Final Crit

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its ironic because she chooses very modern looking places but yes he is holding a map, which we all know, is extremely outdated.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,