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My Final Evaluation.

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Diary Week Ten

Week nine - I’ve spent a lot of time working at home and have come to an end point on my project. I only have my bibliography and final evaluation left. I also shot a large final colour image to compliment my black and white images in the style of Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. I think this adds the missing extraordinary to my project.

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Diary Week Nine

Week eight - I’ve mostly finished with my photographs, and a large portion of my written work is completed. I only have around six things left to do, including; annotate contact sheets, analyse shoots, talk about my own work and a bit more primary research.

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Diary Week Eight

Week seven - I have begun thinking about how I will be displaying my final work as well as working on researching more artists. I feel like I’ve fallen behind a little but I am trying to make up for it by working as much as I can at home. I have a checklist of what I need to complete and although its large, I’m working through it well on my own.

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Diary Week Seven

Week six - After spending more time chatting to Harry and Nigel I have found a variation on my original plan for my photographs. I will show the mundanity of growing up nowadays in a series of black and white images. I’ll aim to show people spending their time doing nothing and repeating a zombie like schedule of Sleep, Drink, Sleep, Get stoned. I have also begun analysing contact sheets and making some initial prints in the darkroom.

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Diary Week Six

After the half term - Whilst away I photographed several interesting things but I have unfortunately realised I may not be able to achieve a series as obscene as Ryan McGinleys. I don’t believe its possible as the things he photographed were moments and they weren’t forced and staged as I feel some of mine may come across.

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Diary Week Five

At the end of week five I have finished for half term and have found a bit more direction with my project. Having spoken to Harry he has helped me realise my project needs a more focussed direction. This will be based around Ryan McGinleys, ‘The Kids are Alright’ in which he photographs his friends in a very brash, all on show way. I am aiming to shock as much as I can. My only concern is that I have four and a half weeks and he had about seven years.

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Diary Week Four

At the end of week four I have planned several ideas for things I need to photograph including: drug use, sex, relationships, and clothing. I feel these will give the viewer a good idea of what my project is about as I see those things as the cornerstones of youth culture. The things which shape people the most. I am lucky I have a varied group of friends who I can shoot with and join on nights out to hopefully achieve all these aspects in my images

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Diary - Week three

At the end of week three I have decided to change direction. I can’t do my original idea as my heart isn’t in it. I want to produce work which pleases me to photograph and allows me to fully invest myself. I have decided to document teenage youth culture. I am unsure as to what the ordinary or extraordinary aspects are yet but I feel much more comfortable and confident heading in this direction.

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Diary week two

At the end of week two I have finished analysing photographers who focused on relationship and love, especially with young people. I have looked at Nan Goldins work, Dean Davies, and Martin Parrs ‘guess the pair’ interactive segment of his exhibition. I am feeling a bit unsure about the idea though as it isn’t a subject area I know too well.

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Diary - Week One

At the end of the first week of my FMP I have begun work on my project. I have chosen to do relationships between my friends. The ordinary aspect being how they behave around other people. Less kissing and close contact, and more acting like they’re just friends. The extraordinary being how they behave when they’re alone. I intend to shoot pairs of portraits with couples that I know one showing how they behave when they’re in public, the other showing how different intimate behaviour can be with some people.

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A rough mockup of my final display. The main image in the middle and the black squares representing the smaller images around the outsides of the main one. I couldn’t get the fitting quite right on photoshop but it will be easier to do with prints I can arrange by hand and a tape measure.

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Presenting my work.

As the project is coming close to an end I have been thinking about how I’m going to present my work. I have selected twenty five final black and white photographs and one large colour photograph. I am going to get my images professionally printed from files rather than negatives as I have edited them in Lightroom to adjust the contrast and exposure in some cases so to replicate it in the darkroom would take too long. 

I am going to hang my colour photograph (Printed at A1 or A0) and use my 25 smaller (A5) black and white images as a frame around it so that the viewer can follow all the black and white images around the outside and then finish by stepping back and looking at my main large colour photograph. 

I don’t want my presentation to be overly complicated or involve mixed media aspects as personally, I think photography is about the quality of the images and how they work to compliment one another rather than the way they merge into other aspects of art. I find it a bit gimicky. 

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Final Image No.25: Jonan, Uncle Terry style.

Jonan is a really interesting person to shoot. He smokes like a chimney, has a gruff ‘manc’ accent and most obviously, a massive curly mop. I shot this photo at a party, where I found a white wall and decided to set up a little portrait studio for my FMP. I chose this over the other people I photographed as his eyes really pierce through the image and the fact he isn’t dead centre allows for a more casual feeling in the image. 

Due to using a Point N Shoot I wasn’t able to attain critical focus unfortunately but I needed the flash and didn’t have another camera with one. 

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Final Image No.24: Dylan.

Dylan is a friend of Kitty’s and was recently introduced to my friends but we have known each other for a while. He is the singer in the band, The Printers and I’d shot some portraits for their social medias a while ago. He came along, incredibly drunk to assist with my Last Supper shoot, but he even confessed it was the free beers and spirits that persuaded him fully. He refused to let me photograph him seriously so instead I played along and allowed him to pull a face, I then leant in as close as I could focus and snapped this with my flash direct on his bleached hair and almost bleached looking pale face.

A few marks appeared on this image during scanning but I’ll be cleaning the negative thoroughly before printing it for my final display.

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Final Image No.23: Jayde and her Gin.

Jayde is relatively new to my group of friends. She merged into the squad as Levi’s girlfriend and is now one of my best mates. She never agrees to be photographed but I managed this one shot in a drunken growth of her confidence. I again captured movement in the shot but this time managed to get a closeup. 

If I were to do anything differently it would probably of been to drop the exposure down a stop as I feel the image would of benefitted from more shadow and less loss of detail on her hands.