Requirements:
- The photographs had to feature people.
- The photographs had to be staged, rather than a documentation of something that just happened to happen.
The latter was tricky for me. I preferred just taking my camera somewhere and capturing things. And I didn't even do that very often.
The newspaper headline that I came up with, was: "INCREASING NUMBER OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS THROUGH LACK OF BICYCLE LIGHTS!"
I wanted a subject that I could take pictures for during nighttime, because I could only organize shoots at a time at which the daylight was long gone. Close to midwinter, you get the picture.
I had a strong tendency to think about how I was going to do things for far too long, and postpone actually doing them. Composition, lighting, etc. Eventually, I did the shoot the night before the pictures were due. Woops.
Most of the criticism that I received ended up concerning the number of photographs that I had (far too few) and the literal subject, which restricted me.
In retrospect, I would have given the exact same criticism.
So, my tips for the next week were:
To use more variation in the settings, to be less literal about the subject, and to spend more time actually taking pictures, so I'd have more.
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