Unit 9 Evaluation

The task that i was given was to create 3 different purposes which which where Nature or decay, school brochure and a photo essay. We where given the option of deciding what we wanted each of the purposes to be about. For instance  chose to do Nature. We where given time to go out and take pictures for the individual purposes. I took pictures of flowers outside in the fields, for the school brochure we have to take pictures of what the school looks like its like but from different angles when using the camera.For the photo essay i decided to do do it on the school boarding house. The task that we were given was to present our work in a Presentation, blogging it onto our blogger as  video. Some of the nature picture presenting them on flicker.

In the Nature and Decay i chose to do my work on Nature because its something that is more about things that are like so i took pictures of flowers, trees as they are things that symbolize Nature. I wanted to show the audience the skills that i can use when taking a picture with the camera and using photoshop to change the layout that an image can turn from just being plain into something that can be displayed with more color or some simple editing that can be done to it i was trying to interpret the pictures in the most interesting way. 

The Pictures that i took in my School Brochure i decided to take pictures of areas of the school that i thought would make the school look more interesting. I took pictures of places such as the PE lessons, People walking in the corridor in between lessons. The purpose of the Brochure was to attract new students who may want to attend or parents who are looking for a school to send their students to attend.
The purpose of the Photo essay was to take pictures of a curtain topic and the topic that i picked was the boarding house. I picked the boarding house becasuse many people said that they didnt know about the boarding and because i live here i though that it would be able to get an inside view of what people do in the everyday life in the boarding house.

The Task that i enjoyed the most was taking pictures of the boarding house and being able to use photoshop to turn it into the way that i think the image would look best in. Also when i was taking pictures of the students in the boarding it was a very interesting. Doing the topic of the boarding house made it more intestesting for me because its something that very different for me to do. I love living in the boarding because i get to meet different people and I wanted the audience to be able to see what a typical day in the boarding house is liike.

The one thing that i least enjoyed out of all the tasks was doing the annotations because i just didnt know what to write or say i found it very difficult annotating the pictures that i had already taken. I found it hard remembering what exactly i had done it was also so hard trying to put what i had done into words written down.

The bottom picture is my own version of a school brochure. At the top is a professional picture when comparing the two images i would say that they both portray the school in a good way. They both look appealing to the audience. The thing that makes them both different is that the professional picture does not have a lot of pictures it only has a few its just that it has been used on the page more than once where as the brochure that i created i also didn't use a lot of pictures but i just enlarged them so that they look bigger. 

I improved my photography skills because before i did this i had no idea how to change the settings on a camera that well. At the start i had to ask my friends and teacher how by using the camera can cause a different compared to when using it on the just the normal settings. It took time and constant learning how to do different things and in the end i was aware of what was needed to be done. 

My skills in editing improved as i was learning new things on youtube about to make effects and change a picture's layout. In the beginning i found it so hard because i didn't know what i was doing especially when i was editing the Nature images i didn't know what to do in order to make the image look better. I then learnt about angle cropping, how to use the shortcuts on the keyboards and found out information from a friend new photoshop skills. 

I presented my work in different ways this i because i wanted my work to have a wide range presentations for instance i displayed my work on flickr. photoshop and powerpoint. 

I created a questionnaire online so that people could answer them and give me a feedback on what they thought about my work so i passed it on to my friends and classmates to answer the questions. I managed to get out of my questionnaire is what people liked and what i could have done to improve my work.