My Comments on my own Photography

Overall I think that all of my photos have good and bad points, I don’t think any of them are perfect but none of them are really bad. I think that you can see from the beginning of my blog to where it is now that I have improved, weather its to do with the lighting, the composition or how I have edited it in Photoshop. I have included some photos that i am proud of this year also as examples.

I think that my strengths within photography are:
Putting the photo together, getting all the components within the photo to complement or to enhance each other.

Being able to edit the photos to quite a high standard.

Learning more about my camera and what it can do as through out this course I have used my own camera so it has helped enhance my ability to use my camera.

I think that my weaknesses would be:
Not knowing the terminology as well as I could but I know that it takes time.

I think I sometimes get stuck using certain types of effects; I would like to expand on this.

Through out this course I think that I have developed many skills within the photography and the technological side. With in photography I feel that I am now able to compose a photo to a high standard no matter weather it is a portrait, macro, landscape or for a advert. I now have an understanding of different terminology, I still need to look at my glossary from time to time but I know that I’ll get there eventually. I think I have also learned to put my opinions aside, when it comes to clients and going with what the client wants rather then going with your opinion, such as I’m doing the photography for my mums sweet shop and its more to what she wants her photos to show then what I think may work. When it comes to the technological side of it I know that I am defiantly still learning but I am now understanding that a shutter is the part of the camera that covers the lens and controls how much light is passed through and that aperture is a opening within the camera lens which is where the light passes through. I now have an understanding that can only improve.

                                                                     

How I intend to develop these skills is to really keep practicing and trying out new angles with the camera and playing around with the settings on both the camera and on programs such as adobe. I want to add more of my photos to my portfolio and to get a professionals opinion at some stage in the future.  

I don’t really have any photographers that inspire me, yet that is but I do have many graphic designers that inspire me when it comes to the layout, their use of colour, how much detail there is or how little, the use of angles and lighting and also how you show emotion within the work getting the viewer to see what emotion you wanted them to see. I am more into the editing part of photography how you can manipulate and change a photo just by a few clicks.

I think my photos have met my expectations, as I didn’t really have any to start off with, this is because I had never really done any professional like photography before only really the holiday photos sort of thing. But now it has really opened my eyes I really do think now before I take a photo it’s really cool. So I guess now my expectations are to improve on what I have achieved to far and to enhance my skills.  

How my photos compare to professional photography, I think my photos are of a high quality but I still have a way to go when it come to the professional standard. I believe that I am on the right track to getting up to the professional standard but seeing as I only really started photography this year I’m happy with the standard of my work.  

Evaluation - Subject Terminology

Here are some words that we have used over the past year and their meanings:

Shutter: the shutter is the part of the camera that covers the lens. it is the part of the camera that controls how much light is to pass through and for what length of time.

Aperture: this is a opening within the camera lens, a space where light can pass through, it opens and contracts to let certain amounts of light in.

JPEG: A jpeg is a file format that you can save your work as. It is one of the most common ways to save your work as because most computers can view these files, it also makes it easier to upload it to the internet.

Composition: Is the arrangement of the visual elements, how the photo is put together, why you want things a particular way.

White Balance: is the process of removing un realistic colour, making the person look natural or  un natural.

Landscape: A landscape image is the opposite to macro this focuses on the bigger picture of your overall surrounding rather then just on one particular thing. genuinely landscape is pictures of countryside, nature e.g. hills, mountains and trees.

Macro: A macro image focuses on the smaller objects such as insects or flowers, showing of their detail and making them look bigger then what they actually are. In a macro shot it only focuses on one particular thing unlike in a landscape photo it focuses on many things.

Portrait: A portrait image focuses on the face of a person or animal, the actual focus of the photo is normally the eyes.

Cropping: cutting out particular parts of the image that you may or may not like.

Contrast: Makes the object stand out more and genuinely makes it look unrealistic this is by changing the colour or lighting slightly.

Sepia: This is a colour tone that is genuinely pale brown/grey that makes the image look older.

Diffusing Light: This light is softer light, natural defusers of light include things such as clouds. a man made defuser is something like lampshades.

Hard Light: makes the image look brighter and gives it more of a contrast unlike soft light which gives you more of a shadow.

Three Point Lighting: having three sources of light focusing on one object taking away all shadow.

Photo Journalism: This is capturing a image to do with a real event  present in the news at the time. It could be of a natural disaster, a war or even a celebration.

Juxtaposition: This is when two opposite people, events or objects are in the same image that you wouldn't normally see together.

Representation: This is how something is presented or portrayed it can be by what it means or by how it looks.

Connotation: This is how the audience interoperate the image.