Evaluation

Evaluation

At the start of this module I was pretty unaware about Hasselblad cameras and capture one, one thing I had some background in was studio work and simple forms of lighting, but nothing compared to the professional facilities CCAD have in their studios.  

Throughout the project I didn’t seem to have one certain direction I just looked at getting the shots I needed and I wanted the images I had taken to stand out to me. I think this was mainly because I was unsure about the camera and I wanted to get a feel for how the photos would look opposed to a certain theme like other people in the class.

I started out with little experience of the studio and lighting so I had to get comfortable with this before attempting to start shooting.

Once I was comfortable with this I started out by taking shots of Courtney, Lauren and Ben.  I then went on in another shoot to photograph Jodie and then again Ben.

I ended up choosing 4 images, two from the first shoot of Courtney and two from the last shoot of Ben. I chose 4 instead of 3 because I felt the four images I chose went together well. In the end I sent my images of to digital lab and got them printed in gloss without a boarder.

My final outcome does meet the requirements of the brief I feel and If I was to improve my work I think I would have given myself more time to know the camera, studio lighting and also capture one for editing. So that I could achieve the best photos of my ability with the tools I was given.

Some of the problems I encountered during this project was to do with capture one at the start I wasn’t familiar with the software and alongside the project whilst taking photos we had to learn this new software and this proved difficult on more than one occasion.

But this leads me to say I have learnt and I am still learning a new skill from this project.

The assignment challenged me by putting my completely out of my depth. I was new to pretty much all aspects of the equipment we needed to use to complete this project but this I a good thing as it makes you want to succeed.

If I were to do something differently I would look more into what I was trying to achieve with my portrait shots. I would have liked to make them look like they had a theme opposed to them just fitting well together. I also think I would have given my self more time to edit my portraits instead of leaving them until the last minute.

Hasselblad.

Hasselblad

For this studio module we had to create 3 or more portrait shots using a studio and a Hasselblad camera with a digital back. I had never used this camera before so this project was a massive first for me. 

At first the idea of this and learning how the studio lights work and other various things like capture one was quite stressful because it all seemed complicated. 

In the end i did discover that although it was slightly difficult it wasn't as bad as i thought and i ended up really enjoying using the Hasselblad, the studio and capture one.

Background info about the Hasselblad camera

The Hasselblad camera was created by a man called Victor Hasselblad AB who at the time was a Swedish manufacturer of medium format cameras and other photographic equipment in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

My opinion

After using this camera i do think i like this as much or maybe more than a normal digital camera. I love how you have to stand over the camera and look down into it to see the image. The only downfalls i felt came with the camera was that i couldn't see how well in focus the image i was taking was until i saw it come up on the computer screen and it was some what difficult to position the model central in the frame. 

Over all i really loved the camera and it actually makes me want to buy one myself and try it out. 

The final 4 edited portraits.

David Bailey

David Bailey

David Bailey is one of my all time favorite photographers. 

He is someone i have used for examples and sometimes just for inspiration in my work through the last 4 years of school. 

I love his portrait work. The portraits are maily black and white and the majority have light backgrounds either being light gray or bright white, although some do have darker backgrounds.

The subjects in the images are only shown in really limited amounts of colors, mainly being just black and white but sometimes there are slight gray tones. 

I like how his work has limited colors and sharp high contrast colors its almost iconic and makes the work memorable for that reason. 

I honestly believe i would be able to point out David Baileys work out of a sea of others because of how unique it looks to me. 

I have chosen three examples of David Bailey's work to talk about.:

As well as showing the high contrast images i was talking about i wanted to throw in an example of an image by david that has lots of different tones and isn't that high in contrast. 

This image to me looks like a typical portrait photo. 

The stance of the man being on a slight angle, the almost blank expression and the neutral coloured background. Of course not all portrait have to follow this format but this is what i would say a school portrait photo is like and this image really reminds me of that. 

I wanted to include this because this is an image i have actually used in part of my coursework at the start of my A Level studies. I used it as a transcription so i actually had to try and recreate this image which did prove harder than i initially thought.

This is a perfect example of a high contrast piece from david The bright white background teamed with the harsh deep black colour.

This is a beautiful image. As well as the high contrast in this image making skin her effortlessly mix with the background, which in return makes her features such as her mouth, eyes and hair stand out massively, there is the added feature of using what i am assuming is a fan to blow her hair out. 

All of these features together make this a really beautiful image in my opinion.