Final Evaluation Of Exam

FINAL EVALUATION

For the mock exam I was asked to create an outcome based on all the techniques we had learnt over the past few weeks to do with light manipulation, still life , portraiture and the photoshop experiments and enhancing we had done. We could look at any subject we desired  such as fashion photography, landscape and architecture etc, one it related to lighting and light manipulation. Originally when first looking at the brief I had no idea which route I wanted to take. I knew that landscaping had always been my strong point, however I was torn between doing fashion photography and landscape photography. I did some research into fashion photographers and I came across William Klein, Cartier Bresson and other photographers including an all time favorite Nigel Barker. 

(Nigel Barker)

( Cartier Bresson)

(William Klein)

These three were to be play a big influence on me if I was to choose fashion photography, and another photographer Ansel Adams as a influence to landscape photography. 

(Ansel Adams)

I had decided in the end that I wanted to do both landscaping and portraiture for my exam and combine the two ideas together to create a strong piece. It took a while to get there as I had a few hiccups in the process and finding the final outcome. My main hiccup was finding what action I should take with the photos. Whether I was to double expose the landscape photos and the portraiture photos together or let them stand on their own. In the end I decided to let each individual picture stand on their own and with a little help of photoshop using the curves tool to enhance the contrast and a play with the hue and saturation and the colour contrast tools, I'm really proud of the outcome. If I could change anything I would have changed the background for the outdoor photoshoot. Considering that both my models faced the college building instead of facing the distant snowy scenery, it kinda detracted from how great it could be.

I really enjoyed this project, my keen eye helped to utilise my surroundings to my advantage and create very promising outcomes. I'm extremely proud and I would definitely do this again. With some coaching on how to fully use my camera to get the best shots I can possibly get I would try this project again in my own time.