For my Home project, I got pictures that purely just reminded me of home.The first two are from my home town. I like them because it shows the nice sides of Bradford and they remind me of the nice things of home, and I like the shallow depth of field in the first one and the colours of the sky in the second one contrasting against the almost black buildings almost have an aesthetic feel to them. The third one is of the Lincoln river from my accommodation window, I took this because where back home we have a canal near by with river boats on and it reminds me of when I was younger. I love living near water mostly because it reminds me of home and there is something peaceful and comfortable about water.  The fourth and fifth pictures are more personal. The fourth one is my Granddad holding my nephew who is also in the fifth picture. The fourth one is one of the first times he held him and the fifth one is where I caught him still. I love these pictures because they are of my family. The last one was something I made up but it goes more along the lines of that when we think of home, some people think of their warms beds, especially when it is cold. But also the toy is something my mum bought me years ago and it’s a little bit of home I can physically carry with me where ever I am.

I think I got quite lucky with these photos apart from the third and fourth photos which on both, the lighting I couldn’t really control. However when ever I think of Home, these are the things I think of and every person has their own interpretation of home.

 

With these portraits I took a risk and used natural lighting however I think using natural light wasn’t that bad. I have never felt comfortable taking portraits and I think it shows in my work and that’s why I think it is not at the best quality I could have done. I think I could have used other lighting and maybe a reflector. If I were to do this again, I think I could have tried to have the same background for all the photo’s.

The route I went down was what the subject was comfortable with. It’s weird that we have become a society where our first thought when we see a camera is to smile and it is what we feel comfortable doing. Some people don’t feel comfortable in front of a camera non stop however they will still smile. I used my own Nikon camera to take these photos and as it still does a good job, I think if I do it again, I would have borrowed a Canon and tried to do them properly but when I first started to take these, I didn’t have much of an idea in mind that’s why I didn’t take a camera out in the first place.