Assignment 1

I have received my feedback from my first assignment and my tutor has given me some suggestions for enhancing my workflow going forward.  I think as I have up until now not had a very structured workflow this is something I will work on and develop as I continue to shoot. I suppose it will be very much a work in progress.  I am new to much of the software I have now and as I continue to find my way around it I am sure that I will find ways of working with it that are better for me.

I have learnt quite a bit from this assignment and first part of the course.  In my normal working life I am a very structure and methodical person.  This is something that I haven't brought much to my photography or should I say to the same level as I have in my daily work.  The reasons for this probably stem from the fact that a lot of my shoots are unplanned, street photography, travel photography and some landscape work.

Some of the additions I will include in my next assignment/shoot include:

• Writing down what I want to achieve on the shoot
• Think about recording why and how I am going to shoot 
• Researching what I am going to photograph - has it been captured before?  
• What photographic approach will I adopt?
• Outcomes.  What will they be?  Where will my images end up? 

I need to look also at explaining how I took the images or how I plan to take them more at the planning stages  of shoot.

I will also look at bracketing my exposures.  When I next have to alter the ISO due to shooting indoors or low light, I will look at shooting at differing ISOs.

I need to add some more structure to the preparation of the shoot and can do this by outlining the various aspects of it under the following headings:

• Research
• Time
• Photographic approach
• Logistics
• Shot list
• Specific ideas
• Abstract ideas
• Wider themes

These are the images I submitted

The Tower

The Rose Window

The hands of the Augustinian

The Swan

Jesse

The Arches

The Aisle

Bouquet