Since the end of year 12 and the start of year 13, my confidence in photography has progressed. I have developed many new skills and learnt a lot about different aspects within photography. At the end of year 12, when we had a workshop with Jonny Briggs and Tanja Deman, I was able to use my skills in manually manipulating an image. We were asked to destory an image in some way, and I was very happy with my result. We were also able to develop our skills on Photoshop.

I used Tanja Deman as inspiration. I was also inpired by Idiris Khan at this point in time. I prefer manipulating an image using photoshop because there is so much more that we can do.

At the beginning of year 13, we learnt a lot about Documentary and Tableaux photography.  I was influenced by the Photographers, Sam Harris and Anna Gasky the most, and I used there ideas to inspire my work. I seemed to enjoy Tableaux photography much more than documentary photography because the creative process of setting up the shoots and coming up with the different concepts wad really good. I also really liked editing the images after the shoot to manipulate them to what I wanted them to look like. I learnt that editing images in certain ways can create a certain atmosphere that can change the interpretation of the image.

My favorite shoot and theme so far was my childhood memory shoot because I was able to be very creative with it by choosing the outfit, the surroundings and the different poses that the model did. I learnt with this shoot that I really like Tableaux photography, and would want to use this concept in my personal study.