Wiliam Eggleston: The Final Cuts

Here are the contact sheets from my final project:

I did, and didn't meet some of my parameters for the project. As you can tell, unlike William (who I set out to emulate), I didn't take 1 photo of each place. I took multiples, to catch decisive moments/change settings. I wish I had been able to catch the decisive moments without multiples, but my inexperience with manual shutter/aperture settings caused me to need many settings for the same subjects. Other than that, I feel as though I went about shooting in the same manner as Eggleston.

Here are my final photos:

I feel as though I emulated his street photography well, but I lacked on his photos of the 'day to day' mundane; things like forks on a table, ice in a drink, eggs on a plate etc. This project really pushed me to develop my own personal style, and learn how to edit my photos well. Because William has such great color balance, but achieves highly saturated images, I had to learn how to color balance and heighten my saturation/warmth, without throwing off the white tones of my photos. I think I did a good job, and I'm actually very proud of my work. If given the opportunity to do it again, I would shoot in Boston and go inside more locations (diners, street shops etc), and take more 'in home' photos.