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we had our final critique this morning. i really hate critiques... especially of photos that are "successful."

i don't know. i think it becomes more of a problem when successfully made photographs have no hint of complexity to them. technical things like light, shadow, angle, and composition become important and perhaps the only things to think about. but when people make comments about stuff like that out loud they just come off either really contrived or really... obvious.

i go through the same thoughts but i always prefer them to be brief and to remain internal. then again, everything is an internal process to me.

what i do appreciate about critiques is when people find something to say about photos that i initially don't find interesting.

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anyway, about my critique. really, there's not much to my project. so it was really short except in a bad way because we were running out of time. despite my usual non-wantings to says things, i wanted to say something about how i've never done something like that before (which is kind of duh) and how it was really strange. because.

even though my "work" is all over the place, i've always been really tight with and sensitive to (again) things like light, shadow, angle, and composition. like i was saying, those things are just the bare bones of photography. so to borrow all those elements from a previous work that i'm trying to recreate seemed kindaaaaaaa like cheating.

overall, the project was really labor intensive and thus interesting to pull off, but i don't think i would want to explore it much further. it is what it is. recreations of movie stills. but i did derive some other ideas from it that i would consider trying.

oh yeah, no mention of how/why i chose the stills that i did, by the way. i still like the concept behind it... but i feel now like i could've done anything and it both wouldn't have made a difference and would've been a looooot less stressful.