gain confidence being in front and behind the camera.
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