Year Evaluation

This year I feel that I have improved so much in photography, I now understand how to hold and professionally use a camera whereas at the beginning I had no idea of how to do anything.  At first I thought that photography was going to be easy as all I would have to be doing was taking photographs, when now I know how hard taking a good and professional picture is as there is a lot to think about. I have also learned how much range there is in photography and to be able to be great in all aspects I have had to be really creative which to me is still really hard and I am still improving on. Having never had a photography lesson before this year I have had to take in a lot of information. Personally I found this year difficult but overall enjoyable, I feel that i have done a lot of work but it was all worth it to get the grade I am hoping for. Hopefully next year I will feel a bit more relaxed and have great creative juices flowing and there will be less work so I can really focus on what I want to achieve as this year I felt a bit rushed and that my work wasn't as great as it could have been, however I am still happy with what I did. I loved working on my own throughout the year as I could shoot and do things that I wanted to do. I feel my attendance for this subject has been really good as I have only had a few lessons of for being unwell. What I havent particularly enjoyed about this subject is when I haven't had great idea for what to shoot as I found that my photographs were not as good and I would still have to spend time trying to make them as good I possibly could. When doing the exam I felt I produced some of my best work as it was really creative and after editing it looked great also I only had a small amount of time to get everything done and it turned out great. I think that next year I could use more emotion and imagination to give my photography a different flare and to also try and find what I like doing as my main focusing photography not just for the next year but for years to come. I really enjoyed the contextual work because I was able to look and get ideas off of other great photographers, I also really enjoy writing about what I think even if sometimes I'm not able to say it in the most educated way. Editing I found really repetitive which in one way, to me, is really good as I allow myself more time to think about what to shoot rather than how to edit it. From everything I have learnt this year I feel I can use it in the future and will help me in everything I need to do even if its not mainly photography.

electronic portfolio

Best work contrast from DarbySavage

uncompleted work for unit 2

I need to complete before the 7th of may is-
overall project evaluation

20.03.2013

targets-
By the end of this lesson you will have demonstrated a clear understanding of the potential and possibilities of your chosen topic by undertaking practical work that adds to the shoots in your practical folder.
How i am going to achieve this-
i am going to be editing photographs from a previous shoot to highlight the contrast, this will hopefully improve the photographs and add to my other work in my folder.

Practical work development

I have had a conversation with paul about how I can improve my practical work in my folder. he has given me many ideas. the things i need to improve are;

• the cloud and sky shoot; maybe try andy Worhole sort of thing
• the love and hate shoot include picture in the centre 
• edit the last shoot photographs change idea of angel and devil to happy and sad

15.03.2013

Targets-
Today I will be doing some contextual work so that I am not worried about having too much to do for the rest of the week. I will also try to edit some photographs from my shoot on wednesday to add to my folder.

(13.03.2013)

Target-
by the end of this lesson you will have demonstrated a clear understanding of the potential and possibilities of your chosen topic by undertaking practical work that adds to the shoots in your practical folder.

How I will achieve this-
I am going to be editing work from previous shoots and the shoot that I did last week. I would also like to add onto one of the shoots that I have done about direction so that it may be improved.

(08.03.2013)

targets- today i am shooting in the studio of the contrast between healthy and unhealthy. after i have done that i will be editing the photographs to make them better. hopefully if i have enough time i will be able to finish some contextual work as well.

Opposites

(06.03.2013)

targets- today i am going to be editing photographs from my last shoot, i am hoping to improve them by using photoshop. i would also like to be a bit creative with the photographs by doing multiple imagery because it would look really good and would look really nice. 

Food colouring cups

Food colouring glasses

Food colouring blurr

Review

The ideas for photo shoots that I have recently done, I think, have been a success because whilst editing them they look really good and all of them show a clear picture of contrasts. The one shoot that didn't turn out as well as I hoped was because the lighting was different from one side to the other.  A few examples of shoots I have done is a few for contrasting colours where I have used sweets and food colouring in two separate shoots. I have also done a shoot where people were standing in different directions. For the shoot where I used colourful sweets I used a boom light, I decided to use this because I would have to have the sweets laying on a table and the boom light would give the best light results for the way everything was laying. The shoot that didn't turn out good because of the lighting I redone, and to make it better than the time before I double checked that the lighting was even.

20.02.2013

targets- today i am going to be editing the photographs from the two shoots that i did last week of paul and the dye in the glasses. once i have done that i will doing other things that are needed for the progress check.

personal target- to understand how to use photoshop better.

contrasting faces

15.02.2013

targets- today i am going to edit the photographs that i had taken last lesson of paul. once i am finished i will hopefully be able to do another shoot of contrasting colours.

personal target- to get better at using photoshop so that my photographs look better.

13.02.2013

My target today is to edit the photographs from last lesson of opposite directions. Then I'm going into the studio to take photographs of myself contrasting in gender. So I am going to have half of my face with make up like a woman and the other side looking like a man with a moustache and short hair etc. after I have finished the shoot I am going to edit the photographs. If I have time after this I am going to do some of the annotated photos.

8.2.2013

Targets for today-

Today I am going to use the first half of my lesson to edit former photographs from the shoot i did last week. After I have finished editing I am going to go into the studio and do a shoot of contrasting directions, so I will have two people from my class and take photographs of them facing different directions. Once the shoot is finished I am going to edit the photographs from this shoot to put into my folder. If I have time after I have done this I am going to make my mind maps and other things in my folder better.    

photo cluster

Abi

Ring Flash Photography

Silhouette and Tone