Oct 2011

A2 Finished

After far too long, I’ve finished assignment 2 - just need to make sure I’m happy with the printing now...

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I’ll put some reflective thoughts on here soon.

+++UPDATE+++
OK, so the working week is over and I have time to breathe again - for a few days at least.

Jose has received the assignment, only I forgot to put the CD in there with the video sequence for change - sorted that by e-mail: I don’t seem to be able to sort myself out at the moment and that’s part of the reason this has taken so long to finish - that and limited opportunities to shoot because it’s generally dark when I’m not in the office... Ahhh, winter - last year when I was doing Night Walks, winter was the ideal time, now it’s not so good.

Whatever, I just thought I’d put some thoughts down on this final set before Jose comes back with his comments, which may influence what I think. Well, this was the hard one to do, and it really would have been simple to go out and just photograph things in a similar way to how it was done in TAoP, but that really wouldn’t be acceptable - hopefully I’ve progressed since then. The way I saw this, which is clearly related to the Night Walks series, is to add a sense of narrative to the images - there’s something happening rather than purely being a poetic/prosaic mediation on lights in the countryside (perhaps the only one with a more defined narrative was the garage). Here something approaches, whilst it is accepted as a car, what it means is left to the viewer - is there something malevolent or something significant about to come in to view? Or is it just a car driving home? Up to you, but there’s a sense of suspense for me, like when someone starts to say something but then stops. The photographs are a bit of a tease. They also deal with (predominantly) orange and blue tones, although one is more blue and green.

My one reservation with these photographs is perhaps, in hindsight, they’re all a little bit “samey”, but then I guess that was my intention.

Comments on the others have been put in here in recent weeks, I won’t bother repeating them again.

Now to wait and hear what Jose thinks...

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Assignment 2

Well, despite my best intentions, I’ve completely failed in capturing my final image in the colour accent series in order to wrap up assignment 2. Because of the nature of the photograph, I only have a limited time frame in which I can capture it, which is basically Saturday or Sunday as the night moves in - to early and I don’t get the deep blues I want, too late and it’s just too dark. And as it keeps on happening, I’m busy with other things - today it almost happened, but not quite.

Anyway, in the meantime I’ve printed everything else up so it’s ready to go, and also written up the majority of the accompanying notes, so it is pretty much just a matter of the final image and then I will finally get this put to bed. For the record, here’s the images from the assignment (again), and I’ll add the final image when I take it...

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