So, I decided to pitch something akin to street photography after all. I wasn’t necessarily attached to the idea, but it was the one I kept coming back to prior to it.

I think my pitch went pretty well. My idea is doing a street photography shoot of sorts but with a bit of a twist in it being heavily influenced by my observations of when I first moved to Melbourne; particularly those alien parts of the Melburnian subculture that seem to go unquestioned.

My biggest worry is that I will have a difficult time demonstrating some of these in photographical form, but I got some good feedback to address it.

I’m not necessarily sold on the idea being heavily engaging despite the good feedback from the class, but if I am to be honest with myself for a moment, balancing uni with the other parts of my life is already difficult enough as it is, so I doubt I will want to adjust my idea unless it is more streamlined and controlled (like I mentioned in an earlier reflection). 

I definitely enjoyed some of the other presentations. Some of the ideas were quite cool. I used to live in Coburg until quite recently, and Maggie’s planned photo series on it seemed quite fun and interesting and got me thinking about what mine might be missing. I also really enjoyed Jinli’s as a fan of using colour theory, and how she plans on complimenting a lot of it and making a gradual shift. I’ve been trying to mess with colour all semester (for a lot of failures across a few successes), so I liked the whole project’s idea and I definitely want to see how hers turns out.

That being said, both between the presentations and my own conversations with Jinli, I definitely feel like my photography is more based on stimulus of my environments than necessarily hunting them (whereas some people were clearly inspired to be given an excuse to take photos and had a plan in mind even before the assignment), and I wonder if that will affect my inspiration, motivation or end result.