Comments from Clive: "the continuity of dark backgrounds, clothing and the lighting make it feel like one session and one approach". Little does he know, Matt only ever wears black T shirts (except for weddings and funerals) so that is something I cannot change, but he does have short hair now so that will help with the variety a bit.
I asked for help to decide which images were worth keeping.
"drop Guinness because although it's an eye catching image and tells us he likes it, it could be a double page spread ad with the Guinness logo inserted in the bottom left corner.
Binoculars is a strong image and with the background black and the outdoor reflected in the glasses you have an indoors looking outdoors metaphor but actually I think it would have improved it to have the face sharp, then the binoculars would become more his eyes, his vision. So on that small point I would drop that one.
Rubberbands does have a slightly different feel to it just from virtue of being in black & white, this and Chair are probably the strongest images of the whole set, they both exude a defiance in the face of restrictions, when set into the whole series, so on that basis I would drop Camera; leaving Rubberbands remaining!"
So now I have reviewed some of the other images I took of Matt over the last month and nothing really jumps out as something I would be happy to submit for this assignment, We will shoot more today and tomorrow and find three photographs to complete the set. I have set my ideas out but am not sure how well I will be able to execute them. Should be interesting.
