Questionnaire Analysis- Coffee Table Book

Questionnaire Analysis- Coffee Table

In my first question, I asked the audience how old they are to get a basic feel for the age range, and as the results show, the majority (66.7%) are 16-25 years old. I had no one above the age of 56 answering and the lowest percentage were 46-55 year old’s. This shows that, my main audience are in the younger category, therefore, I have to keep in mind that these are the majority of people answering my questions.

In this question, the overall results showed that fashion was the most favoured type of photography by getting 44.4%. However, in order for me to do this for my coffee table book, it may be difficult; even though I have access to a studio, finding the fashion and people to model the fashion will most likely not be easily accessible and if I did attempt this in my project, I do not think it would present my full potential in regards to photography as it would look too amature. Therefore, I need to choose between the two second choices that I have, either nature/ wildlife photography or portrait photography. To make my work it’s best standard, I think nature-based photography will be the easiest pictures to attain and it’s the type of photography that would look the best. 

In this question, it showed that 100% of the people who answered, likes long exposure used in photography. Therefore, this is something to consider when doing my own work, I might include some long exposure and combine it in nature photography, if it is possible to link the two because this is clearly something that is aesthetically pleasing to people.

In this question, it showed that a fair amount of people like leading lines, as the majority voted yes (55.6%). However, the ‘No’ vote is not much lower than this as it is 44.4%, therefore leading lines is not necessarily something that I am going focus on, however there is a possibility that I will still include leading lines.

Direct sunlight in photography proves to be something that people like to see as the overall vote on this is 89.9% and only 11.1% voted no. therefore this is definitely something I will use in my project as it links up closely with nature anyway.

Light painting, is overall something people want to see being used in photography as the yes vote is 66.7%, however, 33.3% still said no which is about halfway under the winning vote. Therefore, light painting is not something I will focus on seeing as it does not really relate to nature, additionally long exposure is similar to this and that is something I intend to use.

Fashion photography is more favoured (55.6%) over nature/wildlife photography (44.4%). However nature is not extremely lower than fashion therefore I am still motivated to use nature photography in my coffee table book as I know that people will still enjoy looking at these pictures.

Gregory Crewson’s picture seemed to capture people’s attention the most (55.6), most likely because it was the only picture out of the photographers that was in colour, however Ansel Adams and Michael Testino, came in at second place (both getting 22.2%). However, Don McCullin got no votes, which means that war-based photography is not something people prefer. For my project, I will most likely try to combine Crewson’s and Adam’s style of photography by still using the nature landscape effect but using light and colour effectively to add more emotion to the pictures.77.8% of people who answered this question prefer when everything in an image is in focus. Therefore, when conducting my own project, I will ensure that I use a narrow aperture to capture everything in the shot in focus. However, I might still experiment and take some wide angle picture mainly because I think that it will make the pictures more interesting instead of just using pictures of the same style.

It can be clearly seen that no one likes seeing pictures in black and white, which is probably why Ansel Adam’s nature photography was not everyone’s favourite, however, if it was in colour, maybe people would have liked it more. Therefore, I will ensure when doing my own  project that all of my pictures are in colour.

In this question, the majority of people who answered stated that overall, 26-35 year olds(55.6%)  and 35-45 year olds (44.4%) are more likely to own a coffee table book therefore, I need to aim my images at this age range, however, I think people of all ages will enjoy looking at nature-based images.