For my gallery response I’m basing mine on the Taylor
Wessing portrait prize, I pick this one because it’s one of my favorites, and
some of the work in there is really amazing and inspiring. I wasn’t sure which
image to go with to try and base my response on, so I just went with doing a portrait
seen as I liked a lot of the work in there.
I’ve done a self-portrait for it, but using a wide angle lens
to get my surroundings in the image as well, because I
feel my surroundings reflect who I am
and what I do, so for example I’m into computer’s hence the screens, I’m
reading, there’s papers on the floor which are visible behind my leg, you can
also make out some other small details, ideally I would have liked to have an
even wider lens so I could get more of
my room it to include other items which will reflect who I am.
On the lighting side I made it quite dark using just the
lamp for lighting. Lighting up part of my face and some of the objects around
me, the reason I did this is because I’m not to comfortable taking images of myself
or having them taken of me, so the low light is a way around that but also a representation
of it because it shows that I’m kind of hiding. I also feel that it focuses the
image a bit more, making it so that the image isn’t to cluttered because of everything
being exposed and visible.
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