Evaluation

Our task were to take photos of nature, decay and of school and to edit them and present them, we had to choose either one of nature or decay and i chose nature, so I took photos of different kinds of plants, animals and flowers, then I uploaded them to my blog, I put them into photoshop were i edited them using a wide variety of tools to make them more appealing and to show my skills and took screen shots of the first stage, mid editing and then the final piece and put them all into a document were i explained the processes and uploaded and presented them, for the photo essay I chose the topic of scooters like vespas and lambrettas and I chose lambrettas and took a wide variety of photos of my fathers lambrettas and his work shop showing all the spare parts and tools used in dealing with the scooter, I them put all the images together into a photo board type piece and upload them to my blog, For the school brochure task I took photo of the school and pupils in a positive mood doing formal and work-hard mood to show the good side of the school and like the nature photos edited them to make them more attractive and uploaded them, and use the more suitable ones for the brochure. I enjoyed taking nature photos as it was very interesting and it was fun to choose what was a good picture and good angle, it was enjoyable to check the photos I had taken and be proud of the good ones, I disliked the photoshopped editing as it was confusing and stressful to use and was very awkward and troubling to use.

This was my favorite photo that has also been photoshopped.

This is a similar image that has been proffessionally done.

My best photo compared to this professional photo, they have similar angles and they have similar effects with the sun in the background and the type of shot is similar because they are both using over the shoulder shots which creates a good effect because usually the main subject is of a good standard quality and the background is half blurred, comparing these two photo's gives me great confidence at photography because i can link similarities between the two photos which one of them was taken by a professional.

My least favourite photo

This is a similar professional photo

Comparing these two photos my least favourite to a similar photo, show why this is my least favourite because the one i took was meant to be advertising the school but it makes it look dark and scrubby when on the professional one she's smiling and looks like she's enjoying her self when on mine he looks depressed onto the shot comparison there kind of similar but the professional one, but the professional one has got better qualities.

I was independent in taking photos, I did get some assistance, but i took some photos and kept working on the ones i liked finding better angles and positions until I was finally happy, I took into account the positioning and what i was taking a photo of and worked out how it would look before i went and took the photo so that i knew what i was looking for and eventually the photos began getting more nicer looking and more professional.

I learned a new large variety of photoshop tools such as liquify and filter which are very useful tools i have not used before which came in very useful as i used them in almost all my photo edits and turned out to be the most useful tool, they were very useful and i am now more adapted to using photoshop with these useful editing tools which helped improve my pictures and skills on the software.

I used flicker and blogger to share my photos and present them as they are popular sites for viewing presentation and images, and it is a very good way to spread them around the internet, these sites were my best thought on sharing images and worked out very well in explaining and presenting my work around the web.
To get my feedback i used a website called "freedback" this is a site where you can create a form with unlimited questions and have people answer them i transferred it to my blog by copying the HTML of the questionnaire/form and pasted it in a blog post, with my feedback i gained knowledge on what i should change on my blog such as calm edits down and add more photos etc.. i also received a lot of positive feedback this improved my confidence in this subject matter and unit.