Image #1: Triplets

The reviewers thought that this image appeared to be taking away my identity and that it also shows there can be more than one side to a person. This is similar to my original intent, although I did not want to imply to be taking away my identity, but I can see where this idea may come from.

In order to improve my image I should lighten the background more, and also crop closer to the head, so the subject is more centered.

If I was to expand this project, I could take more portraits of people in typical portrait fashion, but block out their face with something that they enjoy doing so much that they may feel it becomes part of their personality.

Image 2: Boredom

The people from class thought that this image was a person who was confused, and was trying to "explore a camera". This is sort of the meaning of this piece, although it was more about boredom than confusion.

Some individuals thought that I should crop the image so that he sat in the middle, although others thought that this position of the subject was a design element that worked well. People also mentioned that his face was very effective.

If I were to expand this into a larger project, I could use a subject as if he is "exploring the camera" by entering the frame in strange ways.

Image 3: Art?

People thought that this image was about waiting, the subject was trying to occupy himself, and that he was not aware of the camera and the photographer was just people watching. It was an image that caught someone at a meaningless moment of their day. This was not at all what I had in mind. Their ideas might have stemmed from the fact that I did not pose the model at all, perhaps if I had posed him in an obviously thoughtful pose, it might be more clear that the photograph was describing something particular about the subject's personality and interest.

The low perspective was working well, however one reviewer said I could maybe push it further by going lower. The contrast between dark and light was good, and there were interesting lines that led to the subject.

If I were to expand this project, I could people watch between classes and take pictures of people who really are just waiting around for the next thing to happen.

Image 4: What?

The only thing that the reviewers thought was that it looked like he couldn't see, and this idea was exaggerated by the fact that in previous images of the subject he had glasses on, and he was not wearing them in this image. In a sense that is what I was going for, I was trying to show someone looking puzzled and uncomfortable.

The expression is working well in this image, as well as the cropping. However I could have played more with the position of the face. For example, the face being upside down, or turned to one side. Also, it should have been sharpened more, and I lost some of the mid-tones during editing or printing.

This image could be made into a larger project that is similar to the one from Image 2, something about exploring a camera.