Let There Be Light Crit

I have to say I am quite gutted with the overall response to our group work from our crit. Having worked so hard and felt that our group all contributed whole heartedly to the final images, it was quite upsetting that the tutors had little to say that was positive. It’s hard to know, however, if I’m just being over sensitive. But I am worried that I came across as being quite overbearing in the presentation as I definitely feel I was being quite fiery in response to the critique.

The main thing that the tutors pulled us up on was the inconsistency in the selected images. But this isn’t something that was accidental; we selected the images we presented for being the best examples of how light was being used in different ways through our exploration of the brief. It’s hard to know how to respond as we could easily have chosen 12 images that followed a more succinct theme but we wanted to show the extent of the skills we had learned throughout the three weeks.

I still really love our final two images, and if I had chosen the final twelve images on my own I probably would have chosen differently, I’ll admit. But I feel like the 12 images we selected were strong examples of how light was being manipulated for the project. There is a real playfulness in the palette of the two photos we used for the final outcome, and the kinetic element incorporated using the slow shutter speed gives them a certain unpredictability. I can see where we could explore the themes in our work in more detail and will consider this when approaching the rest of my solo exploration of the brief.