How do you think you did on the lighting assignment? Be honest and specific about the feedback you received. Did you think your positive or negative feedback was deserved? Why or why not?

My photograph of a porcelain doll was a silhouette. I had never thought about it as any more than that, but a few people commented that it also seemed direct, since it was coming from directly behind. I didn’t get a lot of feedback, but people seemed to like the detail they could see, rather than think it wasn’t good because so much detail was visible. This made me happy to hear because I had been particularly worried that too much detail was visible and this might hurt the photo. There was a line in the background I was also worried about, but no one commented on it at all, and I’m beginning to realize maybe it wasn’t that big of a deal. This made me realize that I may have been too hard on myself when looking for all the errors I saw. I think people could have been harder on me, but everyone was kind of quiet. I think my photograph was decent, but not exactly on to evoke emotion or encourage people to have comments on. I believe it may have been a little boring, and it was from a rather straight on view, so I believe it could not have inspired them to say much.

However, I learned a lot from others’ photographs, and I now believe that if I was to repeat my picture, I could take it much better. One photograph, also silhouette, had the light coming in from the side. I think this looked much less boring and also did a good job showing details. I also feel inspired to not use a plain white background anymore, because I saw many backgrounds that were textured or bright colors. A classmate who had an orange background was my favorite photograph of silhouette, making a picture of a dinosaur amusing rather than frightening. I would change a lot about my photo if I could go back, but I think I will take this as a learning experience and really take to heart everything I learned.