Evaluation
During the introduction process I have
gained a few skills with photography and Photoshop. Before the lessons on
learning how to use the camera I had minimal skills on how to use it, since the
lessons I’ve leant about manual focus and auto focus. There is a switch on the
camera where it says manual and auto, if you leave the switch on auto it means
that when you take a photo using the camera that the camera will automatically
focus itself on the object you’re trying to take a photo of, this means that
you don’t need to do any work. Manual focus is where you will need to
physically adjust the focus accordingly to suit the object your taking a photo
of, to do this there is two rings on the lens of the camera one is the zoom and
one is the focus, if you just keep twisting and changing these the focus and
zoom will adjust until it is correct for the object. When taking a photo there
are two different modes you could take a picture in, landscape or portrait.
Because I was taking images for a magazine cover I needed a portrait photo, to
do this I simply tuned the camera on its side so that when I took the photo it
would be portrait. Although firstly I did take some photos landscape when they
should have been portrait until I realised I would be using them for my magazine
cover so I had to take some portrait photos. Not all of the images I took were
in focus because I wasn’t entirely sure on how to use manual focus; I believe
that I did produce some decent images that were in focus though. I would of
liked to retake my photos because I think I have more of an understanding now
of how I could take better photos to improve my work because now that I have
experienced designing and creating a magazine cover I know what is expected. I
didn’t know about the rule of thirds until after I had taken the photos,
although I think the photo that I had used did conform to the rule because the
eye line was on the third line. When I designed y magazine cover I imagined it
being quite bland, preferably a white backdrop, but when I actually took the
photos outside I used a fence as a background and when I imported it onto the
computer and started to work on it I realized it was quite dark and I had to
adjust the colour of my cell lines to contrast with the dark background
otherwise you couldn’t read them. I don’t think my people skills got in the way
of the photography; I feel everyone was onboard and keen to help each other
out. I’ve added some photos below that I didn’t use from the photo shoot I did.
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