With the original interpretation assignment I wanted to convey some degree of originality and lateral thought to the subjects.

With Re-interpretation I am still considering originality, but maybe not to the same level. I think this time I want to make the images more obvious as to what they may be.

Boat shallow dof

The boat image is just a boat with a shallow depth of field, as apposed to the original assignment when I used a gravy boat. This time I chose a real boat because it was far easier to demonstrate depth of field in a marina and I wanted to get away from the far out interpretations I sometimes use.

Things in a pile

 

Things in a pile.

With this image I have drawn inspiration from our critical and analytical studies with Jane Jones. We had recently been researching Roland Barthe and his essay “Death of the author” in which we discussed the meaning of an image. With the above image I could have just photographed a pile of coins, but I decided to add other elements to the picture to challenge the viewer to think about its meaning. In the picture there is nothing that should not be there, everything is a clue to what the photographer might have wanted to say.

A couple

 This image is as the title suggests, a couple. They are a pair of small steel steel sculptures I bought from a blacksmith about thirty years ago. I quite like them and because they are black I decided to bring them into the studio and photograph them against a plain white background with no clutter to draw the viewer more easily to the subject. 

 

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