Feedback

After showing Les and my group the contact sheets from both my shoots and a quick edit of 15 or so images I was very happy to hear that they thought the images were strong. I'd chosen this story because of it's interest to me personally but also because I thought I could do it justice.

I think I have a strong set of images that tick the boxes for a news story. The only comments I received was that in some of the detail shots of the room there were hot spots on the walls from the reflection of the lights. This was somewhat unavoidable, short of turning all the lights off and going for long exposure or portable flash lighting, instead of going back and reshooting I've decided to try and select images where this isn't as distracting. In some of the images it's totally unavoidable but I don't think it is enough of a factor to reshoot the whole thing.

I've narrowed my images down to around 15, I was conscious to include images that would lend themselves to a written piece such as the photograph of the tambourine. Les has a nice story about how he acquired this and proof that it was signed so I thought this would be a nice shot to include because if it goes to a feature it would be a nice thing to talk about in an article. 

I've also chosen to include an original article about when Smiths fans first started coming to the club and the club was very much against it. They said fans were vandalising the club and causing issues. This is the back story for the motivation to open a dedicated room for fans and Les has been very welcoming and in 2004 decided to make the room open for public viewing and contributions. Again this is a key element for a news story so having a shot of the original article makes it more interesting. Rather than just reading about why the room exists people can see the original article. 

My struggle with this project was always going to be creating 10 interesting images based around 1 room. Cassie was very conscious of this and said my "Providing there is enough difference in the images it could lend itself to a feature" I've tried to keep this in mind from the start and take photographs that were both interesting and different. I'm very happy with my images and now it's time to narrow down my shots to 10 final images and caption them.