Evaluation

Still life really hasn’t been a good project for me. To say I struggled is a bit of an understatement. I have never really dived into the realms of still life photography before and if I have it’s been a small area of another project. When given the brief I though ‘ahh this will be easy, how hard can it be’ but yeh guess I was too cocky for my own good. I began with paintings as research what I found plenty to choose from but when it got to more photography based work I really struggled to find artist and photographers from more recent time. I don’t think that there was a lack of them but they all seemed really commercial based and I didn’t really want to go down that route for my work. In the end I felt like this couldn’t be avoided. 

I also really struggled with what to use as props in my shoot. I really don’t have anything of any significance to me and nothing that would be interesting enough to photograph. Once I managed to choose what to photograph I then struggled with composition and how or when I should use something. I don’t know if I just let my brain run away with me but I really think I began to over think it too much and this lead to me not really shooting anything because I was too busy sat there worrying about it rather than getting out and doing it. 

If I was to do this project again I think that I would get in the studio from the get go and not focus on what I'm shooting just get there and shoot whatever I have available. I would also dive deeper into my research and find images that inspire me and give me a creative burst and passion for still life. 

Overall I think that I did the project efficiently but maybe not to the best of my ability. I would also manage my time so much better as I think that a lot got wasted. I would also do a lot more shoots to make sure that i had a wider range of images to choose my final shot out of.