Final Reflection

     I believe this is my strongest photo.

I believe this is my photo that needs the most work on.

     In the photo that needs more work, it does not have much contrasts, it's very gray and does not quite fit the prompt given to me. The theme was "up-close and personal," however, I believe I took it too frankly and it seems more like a joke. If I were to reshoot this, I would have just made the frame around Eve's jaw and Karl's neck, having the actual frame up-close and personal. I also would have liked to find better lighting, it was rather cloudy that day, either that or I use photoshop to burn in the darker areas of my models. My background also has a lot of excess and unnecessary things that take away from the my two models. Also, originally, the negative for this photo had my models centered, I only used the enlarger to enlarge it in order for me to make the models off center; so that is another thing I would've liked to fix. The focus in my "best piece" is so much more better than this one.

     I absolutely love my "best photo" because it was focused well, off center, has contrast, and the content captures what I was trying to portray, the idea of fun, simple, and cute. Although one thing that I liked about my "photo that needs more work" that I did not incorporate into this piece was my model management. The Up-Close and Personal photo was very staged, whereas the Fashion Shoot was more candid and not staged at all. Although I like candid and unstaged shots very much, sometimes that isn't always best and having a set plan should be made in advanced. (Are you proud of me for putting that, Mr. G?)

     I do not know what could have been changed for a better learning experience for my style. This is because I liked hands on learning as well as visual learning and this class has provided me with both. I was also allowed to work independently in order to come up with thoughts on my own, if not, then I was forced to look for online resources which, I admit, do help a lot.