Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice

Selection of final images & review (P4, M4, D4)

Image No:

Theme or focus of image & reasons for choiceThe overall theme of my images is to show a very strange and colourful image. I wanted to bring across the parts of images that people miss and don’t take into consideration. An example of this would be the image above this shows my friend and a guitar this is fo a music magazine and the way the edit is very blue and bright shows a futuristic and colourful side. The reason I went for this theme is so that people may be attracted to the futuristic part instead of the extremely natural images your used to seeing. The focus of the image above is the face and guitar as its for a music magazine. The 5th image is a quirky image with a view to make it iconic. I feel the theme of my images came through quite strong however in some images seem to lose the focus of the theme such as in image 4 the image is very different and dosent have much to do with music and this is not what my theme is.

Techniques UsedIn my images the ISO was ok however it could have been higher as my images were very bright. I feel like the shutter speed was on for too long as some off my Images are very blurry. I did ad a blur effect however the original image was blurry as I didn’t focus the camera properly. When taking my images I used a tripod a so my images weren’t extremely blurry and my images would look more professional. In my images I used the rule of thirds so that the main focus point was the part of the persons faces which I wanted the viewers to see. Also when taking my images I went to different heights so that my images were not just from a worms eye view and then the images show off the people in a better light.

Strengths & suggested improvementsIn my images I thought that a strength was the way my images show off the people and guitar from different angles and heights. The reason I thought this was because off the way that some of my images looked. I used survey monkey to get feedback on my images and people said that the different heights of my images show off there faces well very well. One of my questions was do you feel that my images are edited correctly? However this turned out to be one of my weaknesses. During the editing stage I changed the images quite allot because I tried to go for a futuristic approach. However I feel that this didn’t come through in my images because 70% of people thought that my images were over edited. Another strength to my images was that my images were extremely varied as they showed off a wide range of angles and positions which made my images look professional.Editing detailsWhen editing my images I loaded them into Photoshop 1 by 1. I then continued to change the contrast and brightness of the image to make the image look more appealing. My intension was to go for a futuristic look so that the faces looks more interesting. However it came out wrong because I over edited them and they ended up looking really bad. I added a colour effect around the edges because then the area that I want people to see stands out more.

Capture LogSetting Shutter Speed ISO Aperture

Manual

Manual

Manual

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-

ISO – 800

ISO –800

ISO –800

Aperture- 4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

ISO –800

ISO –800

ISO –800

ISO – 800

ISO –800

ISO –800

ISO -800

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8