Plan

• Continue to photograph Nana
• Take some photographs outside in her garden
• Get some old, archival photographs
• Ask a few more question about my Grandad – prepare for interview next week

Evaluation

I didn’t get as many photographs of my Grandma today as I would have liked because she wasn’t feeling to well. I decided instead to get a few still-life shots of the inside of her house. I also went into her Garden to get a few images which I had already planned. It was a good day today do it because the sun was starting to go down and there was a crsip, yellowly reflection. Photographing outisde at this time of year is very good because as it is autumn all of the leaves have fallen which makes for an interesting looking location that conveys a certain gloomy mood which can only be achieved at autumn and winter.  I took about 60 photos of my Grandma in about 4 different locations with I carefully planned out beforehand. I wanted to consider composition this week as I have explored the work of photographers Alec Soth and Jonas Bendiksen for my exploration of the theme of community and so I have tried to mimic their styles of carefully composed composition, which are quite similar. I want my photographs to be a balance of formal and vernacular photography, a bit like the work of Jullian Germain. Mr Toft showed me from a copy of Germain’s book ‘For every minute of anger you lose 60 seconds of happiness’ a I have gained a lot of inspiration from studying this.

I went around different parts of Nana’s house to get old photographs of my Grandad. I went outside were there was natural lighting and unframed the images, placed then on a table of photographed them. I think that this is a good way to photograph the images because there is a candid, natural look to them and it is a very simplistic and clear way of doing so. I was nice to look at these of old photos as I take never really looked at many photos of my Grandad before. Unfortunately Nana said that my Grandad’s sister had a lot of old family photos of my Grandad and his brothers and sisters growing up. She can’t explain why but apparently she threw them all in the bin. A shame to be honest as it would have been useful and generally interesting to see them

Photos I took today …