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Compare and contrast your work to your artist reference and Evaluation and Critique

As seen from my previous blogs, the one artist that I explored was Vanessa Winship who is the artist I want to compare her work with mine and who’s work that inspired me to produce my own type of work from her work.

Her work is raw. It’s close up, showing the flaws and beauties of a being. Her concept made me inspired so I decided that I wanted to show that rawness in my pictures like she did. Some of her pictures aren’t as close up which I admired because of how she was able to capture the background whilst capturing her subject as a whole.

In colour wise, my picture imitate her’s. I edited my pictures so that they were black and white just like most of her work. I think that the fact that her work is in black and white creates this dramatic effect. However her work has tendencies of showing what the real life looks like, my work wasn’t based off that. In my work i wanted to somehow show that reflection of the past. By using a subject who is a child, i was able to reflect that child figure that people have within them without realising. Showing a child in a park really reflects how things have changed and how missing being a child who went to the park constantly with no worries in the world is very real.

Photographing a subject in a hair salon was with intention of showing an appreciation towards people who work in a salon/hairdressers. I believe that Vanessas Winship’s work shows this sense of under appreciation towards human beings and how unique every single one of them are. As someone who’s mum is a hairdresser, it’s frustrating seeing how under appreciated hairdressers are. How hard working they are and how they aren’t just hairdressers, they are friends and someone who listens to their clients. They give their all and all they get are unrealistic expectation’s. Photographing a hairdresser proudly representing her work shows how genuinely unique and hardworking hairdressers are. I wanted bring awareness to peoples work, especially hairdressers.

Furthermore, I think my work really shows the inspiration that I had from Winship’s work through the use of the subject and the environment they are surrounded by just like Vanessa did. Winship shows the environment that the subject is surrounded by but doesn’t make the environment the main sight. In all her work it is evident that she wanted the subject to be the main attraction and that’s what I did with my work. As seen in my three photos at the start of the blog, the environment surrounding the subject is evident but the main ‘deal’ is the subject. I really liked how Winship did that and I think that I will use that in future projects.

When it comes to my work in general, I think that I did good, of course it can have some improvements but overall my final outcomes were good. One success I had with my final outcomes was how evident the environment related to the subject. For an example, the first picture above where the child is on the slide, I think that it is very clear where the child is and what they are doing. I think that it perfectly represents a child. She is smiling like a child would be in a park and although it isn’t as formal as environmental pictures should be I think that the fact that she’s smiling shows how real the picture is.

Another strength I had with my final outcomes was how still the pictures were. In the three picture above, none of them have blurred parts from movement which is exactly what environmental picture should be like. They shouldn’t show any type of movement. So when it comes to cancelling any type of movement in my pictures, I think I managed to do that.

However a weakness I had within my final outcomes was how in one or two pictures, I felt like the pictures weren’t as focused as they should be. This isn’t good as it doesn’t show this sense of professionality that it should show. This could have been improved by changing the focal lens so that the picture would come out more clear or coming closer to the subject.