Evaluation.

To evaluate this project, i did really enjoy making these set ups and taking photos in the studio. I appreciated it when we got to use all the professional equipment and enjoyed the quick results with photography. 

To explore and experiment, I used  a sync lead, product table, hot shoot, snoot light and a soft box. I used different surfaces to shoot of also such as a product table, metal sheets and just white surface.

My research gave me the inspiration to start this project. I heard about  Penelope Umbrico in a lecture and thought the layout of her work would fit great with my money idea. I liked that fact she had used ready-mades but made them her own by the presentation. Instead of completely going off her idea i decided to use my own pictures and use quite a few different layouts and set-ups. 

To present my final pieces i would love them to be presented on a wooden background with aryclic running over the top to frame it and use old rusty bolts to hold it together. I  would like this because that is just how i see them being best presented, I work with different textures and materials and combining them together just makes a project harmonize for me. framing it with acrylic instead of glass makes it more durable and wearable, its not as delicate and doesn't always stay presteen which means it can make its own aging trademarks with time passed, just like money does. 

The context of my work is between photojournalism and editorial. My work does come wits  arise as I've only just found out your not really meant to photograph money and i know the risks but I've don't this work now and i can't change it. A TV program me i would aspire to be on would be channel fours  Dispatches, they talk about risky subjects and document everyday things. My work would also fit in with being descaled in a newspaper article or magazine such as a finance paper or the Art Review magazine. 

The one thing I didn't feel very confident in with this project is that my work didn't really turn out how i would of liked and i had a different vision in my head where they would be all the same kind of photo and then have different way of presenting them, different positions, colours and layout and then all aliened together to make new hole piece. But after doing my photo shoots some of the photos just didn't work together, either because of the size, or because some were portrait and landscape. In the end some of my final photos looked great on their own and so i just choose to keep them as singles.

I wanted this project o be a kind of assemblage of photos but some of the photos I've taken i feel can hold their own and be presented just as one. This is one of the ones i think looks great on it own. i live the ring of light around the bottom of the glass and the way the light has hit the glass and created different blobs of light around the glass. The note in the glass remains crisp and clean and so does the cloth. I love the different shading through the note and how it just disappears in the darkness at the bottom.

This is another one because of the color of the note reflection of the mirrored surface. i love the blurred curve of some of the note. The darkness of the glass frame against the blue and the light piercing throughout the note and magnifying glass. 

I love this picture because the detail in the notes is highlighted and then there are some shadows that dance through the cracks of the notes, the surface of the picture and throughout the light bits in the note. I love how there is a depth of field in the=is picture and like the note is almost coming out of the picture, i love the contrast in the blurred bits and clarity of other parts of the photo. 

This was about experimenting with the raw materials and the light provided to get different atmospheres and looks. To do this i used a sync lead, product table, hot shoot, snoot light and a soft box. 

There was so much fiddling to get certain lights, shows and reflections that we had to try and capture. I still wanted the pictures to look clear throughout all of this experimenting so thats what i had in my mind throughout. 

I love some of the final outcomes and the whole process of this project, I'm not a camera head  but i do like the fact you can get an instant result in a matter of hours. You can also get the process of your work easily. I feel i have for filled my project brief and what i wanted to achieve throughout this project and have some great results that i can start to assemble into my final rice for this project.