During the class in week 11 we had a consultation in groups, and I received some useful feedbacks from my tutor.

Hannah told me I should use the more abstract photos for my final project instead of the ones clearly showing what object is in the photo.

I have taken quite a lot of photos of everyday objects during task 3 already. There are abstract ones that you can’t tell what is in the photo like this one:

Texture of leather on my wallet

There are also photos clearly showing the whole object like this one:

Texture of leather

Although they are both showing leather but the abstract one definitely looks more artistic and attractive to the audience. I actually strongly agree with Hannah, because I’m also liking the abstract ones more but during the experiments of task 3 I had to take photos of things around me whenever the alarm rings, so sometimes I don’t have my camera with me or I don’t have the resources to make a great photography work. I have also being doing abstract photography for a few years, I love to have my audience wondering what is in my photos, so I will keep trying to make my final project more abstract by noticing the beauty of everyday objects first.

During my task 3 experiments, although I was also focusing on the beauty and texture of everyday object, I was more focusing on noticing an interesting texture instead of noticing the object itself first, then noticing the special things on that particular object. So Hannah suggested me to try reverse my steps of making and find an object first, then notice the beauty on that object to make it into a good photography work. This is actually what I am trying to do in this project. I wrote down a list of everyday objects and sent it to my friends and asked them to notice something special on those objects so I can get some inspirations. The list worked very well and I found some special textures and shapes by looking at those objects first instead of noticing the special things first then realizing they are from the object.

The feedbacks are very helpful and I will keep using this new way of noticing I learned for the other photos I will take in the future.