I’ve created a virtual gallery to show how I’d display the outcomes from the ‘Nostalgia’ project.

EVALUATION

MY APPROACH TO IMAGE MAKING:

I captured a combination of photo types; objects, landscapes, and portraits. My approach when making my images was to aim to capture a part of my identity. I did this by creating documentary style images of my family homes in both Madeira and in Jersey. In Madeira, my focus was around things that were familiar to me to show the nostalgic element of what I remember from when I last visited when I was younger. In Jersey, I wanted to capture some portraits of my family which I believe added to my portrayal of myself and identity.

HOW DID I PLAN THIS PROJECT?

As I knew I would be visiting Madeira over the Christmas holiday, I planned on using the opportunity to base the majority of my project on this. I wrote up photoshoot plans in order to help my organise some of the material I wanted to capture.

PHOTOSHOOT AND EDITING:

I planned numerous photoshoots, a combination for both Madeira and Jersey. Upon return to Jersey, I then imported all my images into Adobe Lightroom and began my selection process. Then editing my selected images for outcomes to present in my photobook.

WHAT WENT WELL IN THIS PROJECT?

I’ve created successful outcomes for the project theme ‘Nostalgia’ and created a photobook to display these photographs in a physical form.

WHAT COULD HAVE USED IMPROVEMENT?

To improve this project, I could have captured some more portraits of my family in Madeira. Some more formal portraits where I get them to face the camera could have improved the strength of the portrait aspect of my photographs. Some additional landscape or object photographs in Jersey could have balanced out the book slightly, as I felt it was slightly sparse on that end when organising the photobook.