Final Evaluation

Final Evaluation.

I think Overall this Project was a very interesting and quite a fun project, Throughout this project my understanding of not only camera lenses, how they work and different techniques you can do with them and my understanding of portraits and how best to take them has been broadened, My idea was to take my final photos in a spooky or scary environment, so i went to three different locations, An old Mental institute which is called High Royds, then to Menston cemetery and then to Guiseley cemetery. i used these locations because they were all spooky places, cemetery's because of the obvious reason that people get buried there and i think the look of gravestones look quite spooky but also really interesting, High Royds is notoriously a spooky and weird place to be so i thought it was a perfect place to go and shoot my finals, it cost nothing to get there as they were a 10 minute walk away from where i live. i enjoyed going to the studio in college and experimenting different techniques and the results were really good, i enjoyed the low key and the high key shoots in the studio because it felt like we were proper photographers in a real situation. I liked the different types of shoots we had to do such as the contre jour shoots which gave an interesting end product. I've not really been interested in portrait photography but after this project it has really opened my eyes to what its really like and i think portrait photography could be something id like to do and pursue. I personally think my final images worked really well and there was a few things i would have done better if i did it again such as changing what my subject was wearing and maybe doing a few more shoots but in different locations. My inspiration for the project was Steve McCurry and next time i am to do something like this i think he will influence my work again but the next time i will take more of his ideas and put them into my own work because i like his style of work. i think i could have organised my time a bit better by going out days when i had little work to do and to do this i would have to do my work as soon as it is set so it is out of the way. But overall i believe this project was a success as it really expanded my knowledge of lens and different lens based imagery and also portraits in general and what best to do on photo sets or in a studio,i enjoyed this project a lot and i would be interested in doing more portrait photography in the future.