Kristin Rossi
Critique on Final Project topics
3 students
Bernice is focusing on the beauty
of music and musicians in her final project. The photos that she has shown in
class are very noticeably staged and posed. Her first photo of the bunch is my
favorite because of the beauty that it possesses. She has edited the photo to
black and white, which gives it a more emotional feeling and shows the passion
that this woman has about music and singing.
Bernice has mentioned in class that
she is very passionate mainly on the instrumental portion of music and wanted
to make sure that they are the main focus of each photo. I believe that she has
done that well, but I think she can go even further with this project and
really go deep with showing how passionate some people can be about music.
Evan has a series of photos where
he is placed in a variety of places with a map. This project shows that Evan is
trying to find himself, by not physically being lost but mentally being lost.
He is placed in front of basic places such as the post office or a baseball
field, and its ironic because she chooses very modern looking places but yes he
is holding a map, which we all know, is extremely outdated.
Evan can better his photographs by showing
his face and his emotion and or pain that he is feeling while he is trying to
“find himself.” In class we discussed that he does not necessarily need the
map, but I think that the map fits his project and makes it more whimsical and
wacky. Evan is trying to portray a serious tone, but for me I didn’t
necessarily fully get a serious tone from this. That is also something that
Evan can work on for his final project.
Marie has some very beautiful
photographs for her final project that represent nature/ spring/ enjoying the
beautiful surroundings that are given to each person. In her photos she always
has this beautiful pink flower, whether it is in her hand, or it is an entire
tree of them and they always seem to either frame the photo or be the center of
the photograph.
In some of the photographs she has
people in them, one of them is a man relaxing under the tree and another is a
woman painting the beauty of it. I appreciate the photos with people in them
more rather than just the tree itself because to me it shows how the cherry
blossom tree is affecting the people around it. These photos somewhat remind me
of the book “The Giving Tree” where a simple tree affected a boy through out
his whole life. Not that these trees are growing up with the people around them
but they are affecting each person differently but in a good way.
Someone in class mentioned that she
should focus more on the deeper meaning of what a cherry blossom means within
ancient cultures and focus around that, I agree with that notion and I believe
that she could really get some beautiful shots out of it,
