Unit 9: Exploring Photography and
Digital Imaging
Media and Their Audiences
My final
images for this unit illustrate the brief pretty well. My images related to the
brief because I used images from Google and took digital images myself using a
digital camera. All of the images also related to the brief because each image
was media related and illustrated the relationships between the media
industries and their audience.
Out of all
my images I think the strongest were, Radio 2, Cinema 2 and Print 1. I think
Radio 2 was one of my strongest because it is well edited and a really good
idea to do with radio. Cinema 2 was another one of my stronger images because
it was again well edited and another really good idea. Print 1 was also a very
strong image, I had to get a good photo to use on this final image and I did so
this image went really well. I also think the cinema image I used was a really
good image to use for the type of shots I was aiming for. I also thought my
photography skills were great to get the images I needed for the final image. I
think all of the images were very creative but some of the technical skills I
used could of been better for example better photography and my editing could
be much improved next time around.
I think my
weakest image was Advertising 2. I thinking my editing skills with both the
images was not great the cropping around the images I cut out could of been
more detailed and with the Google image I think I stretched it too much. New media 1 was also another one of my weaker
images I think the Google image I used was too big and too pixelated I couldn’t
get my image I had taken myself to fit the size of the room without it being
pixelated. Another one of the weaker images was print 3. The image I had taken
myself was good but the magazines and the bowl I used from Google were too
small.
The way I
went about editing my images was first getting all of the images from Google
and then taking the photos I needed with a digital camera. I then cropped all
of the images from Google and from the images I had taken myself using Adobe
Photoshop. When all the images I had were cropped, I then started putting them
together to create my final images. An example of my editing was advertising 1.
I cut the person I used out from both the images I had taken myself using the
Polygonic tool and then cropped out the coca cola billboard from the Google
Image to put onto the blank billboard I also got from Google. I then added the
images I had taken myself into the final image and put them into place. Throughout
editing these images I used various tools such the polygonic tool, crop tool,
lasso tool and the magic wand tool.
I think all
of my images were suitable in terms of technical quality; none of my images
were pixelated when printed and none of them were dark so there were no
lighting problems. The resolution on all of the images was clear and worked
well with the print outs.
The feedback
I got from the audience was very positive. The audience told me that the
editing of my images was the best thing I had done throughout the whole process
of creating the images. I got the odd negative comment about my images mainly
saying they would have changed the idea of the image. With all the feedback I
got All in all my images got good feedback which I was happy about in the end.
People and Their Heroes
My final
images illustrate the brief very well. In the brief I was told to create six
images using an image of a person I knew and picture of their hero. I took all
the images I needed and used images of their heroes from Google. I created all
six of the images, so I thought in terms of what the brief said I stuck to it
very well.
For the
photographs I needed to take I got a digital camera and took several shots of
each person I needed to complete the task. I used different camera angles such
as long shots and medium shots to find the perfect shot to fit in with the
Google image of their hero.
To create
the final images I used Adobe Photoshop. I first opened the images I had taken
myself in Photoshop and edited the people out from the actual image using the
polygonic tool. I then added these images to the image of their heroes and
edited them by moving the around a bit to make it look like a real photo of the
two by using a polygonic tool. I then added all the final images to my blog
online.
I think the
quality of my final images was very good and worked very well with print out versions
of my final images. The lighting of all of my images was very good and the
resolution was also very good. All in all my images worked well with being
printed out.
The audience
really liked the final images I had created using Photoshop and I got good
feedback on all of my images. The audience thought all the ideas for the images
were very creative and all the images were edited really well. I was very
pleased with all the positive feedback I got for these six images and the very
small amount of negativity I got back and they were mostly comments about the
editing and how it could be improved. With this feedback it showed me I had
done really well with this task which showed me my hard work paid off.
Story Illustration
My final
images illustrate the brief I was given very well. In the brief I was told to
read the story ‘Mr Lovedays Little Outing’ and create four images to fit in
with a small book with the story inside. I created the four images and put them
into the book which illustrated the brief because this is what the brief told
me to do.
The first
image I chose to create was the gates of the asylum. I chose this because the
image was really easy for me to take and I thought it would be a good front
cover to have for the book. I also thought it would look even better when I
converted it to greyscale. The second image I chose was the orangery image; I
chose this because the image was once again easy to take and the image would
have looked really good and fitted in with the story really easily. The third
image I chose was the image of a suitcase. I chose this image because it fitted
in with the story and the image would a establish a really important part of
the story. I chose the fourth image of the library because it was also an establishing
shot within the story and was really easy to take.
I created the
final images by using Adobe Photoshop. I first added the images to a separate
Photoshop file and then edited the images using the polygonic tool until it was
perfect. I used the greyscale tool on all of my images to contrast with the
story. I then added the images alongside the story using the programme, Quark Xpress.
I think the
end quality of my images was really good. None of the images were stretched or
pixelated when printed out. The lighting on the images was quite dark, though
so the clarity of the images wasn’t as good as the other briefs. The print
quality of my images was fine; they all looked really good when printed out
with the booklet. All in all the images were really good quality and all turned
out the way I hoped they would.
I think my main
weakness through the unit was at first using Photoshop. I had very little
experience with it before so it took me while to get used to. My other weakness
was finding people to take the images of. I could not find many people who
wanted to do it at first but in the end I found enough to create all my images
with. I think my biggest strength was
using the digital camera. I had a lot of experience with cameras before the
unit so when it came to taking the images there were no problems trying to work
the camera. Another strength was coming up with the ideas for the images; I
came up with a lot of really good ideas which helped me work faster when it
came to mapping out the images we were going to take.
