Danny Treacy review.

After the talk from Danny, we were able to show our work that we had done for our Final Major Project in small groups. I told him what I had been doing and showed him an arrangement of images that I had taken to show him my experiments so that he could see a variety of my work from this project. He gave me a lot of great feedback and other people within the group also gave some input, and I wrote these down as notes:

Lee Friedlander.
The mixture of colours within the images work.
Spaces feel different.
Want to see yourself.
More going on in mirror images - more life in them.
Distortion is in the way - double barrier.
Satisfaction with mirror images.
Portrait is a study - fragmented portrait.
Use different shape mirror? Long mirror, broken mirror, the model's own mirror.
Mirrors are metaphors.
Open to change.
Context of person - why using them?
Composition works - still life, e-commerce, catalogue, classic.
Like a pizza - certain ingredients needed.
Combine all things that work into one image.
"Flagging".
Subtlety of tones.
Pick out successful parts/elements.

The main thing I took away from this chat with Danny was to keep experimenting, but only with things that work well. I have to use my time wisely and create images that work well for this project - think of a title for this project as this might help evolve and shape the work.

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