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.