[Mark] Photography Evaluation

Introduction The assignment I was set with was to bring in household products to create a montage of images. The task is a good starter as it allows us to get into photography and learn skills we will need for future projects.

Research The types of images I wanted to take were those showing off the new skills I learnt such as: rules of thirds, leading lines and so on. The images that inspired me were those found in ‘[Mark] Advertising Ideas’ on my Blogger. This style of photography really caught my eye and motivated me to make something similar. I took the tower with other small towers coming out of the building and manipulated the image to make it unique by putting cigarette’s into the tower.

Characteristics of Freaky/Unusual photography The type of photography known as ‘freaky’ or ‘unusual’ is that which isn’t everyday art. It has a twist – maybe gruesome or montaged to make it unusual. This can be done by having good levels of symmetry to make it freaky maybe a ghost on spiral staircase. A secondary technique which could make something freaky is a low light level on a picture. It is sometimes making something bright and loud but maybe messing with the pixels or selecting a row of pixels and shifting one to the left or right to distort the image.

Ideas The ideas I came up were do-able however were a little more time consuming and that was time which I did not have. I went with the image which I felt was the most creative and most do-able in the time frame that was set for me. The outline of my idea was to go out into Nottingham and take a picture of a skyscraper. Unfortunately I couldn’t go take this picture so I found an external source (google) and placed onto Photoshop.

Photography When taking the photo I had to take into account several things – The location. This is difficult as it would require me standing on the road and would be dangerous to me so I would need to wait for the traffic to pass before capturing the image. Time - I would also need to consider the time avaliable for me to do this; Can i get all the photographing, editing, blogging and the evalution done before the deadline on the 16th @ 5:00pm.

Examples of work

Next Time If i was to repeat this assignment I would definetly spend more time getting the evidence as this time I spent more time editing and capturing the images. I would also like for us as students to be allowed to run off our own theme of photography rather then being told what type we need to make. For example: I am into skateboarding - so I would rather have my input on what photography I would like to take - I know this project was free reign however it had to be based off an image I found on the internet that was freeky or unique. I have an idea for this is I was to repeat it.

Change? If I had to choose anything to change it would again be that of allowing students to input and create what they want to - not only will it get them more involved it will also allow the teachers to know what kind of things we like and can plan future projects around things like that (if the majority are into one thing).