Initial thoughts on Assignment Four

After speaking with my tutor, I am starting to think about the progression into assignment Four.

I would like to continue documenting the device usage within my home, especially in terms of my husbands usage. My tutor expressed that my husband has the potential to "carry a series" in the sense that he uses his devices so much that I have enough material to follow into it's own project. I have started to research areas within the impact of device usage within relationships to get some sort of basis to back up my own experience of this. Looking at the amount of articles that I have found so far, it's not something that is individual to me and in way of my project, the photographs are more than likely documenting something that the viewers can relate to themselves.

In my previous feedback, my tutor touched upon the whether it was important as to what my husband actually looks at while on his devices, "is it important what it on the screen?" and, personally, it doesn't matter. Any considerable amount of time that he spends on his phone, etc, is time that his attention is away from us/me. I cant say that I don't worry at all though, but that stems back to his behaviour early in our relationships, nine years ago. When I start to look further into research in this area, I will be able to reference more about that.

After my last feedback, I started to use my phones built in black and white filters, looking specifically at the tonal mode (which, I will be honest, sometimes comes out looking too flat) and also the mono mode which tends to have a bit more contrast. So technically I am taking teach photo three times, one in the normal colour mode, one in the tonal mode and one in the mono mode. This is where the photos are now becoming less discreet and more in your face. It's difficult to take three photos without them knowing that they are being taken.

Further notes: After taking the photos in three different modes, I have now uploaded all photos taken to date and I'm really disappointed as none of the preset black and white filters on the phone transfer to the computer. They have all transferred as colour files. So each photo that I took in the two black and white filters have all transferred to my PC as colour files and my library now has three copies of the same photo. That is disappointing. But now I can revert back to just taking the one photo and have to really consider the processing when it comes to editing the photos. As opposed to the built in filters, I will now solely convert the images into black and white through Lightroom. This means I really need to look at the tones and contrasts and to make the photos more contemporary.