Technologies

I have learnt lighting techniques, the definete need for higher resolution images and how to frame effectively to create interesting compositions that keep the reader interested. Even when photographing I had to consider angles and knew that high angles would connote looking down on the person making them seem inferior or weak which is not what I wanted to create. The locations were difficult to get right however, I photographed mostly outside by brick walls- rich of colour and texture making an interesting location. I have developed my skills with photo shop through trial and error. This screengrab is just to display the tools surrounding the main canvas. This includes the box of tools, the layer panel and the history panel. Before this project I had only used photoshop a couple of times and only to do very specific tasks. I have improved heavily with changing levels, hue and saturation to create exciting colours, tones and textures within my images. I am really pleased with my polaroid effect images because they look quite glossy which contrasts with my running theme showing it doesn’t fit in which could be a representation of my target audience to the rest of society. Photo shop has enabled me to produce higher quality products but still with the anti-commercial appearance because of the linear burn effects. Here is a screen shot of photoshop as i developed my front cover.

This is the logo from the website 'Flickr' which I used to annotate certain pictures and pieces of my work. I again had never used this website and after some brief instruction I found this website very simple and I liked the idea of being able to present annotation in a different way. A good thing about this website is that it enables a way to present data without it having to be in block text, although it is harder to fit all the information onto the small pictures. I have been able to develop my skills through the use of Flickr which has allowed me to evaluate my own work visually rather than through written analysis.
















I am also pleased with my time management within the coursework assignment because I have produced my three products with a range of discarded attempts as well (which I have blogged to show development). They are all to a high standard and have been at some points much further ahead of others in terms of blogging and producing extra drafts for improvements. Here is the logo of the 'Blogger' website. This is the site I have been using to blog my work. I have never used this website before or even made a blog so I was very new to this, however I found the website very helpful and easy to use. This way of presenting work is good because it keeps it all in one place and enables the use of websites like Flickr. However when using a website like this you do do loose out on things like writing it all in an essay format, which would probably enabling you to go into more detail about things.