Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Assignment 4: Social Document Part 2

Image 1: Containers in a Kitchen

The individuals who critiqued this photograph understood that I was trying to convey a feeling of a kitchen. The image could have been strengthened by more images in the series to imply the atmosphere of a kitchen in a stronger way.

If I were to make this into a larger project I could focus on what makes gives different locations their personality and charm, and take pictures of these individual elements to take away the context of the room, but still imply the atmosphere of the space.

Image 2: Hannah

The biggest critique I got about this image was that it was unclear about what the point was supposed to be, and that it was hard to understand what was going on. Apparently the location was hard to understand, and the fact that this image was a snapshot wasn't clear. My choices for the creation of this image were well thought-out and I planned the position and framing with care and really liked this image, so I was frustrated with this critique. Apparently nothing in this image was working well, and the choice of framing and having the figure pose created a lot of pointless ambiguity. I don't think that I would choose to do a larger project related to this.

Image 3 and 4: Facebook Profiling 1 and 2
The text and graphic elements worked well to signal to viewers the point of this image, and it was understood by everyone. One thing that people thought I could do to make it better was to add more extreme poses outside of the profile picture, to add a level of absurdity to the image. If I were to make this into a large series of work I would make a series of profile pictures (and companions) that were really absurd.

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