Final Project evaluation

Final Project Evaluation

In this final project evaluation I am going to talk about the tasks, the outcome out this project and what I think overall and would improve in the future. 

Our overall project was based on new and old architecture and communicating a message thought a photograph. We had to go out and experiment with different photography techniques and try to communicate a message to the viewer.  We had to learn different techniques on Photoshop such as overlaying textures which really help when your trying to communicate a message because you can put two photos together. 

I had a lot of fun trying out the camera techniques such as juxtaposition, reflection and form, all these little things really impacted my work and change the outcome massively, all these little techniques can change your work for the best and they are so simple and really easy to do, you just need to remember to take time and not rush when your out taking photographs. 

I loved learning all these new photo-shop techniques,well their not new. Only to me! Such as overlaying textures, this is my favourite its so simple and you can do so much with it. I also really liked the pinhole effect, photo joiners and bringing panoramas together. I do find the Photoshop techniques harder to remember because of all the steps, but i also take screen shots to help me remember and to look back on in the future. 

Though doing this project i have realised that I prefer the older buildings, I think they have so much more detail and a lot more interesting to look at and photograph. A lot of the older buildings are grate for the techniques, such as overlaying textures, form and abstract photos, which are always interesting to try and capture and i think these are really interesting for the viewer, they have so much more to look at in one photo. I do like the newer buildings but i think they are a lot more restrictive, they are all focused around glass and i think this works well with reflection but its gets a bit repetitive, like your photographing the same building  all the time and i lose interest.  

We have also been on little trips and days out around Bradford and Leeds, on these trips we were using film cameras, colour and black and white film. I have previously used black and white film before in other projects and i have always enjoyed using the film cameras, but this project was the first time of me using colour film. I loves the final outcome of my negatives ones I scanned them in, the quality was so much better then expected, and in some they photos were grainy which i loved because its gives my photos this 90s feel definitely the one wear i am in the shopping centre.  

We did get to go in to the black and white dark room, which i have been in again previously but this time i got to experiment with different darkroom techniques such as solarization, burning negatives and many more. We didn't get a lot of time in their unfortunately because i would have liked to do more prints in their and try out more techniques. 

we didn't get to into the colour dark room which i was really excited about because i haven't yet been in there but hopfully next year or in the next project i will get another chance, but for the meantime i have been scanning my colour negatives in at a high quality so that i could get them printed professionally at a high quality for my final photos. 

overall I enjoyed this project a lot, i have learnt a lot of techniques and ways to develop and improve my work. Even if i don't get onto the second year i am going to use these techniques and skills though out my life for my own personal work. 

If i was to do this project again i would plan my time a lot more better and take more time organising my work. I would definitely do more work at home now i have invested in a laptop, i will be able to get more work done in a shot amount off time and to a better level because i have more time to concentrate on it.