Final work:
Planning: (before starting work)
Before starting to do this work I needed to know what it meant by ‘identity’ and what kind of things I could take photos of for it to be counted as ‘identity’. Once I’d have done that I needed to decide what I wanted to take photos of and how that would be catergrised as ‘identity’. After I had decided where to have the photoshoot I needed to decide what to actually take pictures of whilst I’m there, to do this I googled different places to take photos down in Brighton. Before I went and took the photos though I had to do plan what settings to put my camera in to decide this I needed to research the settings on the camera I was using. For me to be able to complete this unit I will need to have a clear idea of what I want to take pictures of and how I’m going to do it. I will also need to know how to use photoshop to edit the photos after I have taken them. To make sure I know how to use this properly I might need to google how to use the different settings on the programme then just test them out when I’m editing.
Research & Experimentation:
I will need to do some research to complete this unit. For example I will need to research information and how to use my camera properly and all of the different settings that are avaliable, also how to change the setting that are already set, for example the exposure. I will need to research the meaning of identity and what kind of things I could take for it to be counted as identity. Another thing I will need to research are photographers and how they influence me and the kind of work they have done. To do this I used qutoe a few different websites, some including:
Peterson, D. (2012). Understanding Focus. Available: http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/2210/understanding-focus/. Last accessed 3rd January 2019.
manualslib. (2018). Nikon COOLPIX P500 User Manual: Using Manual Focus. Available: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/327543/Nikon-Coolpix-P500.html?page=56. Last accessed 9th January 2019.
whiteknightpress. (2018). PHOTOGRAPHER’S GUIDE TO THE NIKON COOLPIX P500. Available: http://whiteknightpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Excerpt-from-Nikon-P500-Book.pdf. Last accessed 9th January 2019.
Cox, S. (2018). What is exposure?. Available: https://photographylife.com/what-is-exposure. Last accessed 4th January 2019.
The Art Story . (2019). Diane Arbus American Photographer. Available: https://www.theartstory.org/artist-arbus-diane.htm. Last accessed 9th January 2019.
Photo.com. (2018). Martin Parr. Available: https://www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer/38/martin-parr. Last accessed 10th January 2019.
Crain, A. (2018). Lorna Simpson, American photographer. Available: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lorna-Simpson. Last accessed 17th January 2019
Production:
To do this I went to Brighton 2 times, I was only originally planning to only go once but the 1st time I went it was reallt cloudy and then it started to rain so the hptos I did get werent very good and didn’t look very effective. The 2nd time I went it was a really nice day and got all the pictures I wanted and they looked alot better than the 1st time. To make sure I don’t make this mistake again I will look at the weather before I get there to make sure it is good enought to take photos in. To take the test shots I went around my town to test out the different settings on the camera, some of them came out really bright where you couldn’t tell what it was meant to be, then others came out really dark wheree you also couldn’t tell what it was.
Reflection:
Overall I am happy with the final product that I have made, I got all of the photos I wanted to get and edited them how I wanted to then put them all in a slideshow. One thing that I think I could improve is the edit of all the photos, I feel like I couldv’e done more to it and added more effects to make them more effective and stand out more. I also feel like I could’ve taken more photos from each of the locations so when I was chosing my final selection of pictures I had more to chose from and different kind of photos.
To edit the photos I opened the photos up in photoshop and changed the brightness, exposure and vibrance if I needed to. I didn’t change all of that to evrything as sometimes I thought that the pictures didn’t need to be changed or edited much so I left them as the original. I thensaved the edited copy as well as the original and once I had edited the photo I looked back to make sure I like how the edited one looked and prefered it from the origainal one.
Once I had finished editing all the photos I copied them on the ‘photos’ tab to create a slideshow which I could upload to YouTube for other people to watch. To do this I went onto the photos and selected the ones I wanted to use and pressed create slideshow and it did it automatically for me then I needed to chose some music to put in the background. Once I had all this I just had to press export and then upload it to YouTube so everyone can watch it.
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