Melanie Friend

I don't think it was quite fair that this artist followed straight on from the exhibit using light boxes. You had the sharp and detailed images of Craig Ames, then the large unframed, soft focused images of the next artist / photographer.
The project was to do with local air shows / aviation, whilst depicting families at play on the beach, with typical North East drab and grey weather.
For my personal taste I feel these images should may be have been displayed at a smaller scale, the only problem then would have been loosing the aircraft in the sky of every image.
After the last 4 weeks we have spent on our project considering lens choice, depth of field, focal point etc, I would have put a little more thought in to the camera and lens used for this project, but every artist / photographer is going to find their own desired style.
I was finding my eye had nothing really to settle on or focus in on, but this may have been the desired effect.