Home: Initial thoughts

My first thoughts for the brief home were ‘happy’, ‘safe’, and photos that would make me smile on reflection. I didn’t want to plan specific photos as I think as things that feel like home to me, aren’t forced, they are natural and raw. Whenever I felt there would be a good representation of home I would take my camera with me to try to represent this. However as this was at my original home I didn’t have the canon cameras so used my Sony DSLR instead. I enjoyed using the micro lense on this as I like photos that are close up and include lots of detail. The first thing I did was take my camera to a family event, as this is the stereotypical and classic idea of home. Looking back on my photos I realise most of them are of my dog, Twitch, which I thought is what would happen as he is very photogenic and my favourite. When I think home and being safe and happy, I think of Twitch so I think this could be a focus for my home project. However over the two weeks at easter I was taking pictures of anything I liked and made me feel good. So I have categorised all these photos into different themes for editing and to decide on which ones to use to represent how I see home.