Evaluation

For this project I had to pick a location and come up with some imaginative and creative images. I was aiming to produce 10-20 pictures and make a photography book, I did achieve this but I found it hard to pick what location to do but the outcome came out well and I have achieved what I wanted to do. I decided to use my 50mm prime lens for these photos used a aperture of 1.7 to give a shallow depth of field, i also used this because then I could have a lower ISO so my pictures would be sharper. I used an ISO of 100 and 200 and used a shutter speed of 125 and 160. Before this shoot I considered what the weather would be like and the clothes I would be wearing because I didn't want any of my clothes or equipment to get  ruined on the shooting conditions. I think my choices were effective because the images came out really well, they're shape and the exposure is just right. The settings I used where right I think these where the best settings I could have picked for this shoot. I think it was effective looking at the weather because if I had gone out and it had been raining earlier during the day the light wouldn't have been as warm as it was, it was a clear day and was raining the day before which was good for the shoot because this was the look I was going for, for the meaning of the photographs. I don't think the research informed my pictures very well. I think the thing that I can probably relate most to these photos is the overlooked photographs that we shot in College. I see similarities to William Eggleston's photos (see below).

 I think the strengths of my final photographs are the composition of the photos because some of them are right in the middle and some are cropped but I considered the composition for all of these photos, the ones where some are cropped they were intentional they were not  accidental. Another strength of my photos is the exposure, none of the photos are too bright or too dark and they're all just right. I did this by using my light meter on my camera to make sure all my photos were well exposed. Another strength is my use of color, I have considered the color around the photo I have looked at something and made sure the other colors don't clash in the images. I think my areas for development are firstly to watch my time management because I seemed to only get everything done right before the deadline and puts stress on me to get stuff done. Im going to improve this by making sure I spend more time out of class doing work and as soon as I do something put it on my blog and write about it. Another thing I could improve on is being more adventurous with my editing. The editing that i have done is very simple just adjusting my brightness and contrast and selective color. I can improve this by not being so shy with this and add different effects into the photos. I enjoyed all of the mini projects we did I don't particularly have a favorite out of the few I did. But what I did learn from them all it that the settings are important everywhere you shoot for example I shot the music shoot with a 18-50mm lens and the lowest aperture was 4 and the photographs where too dark even with a ISO of 1600, so when I came to do it again I brought my 50mm prime lens and used a aperture of 1.7 my images where correctly exposed and not noisy as the ISO was on 200/400. I enjoyed them all because they where fun to shoot some where challenging but I liked the challenge I was given. I have developed better knowledge about light and dark, different lens and the areas I'm working with, because everywhere is different with different lighting different scenery different people and people moving or nothing moving at all. It is imaginative because I have thought about the story I'm trying to tell. I have tried to show warn out bits of the park and I'm trying to show as you get older younger memories fade away. I have also used different things around like puddles to take pictures of the fences and stuff around the park. I have learnt that the composition and the photographic style is very important to the image for it to look good. If the composition want any good it would be uncomfortable for the eye and for people to look at. The photographic style is important because if you took a photo in a certain way it and didn't match what you was doing it wouldn't look right it would look odd. I learnt a lot about working in a specialist location, I have learnt that setting and lens are important. If I was to do this shoot again i would have planned the timings better.

Project plan

Shoot 1- I have decided that I am going to do some photography on the street. I am going to focus on people and their facial expressions. I'm going to be waiting for the right moment in the same spot and just turning my body different angles to create better pictures. I will do this because I want capture life and what happened on a daily basis and looking further into it. The street photography I shot was in Preston town centre the history of Preston is mainly based on the civil war. In 1642 the civil war between king and parliament started. The people of preston supported the king. But in february 1643 parliamentary troops attacked preston and quickly captured it the mayor was killed in this confrontation. However the royalists recaptured preston in march 1643 but they did not hold it for long. In april 1643 the royalists were forced to leave preston. The civil war ended in 1646 and the king(Charles I) was arrested. In 1648 a Scottish army tried to bring him to his throne. They marched into Lancashire but they were met by an English army east of Preston and they were fought.

For my project I will shoot with my 18-50mm lens, iso on 400, aperture at approximately 4.5/5 and  fast shutter speed at 1/125 1/160th of a second in order to avoid motion blur. I am going to take the photos around 12pm when the sun is at its highest to get a warmer light. The equipment I'm going to use is just my camera and a 18-50mm lens and myself. The health and safety considerations are the people I may be photographing without them knowing, I may get confronted and have to think about taking the photos slyly. Another thing I need to consider is the angle I take the pictures on and if I'm going to be going up high. The clothing I'm gonna wear is everyday clothes because I don't want to stand out taking photos of people I want to be subtle. I have looked at the weather forecast and its said to be sunny but cold.

Edit

I have decided to edit my plan. I have decided in going to do some photography around my home town leyland. I am going to focus on the parks and the things you would love as a kid on the streets. Im going to go out on a bright day and going to take photos of a play park. Im then going to walk around and think as if I was the younger me and take pictures of things I loved. For example puddles I used to love jumping I'm puddles as a child. I will do this because I want to take a old withered park and try and get across that as you grow older memories ware away. 
The main history of leyland is Leyland trucks. Leyland is 5 miles south of Preston and was home to Leyland Motors once the 5th largest producer of trucks and buses in the world. It is now owned by the US company PACCAR and assembles 14,000 trucks a year at Leyland near Preston. A whole series of buses familiar to people all over the UK came from this factory. The single deck Leyland Lion, Tiger, Panther, Leopard. The double deck Titan PD series. Not to forget the Atlantean a Leyland design that radically changed the shape of buses all over the world. There were trucks as well the Beaver, Comet, Octopus and Hippo. Got to be careful though as specialist bus body builders used Leyland chassis so buses with the Leyland badge were often only the chassis. The last Leyland bodied buses were made in 1955. The company started in a back yard in Leyland, Lancashire, and grew through its fine products, business sense and gradual consolidation. At its peak the name Leyland covered almost all the remaining British owned vehicle manufacturing companies. 
For my project I will shoot with my 50mm lens, ISO on 100 or 200, Aperture on approximately at 1.7 and shutter speed at approximately 1/125. in order to avoid motion blur. I am going to take the photos around 2pm when there is a warm light. The equipment I'm going to use is, my camera and a 50mm lens also myself. The health and safety considerations are the weather and if its muddy I may slip and hurt myself to stop this I'm going to make sure I wear sensible footwear. Another thing I need to consider is parents thinking I'm taking photos of their children when I'm not so I am going to take the pictures when nobody is on the park. The clothing I'm going to wear is a warm coat as I will be outside wellys, and long pants. This is because it is most likely going to be cold and the floor to be wet. I have checked the weather report and it is said to be cold and wet.

Shoot 9

I went to the gig that a college band was preforming at college in the theatre. I used my 50mm lens with a shutter speed of 1/160 and a ISO of 400. I found this shoot easy because of my lens. I enjoyed this because there was music whilst doing it and it was fun to be around.

Shoot 8

I went to my dance class and took photos of my sister. It was quite tricky as they where moving fast and it was a dark room. I used a aperture of 1.7 and a shutter speed of 1/80 and a ISO of 400. Some of them turned out quite dark and I had to fiddle with my settings quite a lot. I do like the sharpness and the quality of some of the photos but I don't want to do this for my final shoot.

Shoot 7

This shoot didn't go very well I had my 18-50mm lens and the room was very dark. My settings where on 1600 ISO, Aperture of 4.5 and a shutter speed of 1/60. I would improve this shoot by using a different lens which is more practical. Some of the photos are blurred because my shutter speed wasn't fast enough but I couldn't put it any faster because then the images would be very dark.

Shoot 6

I really enjoyed doing this shoot and like the outcome of it all. I think my composition is very strong in the images, not all of the images are a simple composition. The images that went a simple composition work because I have cropped into them purposely to give them a different look. I thinks some of the pictures don't look quite right with the composition I have tried so I'm not going to use them I also think that some of them are I bit to simple, for example the bin picture isn't very good because everything in the picture is green and it wasn't a good use of color. I like the puddle photos because they're a lot more creative I had planned to take more of these but there was no more puddles around the park so I am going to go back and take some more photos.

Shoot 4 re-shoot

This is a re-shoot from shoot 4 last time the pictures where really dark and grainy so I my 50mm lens and re did it. This time the pictures turned out really well. The composition is good and the images are a lot sharper and less noisy then they where. Overall I think this was more of a success then last time. There are some things that still went wrong with this shoot to do with the focus and a little bit of blur. But still a good shoot.