Overall I am very pleased with the way that my project turned out; from the start of the project, when first creating the idea, to carrying out research, to contacting the college and the students within it, and then everything else that followed.
I felt like throughout the project my time management was okay, but it could have been better, as at times, especially when I wasn't sure where I wanted to go with my work, I would stop and take long breaks with it; this is something that I feel is a natural reaction when faced with an unfamiliar topic.
Having looked back on my work I could see that the quality of some of my images was not at the standard that it should be at; I feel that this was as a result of not allocating myself enough time in which to complete each 'shoot', which meant that I wasn't focussing on aspects such as making sure the image was in focus before taking it. Because the turn around time for each shoot was relatively quick, this meant that I did not have time to carefully plan each shoot, for example, the area that I wanted to shoot in, and also the background that I wanted to use.
As previously discussed, I had experienced a few issues when designing my book, but these are things that I am now going to learn from, as that was the first time that I had ever published a book, and had no previous experience/knowledge of publishing companies before carrying out this project.
Although there are quite a few areas that require improvement, overall I would say that I am pleased with how my project turned out, especially as this is something which I had not previously done before, it took a lot of confidence to contact these individuals, meet up with them and generate a conversation that would benefit my project.
Although carrying out portrait work was difficult, this is something that I would do again, however, next time my approach would be different, and I would make allow myself more time to shoot and allow myself time to re-shoot if it was needed.
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