I PASSED MY FIRST OFFICIAL CRITIQUE!
I am not going to lie, I was pretty nervous about getting my work critiqued by a professional photographer and thought I wouldn't do very well. Surprisingly, I passed and yet another milestone has been completed in my journey. I will say that I have received a lot of feedback from my teacher/peers during the critique session and my biggest take away from all of it is that I want my photos moving forward to tell a story. I have determined that if I am able to tell a story through my photo, regardless of the interpretation, I have succeeded as a photographer
My wife and my son Cameron enjoying the night out
I find this new outlook on photography very enlightening and I find comfort knowing that I now have some sort of a defined path I want to take. Since I want to tell stories with my photos, I have made a commitment to myself that I would take my camera everywhere I go so that I can catch daily life as it happens. I have also disciplined myself to shoot with one lens a month since I believe that this will help me get to know the limitations of my gear and also help me find new and creative ways of composing photographs. After doing this for a month, I have learned that the lens you put on your camera pretty much dictates the composition you want in your photos. This whole process that I am putting myself through has given me many different framing/compositional ideas and since I run with only one lens at any given time, the side effect is that I don't have to worry about gear - I can just focus on creating the photo with just the gear I have with me.
Bar seems a bit lonely - at least I'm here
Now that I have passed my first ever critique in the Arcanum, my next challenge was to produce (10) new works while taking guidance from the fellow peers and teacher. As mentioned, I want my photos to tell a story to my viewer and I believe that I have successfully accomplished this in the photos you see here.
I hope you enjoy them and will see you next time.
In Step
The feet of my family. Mine excluded and probably for good reason too
KEEP ON KEEPING ON!
Ladies enjoying a cigarette at the end of a long day.
A women standing on the stairs at the train station.
Water drips from the snow melt from the drain. Its the beauty in the little things that we miss in our daily lives.
A bench waiting to be used
My son Cameron in thought. I am not sure what he is thinking about but his expression is timeless
The morning commute - in the snow no less