Evaluation of Mini Projects

From the exploration of these mini projects I have learnt a considerable amount of technical techniques and methods, especially within the studio environment, a dramatic development as at the beginning of the semester it was not an area I was familiar within or confident but now feel I can not only use it but produce results that are of a high standard. This development technically will be of substantial use to my practice as I look at portraiture and still life specifically, perhaps within a commercial context. Of course as well I have become more astute within my observational skills as I can reflect and analyse the effect lighting has upon both the subject matter and also the impact also on the viewer. Of the mini projects I feel that I most enjoyed and got the most out of the Studio Lighting and Product Still Life projects and to a slightly lessened extent the Pub Interiors project as I feel I put a lot more into these projects and became engrossed within them which I feel has been reflected within the development and final outcomes of these projects. But on the other side of that I feel that because of the intense interest within these projects the HDR project was not as developed and suffered because I became disinterested with it as the interest within the other projects intensified. I feel that this was slightly inevitable situation as taking 4 projects on at the same time it was always likely that one project wouldn't be quite as developed, strong or interesting as the others. I think if I were to have had the choice again I would have picked a more contextual or self promotional project which would have been used as a supplement and complimented the other projects well and meant that full attention and interest would have been maintained across all of the projects. Below are the images from the mini projects which I felt were my strongest and most effective for the respective mini projects.