Final Evaluation

The use of Photoshop, Lightroom, and other editing programs have given photography a new look and style. These programs give photographers freedom in their work, give a solid backbone in advertisement and graphics. 

Photographers I have looked at like Erik Almas can use photoshop to enhance their world of photography. It also helped me to understand what process and techniques I can use to produce a similar range of photographs. 

Today's hand held generation make for an easy market to express your work. Social media sites like Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook and others make for excellent advertisement platforms, used already by keen photographers around the globe.

Throughout this unit, my skills in photoshop have increased. The  accessibility in making images creative and expressive can now be done from home, benefiting future work. 

What I have enjoyed throughout this unit was learning how to combine physical hard copy creations with digitally imposed ones to adapt them in photoshop.

Aspects that I have found hard during this unit was the scanning. This is because I shoot heavily in film. Transferring 35mm film across yet keeping the quality was challenging.

I regularly updated the blog, adding and removing text to make it longer and filling it with stronger information. 

In my free time I regularly seek out and research photographers and there styles. Because of this, I did not seem to find the research a struggle. 

I believe I have experimented enough In my blog. Combining digital and film, achieving realistic effects to my photo's. 

For my finals I have chosen "Decay and Destruct". I believe that they are strong and powerful words that carry great meaning. Easy to express with effect. 

My ideas were to create images that represent some form of advertisement. To do this I had researched into magazine covers.

For inspiration I had looked into the work of Erik Almas and Ritchard Moose. I love these photographers one for their photoshop skills, and the other for their film ability.

The techniques used by Ritchard Mosse really intrigue me, for example his shoot using 'inferred film'. This was a conflict based exhibition shot in the Amazon rain forest, changing nothing but the green dense vegetation into a neutral pink. 

I am happy with my finals as they have a combination of techniques  and process that connect them to the words chosen. 

I feel that the theme's "Distruct and decay" are well presented and expressed in my piece. 

If I had the chance to re-create my finals, I would do so using more actions in photoshop. This would allow them to carry better detail and become more eye catching. 

I believe that my blog is very personalised to myself. The layout and theme really express my work nicely, given a more individual style. I also feel that it has shown my digital ability well. 

Overall I have enjoyed this topic and can't wait to begin another.