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.