‘The City’ assignment – SELF EVALUATION
For this assignment I produced a series of six photographs presenting household items located in urban environment. Before I started producing my final outcome I researched photographers relevant to a given task. I created new blog which contains my written analysis of my work and others. In addition to this, I produced a sketchbook that includes information about my work and printed photographs that I took. Finally, I edited my final chosen photographs and uploaded them on my blog. This assignment helped me to improve my skills in terms of generating unconventional ideas and accomplishing them in public space. Beside this, I improved my compositional skills and developed my experience in terms of choosing suitable locations for photographing certain objects. I also developed my technical knowledge by using different lenses in different situations to get best perspective in my pictures.
In order to improve my work I would try to take my pictures in better weather conditions (unfortunately it has been difficult to achieve lately) to get a better lighting. Also to improve an overall appearance of my photographs I would interfere in ambient light by using light reflectors, diffusers or additional lighting such as speedlite or softbox.
I really enjoyed walking around the city and taking photographs of things which I took with me. It was very unusual experience for me and I’m sure that I will remember it for long. This assignment was also a good opportunity to improve on my self organization and ability to work under a pressure of time. This was another project which helped me to develop my skills of going through the whole process of implementation of university assignments.
I am quite satisfied with my final outcome and this project was a next step to draw further conclusion and make some progress for next assignments.
Patryk Zarzycki
