A practice shooting in the golden hour...

These images were all taken by myself during a recent walk around my hometown. Instead of "going in all guns blazing" so to speak, with the end result being extremely direct and completely not what I wanted to portray, I decided that I would take a slow walk around the place in which I live, and take my camera with me. I wanted to remind myself of places that hold memories for me and remember the area as it was rather than focusing on the destruction. Change is not always a bad thing, and in the long run the trams will probably benefit the community, it is only now while everything looks so bleak that everyone is feeling angry towards the building work and disruption within the area. So, after taking into account all the influences from my previous research, this is the outcome..

I am actually pleasantly surprised with the results of the shoot, as it feels it is becoming much more personal and definitely heading in the direction I would like. The effects of taking photographs in "The Golden Hour", that is (here) when the sun is beginning to set, (although it could be during sunrise also), have cast beautiful shadows within my images and the neutral tones of pinks, beiges and browns are somewhat interesting, providing a mutual link between each image through it's colour pallet. This is important because when it comes to deciding which images I want to present in the final critique, I want them to look right next to one another, I want there to be something that ties them all together to make it connected and therefore have a stronger impact on my viewer without being too repetitive.

I think there is still an improvement to be made here, but this is possibly the point of my work that has made me really start to believe in my project and my change in direction. I particularly like the landscape photographs because they work well together, and perhaps the photograph of the construction sign is a little like the "odd one out". I believe it denotes the impact that the other photographs have on the viewer, particularly because it has been taken from a different angle. It also seems a little to similar to my previous images that were too direct in showing the destruction within my area, and not entirely based on memory like the others are. I must take this into consideration when I produce my next set of photographs, as I need to begin analyzing how they look as a set rather than individual prints in preparation for my final critique.