AD5803 - Feedback

During the tutorial we had in class yesterday, I showed for the first time the pictures I shot until now in order to receive some pieces of advice.

I am particularly concerned about the consistence of the pictures. Since I am always shooting in very different environments, I found some difficulties to make a visually fluent series and I am not confident in giving directions to my subjects.

When I shot the family, it was very easy for me to get good pictures because they were naturally interacting with each other and I just had to catch the "decisive moment" and not making it.

I have to find a way to be consistent without being repetitive, but I still don't have a formula for this project.

Discussing in class, Julia recommended me to pay more attention to the angle I am shooting from, and not to stay to tight to the subject.

Those portraits work quite well together because in fact they are all shot from a similar angle.

This one, for example doesn't fit at all with the rest of the series, I am shooting from a lower angle and the subject fills the frame.

A very crucial difference will be made by the layout of the book. Since it will be a digital book, I need to make sure to create a design that works well whatever is the size of the screen from where you see the book.

I am starting looking more in depth at practitioners projects that I can use as a reference for this series. I just came into the pictures taken by August Sander that represent the perfect examples of series of portraits of ordinary people that is absolutely consistent but not repetitive.

And again, Paul Strand:

As a viewer, you would like to hear the story of every person portrayed by them. And this is effect that I aim through my portraits.