Tutor report Assignment 1

Tutor report Assignment 1 (PDF - follow link)



Tutor Feedback from Assignment 1
Really helpful tutor comments which will enable me to develop my critical writing throughout the course. I now have a starting point on which to build my work.

Good points

• "Strong feeling for viewpoint, light and framing."
• "Thinking seriously about the ideas in part 1- plenty of research and linked the research meaningfully back to your own work."
• "Full of good references, flows very well."

Improve upon / recommendations

• "Start making prints of assignment work now."
• Ambitious work and should make for a visually impressive first assignment
• Qualify statements rather than stating a fact
• Be suggestive (as in an investigative journey) rather than having already arrived at my opinion
• Add factual evidence to notes - date, location and photographic evidence.
• Add a shot of self on location.
• Add counter argument to Burke - e.g include beauty
• Support the association between death and mourning with one or two good references
• Learning log - page no's with dates inside brackets (blog in process of being updated)

I always find the first assignment quite difficult to gauge, especially this time with moving up from HE4 to HE5. However, I am encouraged to revisit my assignment and look at providing a counter argument to Burke and also take an image of myself making the photograph. 

My images conform to landscapes which have been ingrained since the 1800’s as they include diagonals, some foreground, middle and background, trees and hedges, use of thirds, horizon in the upper third, and a moment frozen in time.

"Are your images in the painterly tradition of landscape or are they actually more ‘photographic’? I’m thinking of your movement blur, your perspective distortion, your extreme sharpness. In another way you’re right of course, its one point perspective within the frame." Tutor report (2015) When I was putting my assignment together I was still looking at landscape like paintings were constructed. As the course has progressed, my views on "what is landscape and what makes a landscape photograph" have completely change. I would agree now with my tutor's comments.