The man trudged along in the freezing snow, trying to find a warm, amiable place, where he could get inside for a few hours. He walked for what seemed like hours, looking for a place to block out the snow. He came across an eerie, uninhabited office, with hardly anything around, besides a run-down blue car. The sky was turning an fiery red, orange color and as he walked up to this house, he debated whether he should go inside or not. As he opened the door, he caught himself looking at something exceptionally bizarre; the whole room was filled with snow.

I am pretty happy with my project overall, but I feel like there are a few images which could have been executed better. I think my weakest image is definitely the corvette (slide 6) because it is too tightly cropped. I wish I had left it a bit wider so it would have been more open. I think my second-weakest image is the one of Sydney in the mirror (slide 5), simply because the composition is pretty dull and uninteresting. I like the concept and the lighting, but I feel like it does not compliment the image. I think my third-weakest image is the first photo of the star candle. I really like the image but I wish it was a bit clearer.

personal ciritic

I personally wish I could redo my whole entire project. I honestly was not happy with it and wish I had more time to thoroughly plan out my ideas and goals. The pictures I disliked the most where ll, 8, and 5. In 11, the editing was terrible and there is too much noise and it was way to grainy. I should have had a longer exposure. In 8, I don't like the overall composition and it is not a very intriguing picture. In photo 5, it is blurry, the composition is not strong, and I would have liked to change Caroline's cloths

I personally think my two worst photo is one of my light sources. It is on slide number 5. I did it of lights on trees in the middle of a park on historic River Street in Savannah. I purposely made the lights on the trees blurry so the lights would be little dots. I wish I would have made the dots larger and more apparent. It would make the fact that it is a light source photo more apparent. Also it would make the image brighter.

My least favorite photos in my project are the sunglasses one, the stop motion, and the night long exposure that uses car lights. I liked the idea of using sunglasses to reflect the words that I light painted, because it fit in with my idea and sunglasses are used to block out light. I thought these were going to turn out better and was disappointed with the results, but didn't seem to have the ability to fix the fact that they were blurry and couldn't get the whole word "blind" to show up in a single sunglass lens. My stop motion is unclear, and I think it was because I didn't flash the light fast enough during the exposures. It is also hard to make out that the object being dropped in water is a lightbulb, symbolizing the lights being put out. My long exposure from at night could have been much more successful, because it is blurry and unfocused on the subject. You also can't really see the subject anyways, because it is so dark. If I did this photo later at night I could fix it and make it more clear. Over all I feel that I could've made this project better in many ways and hope to do so within the next few days.

Project Critique

I feel like my weakest image is definitely my three times a day (slide 4). Compared with the rest of my project, it doesn't feel as strong. Also, I took it at sunset hoping the light would change dramatically and it didn't. It looks like I took these in a span of three minutes versus an hour. I also wish the hand hands were more centered in my stop-motion so I could have gotten more of the water falling (slide 10). I don't like the noise in the skyline of my long-exposure either (slide 7). I wish my handwriting was better on the last slide...  But overall, I'm really happy with the way my project turned out. :)

I personally believe that my two worst photos were my light paintings.  I think the one of the arrow isn't exactly clear on what its purpose is. I wanted it to convey the direction of moving forward and how things keep going. As stated in my artist statement, my project focused on how everything keeps going when the light goes off. I hoped that the arrow could be a somewhat literal and symbolic portrayal of this however I don't think it came off as intended. This photo was on slide 5. My second least photo was another light painting, and it is the one on slide 8 and says live one. This photo is very literal and clearly shows my idea of the project. Saying this, I don't like how generic and unoriginal it is. I should have tried to be more creative and incorporated more technique. I overall should have tried to be less generic when taking my light painting photos. Overall I am happy with how my project turned out, although there are mistakes I'm pleased with the outcome.

Throughout my light project of music, I had strong and weak photos. Personally, I think my 3 weakest photos are on slides 9, 11, and 12. I think 9 was the most unsuccessful because it honestly had nothing to do with my theme and was done last minute. Also, my 3 times a day photo was weak because there wasn't much of a difference between the 3, even though the were shot 45 minutes a part. Lastly, my last photo was weak because I think there wasn't really a 'story' to my pictures and this image makes it seem like there was.  Overall, I want to reshoot these 3 images because now that I know they didn't turn out as I planned, I have a chance to start fresh with them.

short story

He ran hard. His heart was in his brain. Pounding. Pounding endlessly. He glanced behind his shoulder. The other shadows had dissipated behind him. He looked ahead to the building in front of him. He stopped and so did the rest of the world. As he crossed the threshold a smile ran across his face. Though time had passed and people came and went, it still stood. And there, time stopped as the orange sky was forever captured in an image in peace.

Critique

In my project, my least favorite image is the apple in the tree. The concept behind that image I was trying to portray was a preview to what later happens to Adam and Eve. I have the snake curled around the bottom of the tree but I focused on the apple because when God made the fruit in the trees for Adam and Eve, he did not tell them a snake would pressure them to eat the forbidden fruit. By making the snake barely visible, I was trying to show that Adam and Eve overlooked that there was evil and focused only on the beautiful piece of fruit on the tree. Some people may question what is at the base of the tree, so if I reshot this image I would make the snake a little more visible but overall the photograph turned out the way I imagined it to be. Out of all my photographs, this was the least successful but I still like the concept behind it. The photo of Adam and Even overall was very successful but if I go back and clean up the lines where I cut them out, I think it would be even better.  That is all.

3 least succesful

I think that my three least successful images are 11, 10, and 16. (11 being the least)

slide 11: is a picture that can be interesting, but it is a picture that anyone who know how to use a camera can take. I think i could have added another aspect to fit into my project better. 

slide 10: I wish that the city wasn't running through the girl's stomach. (I just now noticed that). I also wish that the moon was drawn a little better. 

slide 16: This is only in my project because it was required. I like it but again I don't feel like it related as much as it could have to my project. 

What I would Change

In my light project, my weakest image is the night exposure because it is out of focus and very blurry. The second weakest image is the desk scene. Although I was trying to portray a desk scene that would encourage assumptions about the owner's personality, it seems too noisy and a little too cluttered. The third weakest image is the long exposure of the palm trees. Although it came out interestingly transparent (relating to a transparent and multilevel personality) the image is too noisy and pixelated.

Critique for my own project

For my own project, I thought it had high and low points. My least successful photos I thought were on slides 3, 5, and 10. On slide three, it is a bit blurry and my brother's shoulder looks like a butt cheek. I mean this as no joke. If I reshoot it, I'll make him wear a blanket over her pale shoulders.
For 5, I think the exposures are a bit too faded out and it is hard to tell what the picture is supposed to mean. For 10, I was in a rush while shooting and I think it just did not turn out well. It is hard to see what the "fear" (flying/falling) and some of the strings are blurry. I think if I reshoot it, however, I could come out with a pretty successful photo.

Light Project

In my opinion, my weakest image is the image of the boy sitting by the lantern. It's out of focus and not straight. I really like the idea, so I would go back and re-shoot it, probably at a different location. My second weakest image is the selfie. I think the idea reflects my theme, but it isn't that interesting. I might to shoot it again, with more of the subject showing. I think my next weakest image is the multiple exposure image of the girl holding a mirror. I can't decide if I like how faded and ghost-like the other 2 exposures are. I would go back and re-shoot it, trying to make the other 2 exposures more solid looking, and then compare the 2 images.

Overall, I liked the theme of my project and I liked my ideas, but I had trouble executing them due to a lack of time, models, and equipment.  My weakest photo was Slide 9, because it really isn't unique or original.  I also didn't particularly like Slide 5, my three times a day, because they are a little bit out of focus, since I didn't have project for the ones shot later during the day.  Other than that, I am happy with the way my pictures turned out since I was using new, unfamiliar techniques with light.

self critiquing

I would like to redo slide 5, because I don't like the lighting and clarity. I would also redo my three times a day and change the location I place the picture frame in. I also wouldn't mind redoing slide 3 just because I feel like the angle is a little awkward.

Halle's Revisions

I would like to redo my multi-exposure candle and marble picture, slide 6. I like the concept but I feel like if I spent more time on multi-exposing it, the lighting and focus would turn out better. Also, I want to redo my long exposure of my house, slide 10. The lighting is really bright so if I redid it, it would turn out better. I would either change the aperture or turn the lights down in my house, so the house lights would look better in the long exposure. My last one I would like to change is slide 8 because my focus is kind of blurry, but I did that on purpose. I want to make the whole hand in the picture, instead of the top being cropped off.