Final Evaluation
During this project I have learnt how to gray scale, duo tone,
level and use different lighting. I have also learnt how to crop my images to a
certain size; this has also made me think of how I take my photos because I
would keep in mind how it would look when the image would be cropped. In each task I had learnt how to do the tasks
set which were to learn how to duo tone, gray scale and level my images. The most
effective task I think was the different types of lighting situations I could
use when taking photos indoors and outdoors. In every task I made sure to do a
step by step so therefore it would be easier for me to remember. In every task
I learnt something different which helped me grasp a better understanding on
photography in a general sense. For example when I learned how to duo tone this
helped me understand how to bring more color out in my images.
I would say the most effective task for me was the different
kinds of lighting which were artificial, natural, both natural and artificial
and the copy stand. This was the most important to me because it helped my
photos have a different type of aesthetic than before. Almost every task I
tried to explore fully. Every task that I have completed has helped me develop
my understanding and the way I edit my photos. This has benefited me because
it has given me a peace of mind when taking and editing my photos. Each task
has development my knowledge greatly when thinking about taking a photo and has
also made me improve my editing skills. I think that editing a photo and using
techniques in photography is beneficial to both aspects when editing and capturing
a photo. I think that editing definitely plays a big part when producing an
image and so does using techniques when taking the photos.
Speaking of techniques in photography, cropping was one of
our tasks that you could either take in to account when taking a photo or not.
When I took my photos I did a mixture of both to see how my pictures would be
affected. For instance when I didn’t take in to account that the pictures would
be cropped to a certain length I lost a lot of the photos essence. Although
when I did use the technique I captured the photos essence more effectively. On
the photo shoot I experienced things such as lens flare and when shooting in
manual the lighting would be everywhere. This was a problem for some of my
shots so I had to use a lens hood and auto focus in some of my pictures because
of the lighting problem.
When researching I took images from the internet and
magazines to get a general look of how the colors would look together (RGB,
CMYK). It also helped me when organizing the images together because it gave me
a general look at how my color grid would look later on such as using a
certain pattern. When I edited my final photos for both the RGB and CMYK I
wanted to make them stand out individually by having them look bold and
colorful. This also would help my final photos look aesthetically pleasing
because of how the colors popped. My RGB final photos have a general theme
which is nature and my CMYK has the theme of using outdoor and indoor items
with also a touch of nature. Overall I think my images are effective to the
theme of RGB and CMYK. If I had to improve any of the tasks I have done so far
it would be the photo shoot because I would have liked to had more outdoor
shots and another thing I would have liked to improve was the cropping because
although in some photos I took I knew they would be cropped some other photos
had lost key parts of the image because I had forgotten that all of the photos
would have been cropped to the same size which were 6 cm x 6 cm or 4.5 cm x
4.5 cm.
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