Howard Key Stages

After I gathered all the images I wanted from this room I moved on go to the next room. My grandma's sitting room is split in half with the dining room. Like in the last room, I wanted to start by taking images of the room as a whole and in the same fashion as the last room, I used a wide angel lens to make sure that I could fit the whole room, and the contents into the frame. I thought it important I capture this room as it was a large part of the family. This was where the  whole family would gather on a sunday, for tea. As my grandparents got older the family, sunday tea started to stop and this was the most promanent memory of my grandparents.

Much like the last rooms i thought that it was important to record some of the key details of the room, to make sure that the images followed in a series, aesthetically. In the dining room there was alot of momentios  things from my childhood that reminds me of my grandma. While I was searching through this room I found a really old photograph, from my dads first wedding day. I really liked the look of the photo and thought it woukd fit in well with the concept of my photographic narritive. I decided to take an image of this where I found it, on top of a sewing machine. I thought that this also relfected the type of people my grandparents are, very sentimental. There are alot of pictures around the house, from old photographs to paitings.

One of these images is a paiting by my grandma's favorite artists. Like everything else that I decided to photograph, this painting held alot of memories and meaning to it. I remember the day my grandma was given this painting, it was a day that  holds alot of memories, which is clear as to this day I can still remember it. For many of the close up images I used a 40mm lens. The 50mm was unavailable at the time of my photoshoot, but by using the 40mm I could still get the effect that I wanted with the 50mm. I don't think that the some of the images from this room worked as well as what they did in the last room. There was alot less to photograph in this room. However I think that I gathered some good images to go into my narritive.

That was the last room that I wanted to document but there was still some features that I wanted to capture that weren't part of the room that I had already photographed. I decided to go around the house, inside and out, taking some more images of key features. I went into the garden and decided to take some image of the clothing drying line. When I was younger my grandma would make me her peg girl, this involved me putting in a red apron and holding the peg while she hung the clothes. To take this image I used a 40mm lens, set the aperture to around F.18 as there was alot of sun that day.

Another aspect of the house I wanted to photograph was the front and back door, I think that this would have been a good way to start and finish my narritive. At this point I still hadn't worked a sequence to put the images into, to create a narritive set of images. For these images I used the wide angle lens as this made it easier to get everything I wanted in one image, the door with some of the surrounding house.

The last part of the house I wanted to photograph  was a wall of photohgraphs leading to the upstairs, I thought that this tied in well with some of the photos I took earlier. I managed to get all the images I needed in one day which I was very pleased with as I meant that I was able to work to a short time frame.