When I started this project I wanted to make it something I could get excited about. I've done a couple of things for clients before through the Massey events team, which is a great opportunity, and I find that a lot of the work is just point and shoot, there's not development, it is about taking photos quickly and well and getting them back to the client. Which is certainly a skill, and an area I'd like to improve in, but for this assignment I wanted something that I could take beyond that, and I wanted an outcome that I would be happy with as a series outside of the context of the commission.
Rather a lot of stuff has gone wrong along the way, and there have been times when I wished I had taken on a client in a field that I'm not later hoping to go into. Now that it's over I'm glad I set myself a proper challenge and really invested myself in it.
Now that the scanner isn't shutting down on me and the printers are back up and running and I'm ready to hand some things in (to class, if not to my clients, who will have to wait another week or so while I finish all of the dust and scratch fixing) I am so happy!
My least favourite room was by far the master bedroom, I'm not happy with any of my photos from there. But I'm okay with it because every other room has at least two photos that I'm really proud of. Also this project has made me fall in love with the RBs.
I meant to do something of a critique of myself here.....
I had a really clear view of how I wanted to do this from the moment my client gave me their brief. I wanted to use medium format, wide angle, natural light and I wanted to have a mixture of details and longer shots. I pretty much decided on that, did a couple of digital shoots to survey and then just started. I'm infinitely glad that my decisions paid off because executing them took a lot of time and faffing around with deciding how I was going to do it would have been a nightmare.
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