Decisions.

   I come to a point in this course where some key decisions need to be made about what I do next. What I'm confronted with is 4 themes each containing 2 projects, from these i need to choose 3 projects to undertake which will make up my second assignment the question is which to do?
   In the first theme Projects in Colour or Black and White the two projects are Colour Accents and Experiments in Key, now Accents I've already covered a number of times in other course so straight away I feel this isn't an option because I can't see myself learning anything new covering old ground that I feel I'm already pretty versed in but then on the other hand Experiments in Key is something completely new and bares a further look. The project seems to be based around the use of black and white with lighting and exposure techniques thrown in, straight away this grabs my interest for one reason I've started to consider doing my major project completely in black and white as it isn't a style that I've ever used alot before so this project clearly will give me some much need practise. One down two to go.
   The next theme is Photography As Documentation with the two projects within call A Persuasive Document and An Impartial View. What these two projects seem to by asking is for you to produce a photo essay first in Persuasive on a subject that you have a strong personal opinion and view on and in Impartial you take a subject  and by as objective as possible on it. I think both of these could be really good to attempt but I'm not really sure there my kind of thing, I sat for quiet a while considering the kind of subject that I would or could if possible cover for either of these projects and found that I really couldn't come up with many at all and the ones that I did I didn't feel I had enough conviction in to mount any kind of project work behind so at this point I'm going to avoid this pair and hope for something more in my line in the following sections.
   The third theme finds us looking at Depth and Perspective with the first project being called Clear Separation where you asked to produce images which have separation between foreground and background but still have some graphical relationship and in the second part produce images where you have foreground, middle ground and background in one image. The second project in this section Eliminating Depth Clues asks you to produce images with a flatten effect produced by using long focal lengths. Both these projects i could see myself doing because they'd give me the chance to work in one of my favourite types of photography landscapes, its one of the main reasons I first took up photography because I wanted to capture the great outdoors how I see it and if I could impress this view on others more the better. In the end I've decided that Clear Separation is by far the more interesting of the two and offers far more possibilities to me creatively. Two down on to go.
   The final theme is Gesture and Expression with the first project being called The Decisive Moment, this pretty much is self explanatory in that you need to capture a scene and then choose which image is the decisive moment in the collection explaining why you made this chose. The second project is called Change, in this case you have to choose a subject and then capture change over a period of time. Of all the project for this assignment i think these two are probably the most intreging to me because there a little different from anything that I'd normally do. I'm leaning towards Change but I can also see the possibilities with the other project so I think for now I'll leave the final decision until i reach this point in my work.
   What I've tried to do here is select three projects that have some relationship to what kind of photography i already enjoy undertaking but at the same time things that will stretch my ability and expand my work to. I was a little apprehensive of this section to begin with but know I'm really quiet looking forward to it and can't wait to get started.