Evaluation

ISO - 100
Shutter Speed - 1/250
F Stop 2.8
White Balance - Auto

My original idea was to shoot in a studio with a white wall behind me. I also wanted to hold up a card saying the words 'Right Now'. I wanted to use the studio to take my photo but as that wasn't available i had to change my idea. Instead, i had changed my location and I went to Sackville Gardens to take my photograph. Once i had finished my photo-shoot, i uploaded the photos onto iPhoto. I was meant to drag the photos onto the desktop. Instead i instantly dragged my photos onto iphoto which cropped my image. And reduced it's size. In doing so, my original file disappeared. And the actual file size wasn't the right so when I zoomed into the image, the image would then pixelate.  I had used photoshop to edit the video and changed the colour on the picture. I was happy with my black and white copy i had made from the picture. But I wanted to experiment with the colours so I played about with the contrast and the colours available to me. So I created a picture and changed all the settings and it turned out like this

At first, I found it complicated to use the canon camera. Simply because I had never used a Canon before. Although we did have a workshop where we used Canon cameras to get the hang of it prior to the actual photoshoot. So I wasn't very familiar with the setting sides of things such as the ISO settings etc. But as the photoshoot neared I took a few practice pictures to get familiar with the camera. Although at this point, my knowledge with this camera wasn't great, I was gaining confidence in using it.

I wanted a pop feeling to this cover. So by bringing out the colours on the surroundings, I thought it may have bought the emotions out necessary for it to be a pop album cover. I wanted writing on the album cover, so i thought id use the name of one of my favourite albums of all time, 'Right Now' which was a pop album. I had looked at countless pop albums prior to the photoshoot and there wasn't really one similar to mine. However, there was references to mine so I took all those references and decided, I wanted my picture like that.


I believe my photo turned out how I intended it too. Simply because I did not regret anything after i took the photo, I was extremely happy with what I produced. I wanted to make my album cover a little emotional, and by taking a picture of a male standing with colourful beautiful trees behind him can convey that emotion I believe.

Overall, this project turned out how I expected. Trials and tribulations here and there, however, I got there in the end. I expected this because, this was my first time using a Canon camera, and it was my first major photography project. I had a vision of what I wanted my work to be like, and as the process went on, I stuck with that vision throughout when I easily could have changed it, I didn't and I got what I wanted at the end. So this is why, this project was a success for me.

Rational, Purpose and Technical Information Of My Photos.

 In this photo, theme is heavy. i thought about the idea of a tyre being heavy. If i'm honest, this photo hasn't really got much to it's idea. However, this was because of the locations we were taking the pictures at.

 In this photo, the theme is based on space. The shadows signify society, and the shadows you see on the image are spaced apart, i wanrted to show the space in society between people and how broken our society is. I think the shadows apart do show this.

 This photo i believe was where i had to think hardest of what to portray. It is the theme of time. What i wanted to show is that how the filth in the hole is a representation of the world we live in today. The filth signifies all the bad things in our world, the wars that go on, Dictator's, terrorist etc. And the hole, is the world. And that the bad things that i've mentioned above, is leaving a hole in our world. The visuals are quite clear, filth around the sewage. People may not interpret the photo like i have done as people may have their own own interpretations of the photo.

 This photo represents time. It is a picture of a charity vault. I did this because, i believe it is time to give back to the people less fortunate than we are. Also, the thank you written on the vault has a powerful message in itself. I believe the message has been put out well. Because when we or someone else receives something we are truly grateful for, the best thing is to say thank you. And the thank you written on this vault says to us that the people in poverty will be extremely grateful for anything that we give them, whether its food, clothes, footwear or even the smallest thing.

In this photo, the theme was glass. I took a picture of parts of a person through a glass and also their whole face too. I wanted to show that, when we question things in life, sometimes we question it superficially. Also sometimes, people are quick to judge other people without knowing the real person. I wanted to show someone looking through the glass, because people need to see things from the other persons point of view, rather then their own.

This photo is based on the time theme. I took a picture of a someone looking at a calendar. The calendar represents a time or place or an event. The reflection of a face is also shown in the image. 

In this photo, the theme was heavy. I took a picture of brown heavy looking oversized vase. Again, because of the location there was not much meaning behind this photo as there are not any heavy object around there.

This picture's theme is glass. I wanted the broken glass to portray a human, when a person feels broken inside. The space around the glass is very big compared to the glass. I wanted to space to portray a humans mind too, how it's all empty when a person is broken, which links with the broken glass. I think the message could have been more clearer had there been more shards or broken glass around the one you see in the picture.

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I changed the brightness in this, as well as the contrast. To the point it looks like i'm holding a torch underneath my face. I also wanted the dark background just behind me to make my face look brighter