Answer to Tutors Comments to Assignment 1

After reading my tutors comments I'll be honest it was a bit of a reality check for me. I suddenly realised how far from where I want to be my work and more importantly my mind set are. I realised I am really out of touch with learning and I desperately need to think differently in my image making to progress with the course.
It seems one of my main problems with assignment 1 was my basic understanding of the concept "a group of images that are unified by a particular theme". It hadn't crossed my mind to have one theme for a group of images which shows my naivety and lack of experience of what is needed in the course.
My tutor asks why I used some borders for some images and not for others, colour or black and white and different ratios even in pairs. Well I can answer them all in one simple statement, that I looked at each image individually and never thought once about how it would looked next to another never mind a set.
I am finding it hard to explain why I choose certain post production techniques other than what I feel is right for the image and this is one of the major lessons I need to learn. To think and asses the reasons for my choices, to discuss them and explain them to myself. This has now become my main objective in completing the course, to understand why I make choices and hopefully with this I will start to make conscious decisions when taking and producing an image.

"A key attribute to go hand in hand with the experimentation is to recognise issues, develop solutions and learn from mistakes"