I was very pleased with the way that the class responded to my work. I expected a positive response, and that is what I received. In fact, one of my classmates said, “those pictures are so Richard.” This made me smile. Apparently, I have a distinct style that people are starting to recognize. While I was originally apprehensive about using photographs that were so seemingly simple and devoid of color, I think they worked well as a group and gave my viewers the opportunity to concentrate on other elements of the pictures including form, frame, and negative space.
If I were to do something differently, it would be to have a better fifth photograph to use in my set. Not surprisingly, “Switch” came up in discussion of my work quite a lot. This was perhaps the weakest photo of the group and the one that stood out among them. A reshoot of the same wall space would likely have similar results, so I would choose a different object. Additionally, it might have been worthwhile to make some of my photos more gritty. While some of them (taken in this forensic style) proved to make the viewers uneasy, I wish I could have pursued this more in the remaining ones.
