‘Let there be light’ was a photography project set to us, in both groups and on a personal scale.

I had not really done much kind of photography before this, other than taking my own photos for research or for resources for my own drawings and work. This project included a photography induction which I found extremely interesting and useful, the things that were taught were things that I did not know anything about before.

It was also beneficial for me as I learnt all about the different types of photo studies available and the camera equipment available to hire for any future use.

The aim of the project was to begin to understand the impact of light in image generation. As a group, we decided to tackle this by bringing in a variety of objects to work with against the light. As a theme, we decided upon liquids and iridescent materials and between the group some of the objects we had included water, iridescent and shiny paper, different coloured and shiny threads, light bulbs, bubble formation (washing up liquid), amethysts, plastic surfaces. etc

We worked together to produce light sources from different angles and with different effects. We took photos together and also individually, using our own cameras and compiled them all together at the end to view and pick our best images.

I think if I had more experience or knowledge in the field of photography before, then my images maybe could have been more successful, however for a first try I was quite happy with them. It was nice to also work as a group because it bought together lots of ideas and we were very experimental in our approach, where we used lots of different materials we might not usually use. I think to improve, this would just be more camera experience, and to carrying on being brave and experimental.