Category: Week 13

PB4: An Overall Reflection

An overall reflection on how your media practice has been influenced and/or changed by ideas, exercises and/or experiences in this studio

 

The Use Of Photography studio has a lot of practice during the class time. After 12 weeks’ learning, I thought I learned a lot of from the class. Before this class, I’m a people who always take photos just for recording the beautiful view and daily life. Through this studio, I learned how to express my thought and story through the photos. I learned to think deeply when I took the photos. Also, the quality of the photos is still very important.

The most impressive experiences for me in this class is taking the photos with strangers. We did an exercise in the class which is let us take 20 strangers’ photo under their agreement. That means we should find the strangers and ask them did they mind us to take photos. When I get this exercise I’m super nervous. Because I never did this kind of thing before. I was afraid to ask and afraid to be refused. However, I tried my best in that exercise. It was a very amazing experience. Although, I received a lot of refuse. I still too happy with the people agree to take photos. They all smile happily in the photos. I feel the warm between the strangers. 

And the PB3 need to take a serious photo of a stranger. That is harder than the exercise. Because we need to have a deep conversation with the stranger. And let he give us his story. And then I need to use photos to present this story. My character is a very shy people. I talk with him a lot. Then he turned more open mind to me. The work I was done I feel not bad. Instead of the project, I thought I benefit a lot from the experience of taking strangers’ photos. I tried the things I never tried before. And I found the interests in this. I think if I can I want to this kind of work again.

Also, I learned to get inspiration from other photographers to get more creative ideas for my own work. With the final photobook，the theme I did is based on the PB2’s. And I get more ideas on that. I want to let other see my change from this class. I want to show what I learned and present it on the final work. And people can easily see the difference from the beginning work. I thought I learned a lot in this studio, and I found I really have a great interesting on the photography. I will let my mind for open for the shooting theme in future. And I hope I can do better in future with the daily practice.