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Would like to have the four seasons as a background and flowers as the main subject. The four seasons are the year and the year is the cycle.

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This semester, I have gone from not knowing how to use a film camera to being able to express what I want to say, without the process of self-learning.

I have been learning about light, artificial light and natural light, backlight and smooth light, etc. I have been practicing on the basis of reading materials, and now I pay more attention to the three-dimensional feeling that light brings to people when shooting. However, I still do not have a good grasp of the use of light, because I do not have enough experience, so I need to take more photos from the perspective of light and shadow afterwards, and black and white photos also let me learn from the most basic light and shadow to a large extent.

Then I will look at a lot of pictures to improve my aesthetics and enrich my ideas. For example, vogue, pusspuss magazine, going to see exhibitions of famous photographers, travelling, going to parks, art is all connected. At first, you need to deliberately pay attention to which corners can constitute a good photo, and try to exercise your own aesthetic system of independent judgement from light and composition. Of course, I have not seen enough of the photographers' work personally, so I need to find more of the best work every day to improve myself at a later stage.

For example, right now, I am taking stock of myself, and I need to accumulate experience in the days to come, as my skills in some photos are not enough. Also, I haven't shot in a studio this term, so I need more training and learning about interior lighting. But outdoors I can use the scenes very well to maximise the effect I want to achieve. I take great care in choosing the people, I choose models who match my theme, so that they are the most natural in front of the camera. I also think about the location, why I want to go to a park, why I want to go to a modern place like the barbican, why I want to go indoors, these are all things I have learnt in the process of self-improvement and prep before the shoot.

After that I needed to challenge myself even more by trying to shoot from multiple dimensions. I also need to keep learning and practising to be able to improve my photography skills.

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This was my first time shooting in a black and the white camera didn't know what the negative would be. And not be well prepared on the research, so the content of films looks flat and normal.

I will do more practice and list a plan to improve myself.

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1.  I'll try to watch more pictures from photographers different that combine light and shadow to Improve my aesthetics.

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delfinacarmona Using the combination of light and shadow to express the atmosphere. It's warm and comfortable.

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2. Try to use the phone, turned it to a black and white filter as a tool to get used to the film. It is also about developing a habit of looking at the details of life

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3. Go to the Gallery is a good way to find inspiration, also learn How to compose, colour match and express your ideas in your work.

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I've started going to more exhibitions and trying to take more photos with my phone. This will help me to be more sensitive to black and white

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Shooting the same object at different brightness levels gives a different sensory experience

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There are many meanings that can be represented by double exposure. For example, multiple personalities, and conflicting ideologies.
It can be visually striking due to the image's abnormality, as well as revealing the true meaning behind the world (e.g. the picture seems to depict women being depicted by men)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19z_ldzPes
video demonstrates that the double exposures are taken on the same layer and that the white portion of the first image does not appear on subsequent layers because it has already been exposed. After that, the original black area can be used for the second exposure.
So I tried to make the background black so that the double-exposed figure could be more creative.

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After reflecting on my first shoot, I first looked up information on how double exposure works before I shot it. Then I also looked at many examples of shots and imitated the technique. I also took a small step change from the first time when I had no plan and no shooting technique.

However, double exposures still need to be based on good light and experience to be perfect, and I didn't focus well or think deeply enough in these shots, so for my next shoot I'm going to pay extra attention to this point of focus and try shooting outdoors in natural light.

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The black and white filter on my phone also gave me a better grasp of the final product, knowing which areas were black and which were white.

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I tried to imitate lighting to photograph objects by casting shadows through the light onto the walls. I found that the light made the whole image more imaginative and three-dimensional.

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 Shoot 3- Outdoor shoot （did not develop this roll of film in the darkroom）

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 Shoot 3- Outdoor shoot （did not develop this roll of film in the darkroom）

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I did not develop this roll of film in the darkroom, so I can only see the film rendering in general terms through the inverted colour filter on my phone in post.

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This shoot has given me the courage to communicate with people I don't know in the outdoors. I am now able to imagine what I would have done if I had taken advantage of the light and the architecture more than in the previous two shoots.

But it can be difficult to express ideas with just architecture, and the variability of the outdoors is a great resource, but such serendipity also requires the photographer to spend a lot of time in advance, looking at the weather, and having the opportunity to capture a particular time, place, light, and person in that one shutter. It's more of an encounter.

So for my next shoot, I'm going to do portraits outdoors. To challenge me even further to shoot outdoors and to be able to convey some content better.

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Inspired by spring, when everything comes back to life and all flowers bloom. Spring is an opportunity for change, a chance for everyone to be able to be reborn.

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Flowers can represent the labels and prejudices that everyone is labelled with in this society. Flowers can also represent a hope of rebirth. The flower here represents the prejudices and imposed ideas of the society about man. (Originally, flowers represent women, kind of feminine things)

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Go and break people's conventional thinking. It also expresses that even though these prejudices may seem to hurt on the surface, it is only by carrying the pain of these former wounds that one can truly be reborn.

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The biggest challenge was that flowers are generally presented in bright colours, if they were in black and white this would bring a different sensory experience to the viewer. The black and white grey tones help me to establish a melancholic theme and the impression the flowers give can slightly neutralise the hesitant atmosphere and make the overall look relatively comfortable.

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Shoot 4- Start my own style (about flowers)

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Shoot 4- Start my own style (about flowers)

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I feel that I was lucky on this shoot, the sunshine on that day helped a lot with the soft light on the outside. I have become relatively proficient with the camera, such as how to focus and how to compose a shot. But what I need to improve is to use more light and shadow techniques based on the variability of the outdoors to give the images more technical visibility.
For my next shoot I would like to shoot different people under the same subject to express different moods. I will also choose a relatively indoor scene to see how it works. I would like to use a female character to interpret the definition of flowers.

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The flower on his back is, as I said earlier, a burden brought on by the prejudices of society, something he carries as a male. But I also hope that these flowers will be something that he will grow out of (and be reborn).
There is an easter egg, he is gay so he had been bullied for being feminine and he was brave enough to choose to express his sexuality to the outside world, just like these flowers that bloom in the spring. But in some corners perhaps there is still a part of people who are afraid to bloom or will never be able to bloom in this lifetime.

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Following on from the previous theme of spring - what flowers represent. This time I would like to discuss what flowers mean to women. Beauty, elegance, gentleness ...... these social definitions of women can sometimes be burdensome.

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Daphne Kladis' work combines the body and light to express life and emotion. I think it is appropriate to refer to his work to show the female body.

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Shoot 5- Continue FLOWER series & reflection

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Shoot 5- Continue FLOWER series & reflection

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This shot continues the same theme and takes a similar composition, with flowers behind it. But in a different framing, last time in a park, this time in a barbican modern building, the constraints on women in this society represented by the flowers are also reasonably well represented. And this time a large white flower is used to bring all attention to the subject.
For my next shoot I wanted to try an interior space, a more intimate ambience to highlight the transformation of female from girls to women.

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The flowers here represent society's definition of women, to the extent that some definitions are encouraging as well as complimentary, while others are burdensome. It makes women stand between black and white. And the white chrysanthemum symbols a form of praise in Western culture, whereas in Chinese culture it is a tribute to a deceased loved one. Depending on how you look at it

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This time the flowers represent the expectations of women in society. I hope you are beautiful, elegant and that all high standards are overwhelming

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It is a pair of hands propped up against a wall and a smiling face. In the face of many difficulties most people don't show it on the surface.

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This time the theme wanted to show the transformation of women in two parts, the first one in the park. The freedom and innocence of the environment combined with this perspective makes the whole picture new. It fits in well with what I wanted to express as a naive girl at first.

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The head surrounded by flowers also abstractly expresses the state of the young girl at this time, her mind is pure and symbolises the vibrant image of spring.

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Unlike any of the previous shoots, this time the meaning of flowers has been transformed as well, because the idea is to combine the series with the seasons. From a social stigma or a burden to a hope of life, just like the transition from winter to spring rebirth. The girl and the flower are symbiotic, the flower is behind her, in front of her, in the sky ......

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This time the senses wish to bring warmth without any burden.

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This image helps me to be inspired by the fact that the process of growing up is always accompanied by trauma and that the back combined with the element of flowers can be used to create a work.

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The partial nudity of the body is covered with flowers, which shows the female body very well and makes it easy to imagine for yourself.

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Because of the desire to show the transformation from girl to woman, the interior was chosen as a space with a little bit of intimacy and closed off, and combined with body parts that not only express a little bit of sexuality, but represent a mature transformation of a woman. It also serves as a link between the spring and summer process. Summer represents heat, intensity, sex and love.

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The change in the back can be taken as a form of resistance, change, acceptance, etc. Each person can interpret it differently

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The bouquet of flowers at the back, with the light that happened to be coming through the window that day, was like a kind of covetousness, a fascination that focused all eyes on the flowers

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This was also the first attempt at backlighting, with naked bodies, and smoke. I will be taking this technique further in the future.
The sheer intimacy of the two shadows and the backlighting of the two is evident in this shot.

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At first, I was torn as to which combination to use for the final brief but finally chose （3）. I felt that the flower arrangement behind （1）and （2） would have detracted a little from its uniqueness if used as brief 4, as I personally liked the image.

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The main character of brief 1 - the boy and the flowers - are both represented in this one. As I mentioned in flowers series I, the flowers represent society's definition of masculinity, and they are present in front of his eyes, but he doesn't run away from them. He looks particularly naive and his eyes are looking straight into the camera. Of course, the definition of flowers is also open-ended and is interpreted differently by everyone.