Making Changes - Tutorial Feedback
After my group crit/tutorial and presenting my final images to my small group, the feedback I got involved changing a few things, but also finding that I was only a few tweaks away from having a strong collection of images.
I was told there was too strong of a gold presence in the first three images in my previous series, and that the amount of gold would be a good reflection for the narrative, and that it should be minimal at the beginning, grow for the climax and then dissipate again for the end. I agreed with this feedback.
For the fourth image, I was told the door that has the gold leaking from it wasn't reminiscent of an apartment door in Madrid, Spain, and would be stronger if I had the right imagery. I tried it and made a new image, but I'm not happy with this as I had to take the image from Pinterest, and while all other images are strictly my own, I don't like to have someone else's picture stuck in there.
The second picture, the gold was too much as well as the boat not looking very strong amongst it. I struggled with this on the most, as I wanted to show it was the build up to the climax, without taking too much away from it. I made several images to try and see which I liked best.
Finally, for the first image's changes, my group suggested the gold be taken away completely from the image and a matte, flat colour replacing it to show the set-up, involving no gold whatsoever. I liked the idea of this, but as I printed it, found I didn't like how it looked with all the other images.
Overall, I've tried to follow the suggestions by my group but I'm struggling with liking this format more than my previous ones.
My images, after the suggestions by my tutorial group. I changed the fourth picture out as I wasn't sure which one I liked the best.
