UNIT 3 Comparing and Evaluation Part 1

Comparing and Evaluation

 This is my original image from my computer screen. This is how it’s supposed to look when being printed out at ProAm and printed.

This is my laser printed version of my album cover. The quality of this print compared to the computer screen is worse, the background of the image specifically because it looks more out of focus than it actually is. The highlights are also represented worse because the light that reflects off this record is much brighter than the original. 

 The shadows are brighter compared to the computer screen. The original image shows different shades of black but in the print it looks like the record blends in with the black background. The paper quality of this image is very weak and not durable at all meaning that you get marks on the image which makes it look worse. Compared to the image on screen this print looks like a completely different image. 

This is the ProAm print of my image. In comparison to the laser print and computer screen this is by far the best version. The sharpness quality of this print is much better than the laser print and is almost identical to the computer screened version. 

The highlights and shadows show much more clearly than the laser print; and also shows the reflection of the light perfectly. Compared to the laser print the paper quality is better because it is more durable although due to its glossy finish can show finger prints easily. In conclusion this is the best print and in comparison to the computer screen it looks the exact same. 

This is my original image from my computer; this is how it’s supposed to look when being printed out at ProAm and when using the laser printer.

This is my laser printed version of my print. The quality of this print compared to my computer screen is at a lower quality, the original image compared to this print is very different because when printed out on A3 the image looks like it has been stretched out.  The highlights of this image are of a decent quality but do not show all of them. With the shadows as well, as you can see on my computer screen the shadows are very visible but when printed out the shadows are darker. The paper quality of this image is terrible because the ink seeps through the paper and is not very durable.  

This is my ProAm print of my original album cover, In comparison to the laser print this is the best print of both. The quality of this paper is far better because it is durable and the quality of the image looks almost identical to my original image on my computer. The highlights of this image are much better than the laser print and the shadows have also improved a lot more on this print.  In conclusion compared to the laser print this ProAm print is much better.

UNIT 3 Evaluation

UNIT 3 Evaluation

The first task we did for unit 3 was research, this was on the most 3 popular decades in history; 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. For the research we had to create a visual diary for each of the decades. This included musicians, photographers and the fashion from them. We had to use two or more sources for our research which included us using the library and internet.

 The next task included me having to choose two of the three decades that I had previously researched. 
The terms to this was that I had to select at least one band/musician for each decade. The next part of this task was to find the albums that they had created in the decades that I had chosen, I had to select one for each decade and create an album cover for each of them. I then had to list the songs from both of the albums and put them next to the albums art cover. My choice was Queens Live Killers and Journey’s Greatest Hits.

 My next task was ideas and planning, this consisted of me planning out what time I would shoot, what props I would use, what lighting would be shot and the location of each shoot. This helped a great deal especially when shooting because all I had to do was shoot the way I planned. My next task included me doing risk assessments for each of my shoots. For example the kind of risks I would have in each of the environments that I would shoot in.

Task 3a was to edit our photos for the 12” vinyl covers that we had shot previously. This was probably one of the easier tasks because all I had to do was crop my images to 12”x12”. 

Task 3b was about typography, which is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language readable, legible and appealing when displayed. This was another research task in which I had to research and analyse four or more type of fonts/typography for each of my two chosen decades. For this task I used the website www.fontsinuse.com and www.dafont.com for both of my decades. I created a list of four for each of my decades; I tried to either find them or find ones similar to the typography used in those decades with photoshop.

Task 4 I had to research and write about photographers from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. The word count was set at 500 words or above for this task. I had to also write about the key issues as well around the time of those decades; such as the miner’s strike or the Vietnam War.  For my final task I had to prepare my images for ProAm. This meant I had to change the resolution from 300 dpi to 402 dpi so that it could be printed out properly. After that I had to convert my files profile to Fuji_DP2_Proam.icm and set the jpegs quality to 8. Then I sent my images to ProAm to be printed out. 
 

Task 5 is comparing and evaluating my images. In this case I had to look at both of my images, one from ProAm and another from the laser printer. I had to evaluate both images and had to compare their highlights, shadows, colour reproduction, quality and paper quality also.  After that I had to do my evaluation which is this. In conclusion all tasks were fairly easy to complete but I have learnt something in all of them.