Second Semester

Second Semester

Well, the first semester of the Commercial Photography course has come and gone and my classmates and I are a good few weeks into the second.

I don't know what I can really say about the first semester. It was a learning experience for certain, though I feel that I didn't actually learn much; except for the darkroom stuff and that was nothing short of amazing.

After the feedback for the assignments though, I feel that I really let myself down. I could have achieved much higher than I did. Though I feel as if I didn't completely comprehend what was expected of me until the last few weeks, I also realise that I didn't push hard enough, internally and externally to find out exactly what was expected.

With that lesson in the bag; however, I feel I know exactly what I have to do this semester and I am going to use the opportunity to really push myself to the limits. Several of the module assignments are stupidly exciting and allow for maximum creativity whilst pushing my existing knowledge and capabilities to their absolute limits. Needless to say, this is exactly what I signed up for.

I will be outlining one of the projects very shortly, but in the meantime, I leave you with an image I had to create for one of the modules in the first semester. The goal was to recreate a still-life from an old master (painter). I chose Van Gogh as a bit of a challenge to myself as I am really not particularly a fan of his work. It was also a bit challenging because I was not the only student to choose this starting image.

Alas, here is my version of Van Gogh's "Boots".