Final Evaluation

Throughout this project I aimed to capture the essence of location within photography. The way in which I captured and displayed location within photography. In order to do this I completed a series of tasks which allowed me to explore location photography and how location has a large impact upon a photograph and how it is taken. The tasks which I completed within this project helped me gain a better understanding of location photography and how the location a photograph is taken in makes a big impact on the photograph itself. During the first task which I completed I was asked to visit a number of locations, both indoor and outdoor, that fit into certain genres such as historical, fashion and travel. I found that some elements of this task were much easier than others as finding things to photograph within the travel genre in an outdoor location proved to be easy as there are a lot of cars, buses and other modes of transport on the roads however I found this genre much more difficult to complete within the indoor location as it is not common to fins things such as cars in an indoor location. This task taught me that different locations are more suited to some genres more than others and that some genres within photography are more suited to indoor locations than outdoor locations and vice versa.  The second part of this task required me to choose an inanimate object and take this to the locations which I visited during the first part of this task. The aim of this task was to make the location the main priority within the photograph. However, this did not necessarily mean that the location would always be the main focus of the photograph, it just meant that the location of the photograph would be the only thing to change from one photograph to the next as the main subject would always be the inanimate object which I chose to photograph. This part of the task taught me the importance of location within photography and how not every location will be suitable for each photograph which you choose take as the object which is the subject of the photograph will not always fit in within the location you have chosen to photograph in. This part of the task has highlighted how important it is to choose the right location when planning a photoshoot. The second task which I completed during this project was all about the composition of photographs. During this task I looked at compositional techniques such as rule of thirds and different angles such as high, low and birds eye angles. While completing this task I learned that the composition of a photograph is very important as this determines where the eye is directed to when looking at a photograph. The composition of a photograph determines which part of the photograph is seen first and which parts go unnoticed until later. Once I had explored the composition of photography and researched location within photograph, I was then asked to start the panning for my final show reel. I completed my planning in two parts, I first wrote out a written plan, explaining ideas which I had, then I later expanded on this by creating a story board of my ideas. Within this story board I roughly sketched out how I wanted each of the photographs I was planning to take to look and underneath each small sketch I wrote a little about the location of each photograph, the lighting I was planning on using and what was included within the photograph if the sketch was not too clear. I felt the need to put a small explanation of what the photograph would be of underneath the sketch as I feel that I lack a bit of artistic ability and find it difficult to draw pictures clearly. Once I had completed this, I filled out a risk assessment sheet then completed the photoshoot which I had planned. After this I was asked to research royalty free music and in doing this I found that royalty free music is music without copyright meaning it is legal to use in any sort of publication without any repercussions. After I had completed a bit of research on this matter I then found a piece of royalty free music which I likes and processed to put together my showreel. To create my showreel I used photoshop to combine all of the images I had taken along with the track or royalty free music which I had also found to fit with the theme of my showreel. Putting this showreel together was a new experience for me as before this project, I had never used photoshop in such a way so each step that I took to complete this showreel was new and something which I had to learn. Once I had got the hang of creating the showreel, I found it relatively easy to do as I only found it a bit tricky in the beginning as it was a new skill which I had to learn. Within this project I feel that I have improved my time management skills from the last project as I have not found it too stressful to manage to meet deadline this time. If I could redo this project, one thing I would change would be that I would have spent more time looking for better locations to take photographs in during the first couple of tasks which I completed as I feel that they are a little dull as they are just locations in and around the centre of Bradford. If I was to re do this project I would try to branch out a little so I could photograph some new locations which I have not photographed before. This would add extra interest to the photoshoots which I created and add more interest to m project in general. Overall I feel that this project was successful as I completed each of the tasks provided to the best o0f my ability and thoroughly enjoyed learning about the importance and significance of location photography.