MY CREATIVE PROCESS

The Creative process behind this project was heavily involved in the culling aspect. It takes a lot of cuts and revision stages to narrow down over 1000 photographs taken over a span of five months into a selection of ten photographs. This meant long sessions of going through every photograph taken on a particular day and deciding which ones to keep and which ones to get rid of.

An iterative process or "Killing your Darlings" was one concept that we had gone over in CPSA 250 that prepared me for this. When you've spent a lot of time going out to take photos and edit them, it can be hard to let go of that work. I had a few times where I went out to take photos with Jonathin, came home and started going through the photos only to realize that I wasn't really happy with any of them. It was really hard not to just settle and go with those photos. I had spent so much time and wanted a result to show for it.

Learning about this concept made stomaching that reality a little easier. I learned that this is a normal thing - sometimes you'll feel pressure in your own mind to keep something around because you had already put so much time into it, but the best results can be had when you keep things around because you actually like it, not because you feel like you should like it.

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