‘Fallen’ – the feedback
Another day, another drama. This time it was a fairly serious gas leak, leaving us without heating or hot water on one of the coldest nights of the year. And, as our brand new kettle only worked for a day before deciding to trip all the electrical switches every time it was put on and we’d been using the (gas) hob to heat water on, this involved an urgent outing to buy another kettle and a hot water bottle. Still, it’s all sorted now and I’m nice and cosy writing this. And…..I’m sitting at my desk in my new study. It’s still a bit messy and I don’t have internet up here yet, but it’s a room I can work in.
I wrote here about the difficulty I had in making a final selection of photos for one of my course assignments, and in the middle of all these domestic crises I got my tutor’s report back. It was very favourable on the whole: ‘Assignment 3 has required you to produce a series of landscape pictures with a common theme. I feel that you have succeeded in going beyond that in producing a cohesive sequence, with its own narrative and a life of its own as a set of images’. I’m very happy with that 🙂 He did add that the colour balance in a few of them was a bit on the blue side (nos 1,5 and 6 if you’re interested – counting across and down). Looking at them now I can see what he means, but I remember deliberately trying to bring out the green and blue tones in the bricks and stonework. I still like that effect but perhaps a better way would have been to mask the leaves and adjust the colours separately. He also felt the contrast on the last one was a bit strong, something I’d felt myself but it was a very bright sunny day when I took it, unlike most of the other shots.
As several of you asked me to let you know what my final selection was, I’ve put them above. I ended up removing several that didn’t fit for one reason or another, and adding in three more that I felt worked better.
February 10, 2012 @ 3:47 pm
I love the set you finally produced Gilly – I think they work very well as a group, and I also like the way you have arranged them into pairs of pictures that each speak to the other in different ways. I think the feedback is spot on about your achievement. So glad to hear that your domestic arrangemenst are beginning to settle down, and that you are now in your own study.
Keep warm, and keep creating!
February 10, 2012 @ 6:35 pm
Hi Gilly. I’m sorry for your new home woes and hope they will now be resolved. Didn’t I say moving was a wretch? It always is, but then you get settled and life pitter patters in new directions and turns out for the best.
I’m glad you got such a favorable review for your set-sounds like it was worth it to complete it. I know you struggled over it-and now it’s done! Yay. Sounds like the perfect reason to get that sweet man of yours to take you out for celebratory dinner (with wine). Have a great weekend.
February 12, 2012 @ 9:35 am
I adore your final selection, Gilly. They all seem so very right when put together; as if they were made to be.
Sounds like you are having quite the tough time up north! Fingers crossed things now continue smoothly. x