Final Word on FMP

Im coming to the end of FMP and I am incredibly proud of the work I have achieved. I was not sure that I would be able to keep myself on track with a project this long but I have successfully managed it. I feel you can tell by every shoot that the images I made were consciously created and I finally feel that things like composition and adjusting to available lighting now is like second nature, there are always artistic decisions to be made and I have tried to experiment with each one during my shoots. My peer critiques were always quiet positive however there were always suggestions of what else I could do to extend my ideas, however I could have kept track of this more successfully.  There are only few things I regret not doing in this project but I don’t feel there is anything that I would have done differently, although at times I probably could have been more organized and definitely more confident I am extremely happy with the end results. I feel that’s the only thing that I have not overcome during this project is my confidence; I am disappointed that I was not able to take more portraits and that is one thing I would like to have changed. It was suggested to me to experiment with some moving image however I did not have the time to do this at the end of the project and although it would have been interesting moving image isn’t something that really excites me, however I wouldn’t mind experimenting with it in future projects.
The aim of the project was to find beauty in the mundane and to compare old to new and I feel I have achieved this and I really feel a sense of pride in what I have created and I hope other people can
see it too weather this be in my work or the public exhibition, this project has also helped me explore the village in ways I did not think possible, but now I see it as a thing of beauty and not just the place in which I live. I have learnt many things from this project including how to respect a place that might at first seem frightening or ugly and how to search for beauty in the mundane and that it really can be found anywhere you search for it.

Final Images

I have decided to completely change my exhibition plan, i did origionally wanted to created a Erik Kessel style exhibition with many different sized and shaped frames however after some suggestion from my tutor i decided to use just two images when i was origionally going to use eight. I feel the new selection looks really sophisticated and I have already had the frames made for them.
I really like the contrast between the tree and the cleaver. Since these images were taken i have done some light post production on both of the images by increasing some of the colours and sharpening the images.
i feel theses images work far better together than my origional plan and i am very excited for the exhibition.

Public Exhibition

After seeing JR's TED speech i was really inspired to create my own public exhibition and thought the butchers would be a brilliant place to put. I Thoroughly enjoyed shooting there and i found a great piece of wall to paste the images to and by just using wall paper paste and four pieces of a3 paper to create one A1 image, i created four and these were my chosen images. Its been a week since i put the public exhibition up and already from the rain and creatures the prints have started to erode however it almost increases the quality of the image, and makes the process more interesting I plan to keep an eye on the exhibition to see what happens to the prints in the following weeks.
In the mean time if you havent seen JR's TED speech check it out.

"Art cant change the world, but it can change the way we see the world"

JR