Demonstration of Technical and Visual Skills:

• The portraits are well composed and central in the frame, with enough space around them to not look cramped
• I considered cutting them to a square format, and bringing them much closer in to concentrate more on the faces – I am still not sure whether this would be a better option as it removes the distraction element of the background
• There were alternative images for each person – some of them looking serious, some pulling silly faces or laughing but I deliberately chose a set where the expressions were similar to focus on the similarities of people rather than their mood at the time of taking the image.
• I tried to put the people at their ease by chatting (and offering cake) – I feel this has come across in the portraits as they all seem relaxed, in spite of having a photograph taken by a stranger with minimal warning.

 Quality of outcome:

• The images are of a reasonable quality, sharp and stand out from the background
  • It might have been better to take the people standing further away from the trees so that I could put the trees more out of focus, but the positioning was limited by the width of the pavement
    • I could have chosen a better photographic place to allow for the above point – but then I wouldn’t have been able to take the people on my street

 Demonstration of creativity:

• I extended a previous piece of work The Square Mile as the basis of the assignment
  
• The work was loosely based on Sander’s typology – with each person titled by their role rather than name, but the background does not give any additional information

 Context:

• The whole assignment was based on the work done in part 1 and as such I did not reference any additional research into portraiture
• The work was based on the theory of typologies, although the group was chosen by place rather than role.
• More explanation could be put into the written accompanying piece, but it might be repetitive
  • Could deal with this by linking better to earlier pieces of work in part 1.

Overall, I am happy with this piece of work – although I am still not very confident about taking pictures of strangers. It is definitely a skill that needs practice.