For this challenge, I chose to shoot photos of my maternal grandmother, who recently moved to West Vancouver from Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. She is my sole remaining grandparent, and she moved to be closer to the rest of her family- 3 out of her 4 children all live around the Lower Mainland, including my mother. For all of these photos, I took advantage of natural light while outside on the balcony of her apartment, but it was a cloudy day so I couldn't have the best settings in terms of ISO, but I feel like these photos turned out well anyways. In two of the pictures she is featured with my dog, who for her is just another one of the grandkids. This shows my ancestry in that most of my immediate family is connected to the matriarchal side, just due to close proximity to each other. In these images, I wanted them to feel sort of soft and serene, as she is finally closer and connected to family. My favourite image of the series is the first one, mostly because it has the best lighting out of them and my favourite facial expression. In terms of what I would do better next time, I would want to be able to do a better variation of images, or possibly combine these ones with images of my mother to have more, but this all depends on the time available of the person. I didn't want to intrude too much. so I didn't end of with many images. Overall, I feel like I successfully completed the assignment and managed to make these images work together as a series that shows a simple view of a person.
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