final evaluation

Many of the artists I researched helped influence my work especially when researching Pete Eckert as he influenced my independent shoots for formal elements and Alec Soth for my independent shoots for photo-genres. Pete Eckert's style of using elements of the real world in combination with the light streaks highly influenced my first and second shoot and then allowed me to create my own style with my third shoot. Alec Soth gave me a style to replicate and apply to my portraiture photography. The whole use of long exposure was a new technical skill for me and over the course of the component I have devolved it and researched into it more and more. The use of studio lightening was key in some of my work linking to portraiture and long exposure. Using low and high apertures to create different depths of fields was also new work to me. Developing composite edits was a skill I already had some experience in but I developed it more and more. All of my long exposure photography involved high amounts of experimentation to create final images I was happy with. This can be seen with the progression and eventual final images. I would say that my work is abstract as it is not exactly an actual subject but the light streaks are more a creation. I was most successful with my Long exposure work and least successful with my work with colour.