PB4：Reflection On Photobook Presentation And Panel’s Response

My PB4 Idea （Photobook Presentation）And Reflection：

The photobook will still focus on flowers. Base on the PB2, I will do the work more creative. I will take photos of the flowers in the different situation:

1. Flowers in ice

I will the put the flowers into the water and freeze them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.Burning Flowers

I will spray some oil on the flowers and burn the flowers to shoot.

3. Flowers on cardboard

This picture is my work. This one is quite easy so I did them first. And I will use the different color of cardboards to present.

4. Flowers in natural

This is one is also my work. I will go to the garden again to shoot more flowers.

 

Panel’s Response：

The panel thought I can do all these types of flowers but need to focus on the details of the flowers. They told me flowers’ are hard to take photos. They suggest me think more about how to present the theme through flowers.

“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”

                                                                                    ——— Rabindranath Tagore

The theme of my photobook is Life As Flowers. From this work, I want to present the different stages of flowers which are also present the life circles of the human beings.

The work I did is taking the photos of the different type of flowers which in different stages and in a different situation to present the theme. I use the background boards and the lights to present my theme through different color tones.

The first stage, some flowers are beginning to bloom, it means the new life arrive. At the second stage, some flowers are blossoming, it means the golden age of people’s life. At last stage, some flowers fade, it means the death. Also, i want to use the burning flowers and iced flowers to show the last stage of flowers also. Burning flowers mean the lost. And the iced flowers mean permanent.

Also, the work I want to do is using different color tones and different lights to present my theme. I want to people feel the emotion through my photography, for example, people can feel warm while looking the photos of flower buds and feel the happiness of the new life arrive. And that’s the theme I want to present, I hope people can feel what I want to present.