Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice

Selection of final images & review (P4, M4, D4)

Image No:

Theme or focus of image & reasons for choiceThe overall theme of my images is to show the natural side to Salford quays. I wanted to bring across the areas that people miss and don’t take into consideration. An example of this would be the image above this shows a grave yard behind media city. This is a part of media city which not many people have seen and has gone un noticed by passing people. The reason I went for this theme is so that people may be attracted to the natural part instead of the extremely modernised media city and lowery. The focus of the image above is the graveyard this is behind media city. The building In the 5th image is a quirky building with a view to make it iconic. I feel the theme of my images came through quite strong however in some images seem to lose the focus of the theme such as in image 4 the image is of a popular area and this is not what my theme is.

Techniques UsedIn my images the ISO was ok however it could have been higher as my images were very bright. I feel like the shutter speed was on for too long as some off my Images are very blurry. I did ad a blur effect however the original image was blurry as I didn’t focus the camera properly. When taking my images I used a tripod a so my images weren’t extremely blurry and my images would look more professional. In my images I used the rule of thirds so that the main focus point was the part of Salford quays which I wanted the viewers to see. Also when taking my images I went to different heights so that my images were not just from a worms eye view and then the images show off the area in a better light.

Strengths & suggested improvementsIn my images I thought that a strength was the way my images show off Salford quays from different angles and heights. The reason I thought this was because off the way that some of my images looked. I used survey monkey to get feedback on my images and people said that the different heights of my images show off Salford quays very well. One of my questions was do you feel that my images are edited

correctly? However this turned out to be one of my weaknesses. During the editing stage I changed the images quite allot because I tried to go for a futuristic approach. However I feel that this didn’t come through in my images because 70% of people thought that my images were over edited. Another strength to my images was that my images were extremely varied as they showed off a wide area of Salford quays this made my images look professional.

Editing detailsWhen editing my images I loaded them into Photoshop 1 by 1. I then continued to change the contrast and brightness of the image to make the image look more appealing. My intension was to go for a futuristic look so that the area looks more interesting. However it came out wrong because I over edited them and they ended up looking really bad. I added a blur effect around the edges because then the area that I want people to see stands out more.

Capture LogSetting Shutter Speed ISO Aperture

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Manual

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-1/320sec

Exposure time-

ISO – 800

ISO –800

ISO –800

ISO –800

ISO –800

ISO –800

ISO – 800

ISO –800

ISO –800

ISO -800

Aperture- 4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

Aperture-4.8

1/320sec

1/320sec