Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Layout and sections of your work.

 This work kind of lends itself to being produced in sections e.g. a design sheet for each section and then at the end when you've completed the work bring it all together in one big document.

The suggested sections are as follows (Design sheet for each one). 

Research _______________________________________________________________

3 x artists – focusing on their equipment, technique and media use +  the challenges and characteristics associated with their work.

3 x Genres – (Wildlife – Fashion – Sports)

The criteria you're aiming to address with the research work is...

One of the best ways of doing this is to find videos on-line of photographers on-location working and simply screen grab the videos that show the equipment and give a sense of where the are shooting to allow you to write about where they're shooting and what might be involved in shooting in that type of location. (Use lots of images)

*This same criteria is also addressed in your own work as you explain what you do and the characteristics and challenges you face when shooting making detailed reference to the equipment, techniques and media. 

Your work/shoots___________________________________________________________

The criteria you're looking to address in this section relates to your own shoots including any practice shoots.


Take images of all and any of the equipment that you use as well as wide shoots. Explain what the equipment is and why you're using it and why it's fit for purpose. For every shoot you do including the in-college practice/test shoots write a plan



Sunday, December 20, 2020

 

Remember

You do not have to write that much to get a pass. What you should do is use loads of images to demonstrate your learning.

When you do write – write in response to the criteria. Use the wording in the criteria as headings and sub-headings and write up the appropriate response. “Do what is says in the box”.



 - You've been advised to research...

Joni Steinbach "Surflands"

Xavier Ribas "Sundays" (Barcelona)

Yelena Yemchuk "Turn on the bright lights". (ID Magazine fashion).

You're advised to produce about a column and a half to 2 columns for each photographer. Use images as much as you can from the series of images indicated. The focus on your research as explained in class is  -

  • The equipment used - cameras, tripods, lights etc.
  • Techniques used
  • Media used (Digital or film)
  • The challenges that might arise shooting these images
  • The characteristics of these types of photography (type of photography and what make it that type)?
I then suggested you pick 3 genres of Photography from a list on the whiteboard and again research and write about these in terms of  - 

  • The equipment used - cameras, tripods, lights etc.
  • Techniques used
  • Media used (Digital or film)
  • The challenges that might arise shooting these images
  • The characteristics of these types of photography (type of photography and what make it that type)?

Personally given what's available on Youtube I'd have gone for -

·         Fashion Photography

·         Wildlife Photography

·         Sports Photography

 You therefore have to explain what’s involved in each of these with reference to the equipment, techniques and media used. So for instance - what equipment is required when shooting fashion on location – is there any equipment that is unique to fashion Photography? What techniques are used when shooting fashion and are these unique to fashion photography – how why? What media is used in the production of fashion photography? Are there any exceptions and why, where are they seen?

What are the characteristics of fashion photography, what does it look like, what’s involved, where is it seen, where is it done, how many people are involved, who are the people, who appears in the images, what’s the purpose, how organised is it, what are the laws and legal requirements.

What are the challenges involved in producing fashion photography - what's involved in terms of preparation, difficulties faced when shooting on location?

Then apply the same approach to at least two other genres/specialties. Either use the ones introduced in class or may others that you feel you know more about or are interested in.

Suggested method_______________________________________________________________

For each of the sections that you choose to do...

  1. Produce 2 columns of images showing examples or the type of photography and the equipment, techniques and media used. Then in the final column...
  2. Use the following headings...
  • Characteristics
  • Challenges
  • Equipment
  • Techniques
  • Media


Monday, September 14, 2020

Unit 18 - Production Process

Guidance for Production process.

a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.

This is a production process for a tea- maker.

1. I gather enough money together to buy tea with.
2. I figure which shops sell the tea I want before I go there, so as to not waste time.
3. I make sure I'm dressed appropriately for going to the shops.
4. I figure how to get to the shops and whether I need transport or whether I can walk there.
5. I check to see if it's safe to go to the 'Tea' shop and take safety precautions if necessary. It didn't seem dangerous, so there no need to list and address safety issues.
6. I travel to the shops by foot. 
7. I walk around the shop and locate the tea.
8. I take the tea from the shelf and give to the bloke/woman behind the counter and exchange cash for the tea.
9. I walk back home with the tea.
10. Once indoors I assemble all the necessary tea making equipment and check that it is all there and safe.
11. I assemble all of the tea-making gear and check that I have an electricity supply.
12. Check to see that the cables are safe and that there's no water near any of the points.
13. The tea-making gear consists of the following items...

  • Electricity supply
  • Clean water supply
  • Kettle lead
  • Kettle
  • A cup and saucer (Clean)
  • A tea spoon
  • Tea strainer
  • Optional sugar
  • Optional milk in 2 varieties (Vegan and semi-skimmed)
  • A packet of tea
  • A tea strainer
  • Tea - pot
  • Tea Cosy
  • Pot stand
  • A sturdy surface to work on
14. I pour water from the tap into the Kettle making sure I cover the elements.
15. I plug the kettle into the mains and turn the mains switch on.
16. I wait for approx 3 minutes for the water in the kettle to boil.
17. I pour some excess hot water from the kettle into the pot to 'Warm the pot'.
18. Using a tea spoon I measure 1 spoon 'For the pot' and additional spoons for each person that requires tea.
19. As the kettle comes to the boil I pour the water from the T-Pot (Warning water) away.
20. Place the teaspoons of tea in the Tea pot.
21. Pour the boiling water into the pot sufficient enough for the people who will be par-taking of the tea.
22.Place the lid of the tea- pot on the pot and cover the pot with the tea cosy. 
23. The tea is now left to brew for the time that suits your taste... 5 - 20 minutes
24. While the tea is brewing, the cups and saucers are assembled.
25. The appropriate milk is placed in the bottom of the cup.
26. Sugar is added using the tea spoon (best without).
27 Once the tea is deemed as being 'Ready', the tea is poured into the cups and stirred using the tea spoon.
28. The tea is then distributed among those par-taking of the tea.







In the context of your work, you'll need to explain the production process involved in someone else's work (Not this example below) and the detail your production process for your final shoot, from conception to finish, what and who was involved and how, what did you have to do to ensure your shoot came together successfully. 

Production processes differ from job to job. The subjects that you've been given are primarily either 'Editorial work' or 'Advertising'. 

Here's an example of the production process with regards editorial work for Fashion magazine that I had explained to me some years ago.

This story pertains to a Fashion Photography graduate, who having completed their course was looking to do a shoot and get the work published in a well known trendy London based magazine that is still available in WH Smiths. 

The students college/University had strong links with a London based contemporary fashion publication with ex graduates working in high positions within the company. The student had forged strong links with the magazine whilst at University and net-worked during their time in education with Make-up artists, hair-stylists, stylists, models and set builders.

Working on Spec' 

One of the ways that you can get published within the editorial field is to 'Work on spec'. This is where you approach a magazine with an idea and see if they are interested in running your 'Story/pictures' in a future edition. Again it helps massively if you're a good communicator and are good at net-working, this graduate was.

In the fashion industry a lot of people collaborate with each other in order to achieve a particular end. If you read magazines you'll see that at the end of the magazine or on the pages where the images are published,  several people are credited with the production of the work... Photographers, stylists, make up etc.

So the process starts with - coming up with the idea and the concept - potentially as a result of the persons on-going practice of researching/thinking.

Then, they have to come up with a plan as to what they're going to do, how they're going to do it, where they'll shoot it, what problems might arise, who else will be involved and when they propose to do it. In this instance as it was a fashion magazine shoot - you have to work several months in front of the next season, so you have to have knowledge of what's going to be happening several months ahead of the publication of the article and images.

An early part of the production process might include making decisions about the equipment you'll use and why? The media you're going to shoot it on and why and whether this suits the publication. Many publications will expect the work to be produced on digital media rather than silver based media because their own production process only allows for the handling and production of digital files. In the fashion industry their is still scope in some instances to shoot using film. If film is one of the ways you work and you see it as being cost-effective and bringing something to the product you produce, it might mean that you produce the work up to the print stage and then get the work scanned so that the publication can use the digital files from the scans. Your research needs to extend to how flexible the magazine or client is when it comes to production times and handling hard-copy material if they do at all. 

As a graduate straight out of Uni, this person had several friends and contacts that they knew would get involved offering their services for free. The goal, is not necessarily to be paid, because often in these situations payment is either negligible or non existent, but to get published in a up and coming magazine. This then goes on your CV and in your portfolio and this applies to everyone involved in the collaboration. 

The Photographer whose Idea this was, speaks to all of their contacts, to see who wants to be get involved and sorts through who's in and who's out ending up with the 'Creative' team. Then lead by the Photographer the idea is proposed and firmed up with different roles and jobs being allocated to different people in the 'Creative team'. 

Model - The models who were approached came with their portfolios for the 'Go see' with the stylist, hair stylist, make-up artists and photographer to decide which of the models would be the one for the job. A quick test shoot was done with each model.

Sorting the location

At this point a friend of mine who was a lecturer at the big college where the student studied was approached, requesting that they could use her house as the location. My friend said yes, but her husband would be there and could not be disturbed as he was working. She also said that she wanted nothing to do with it either and that she would make sure that her own teenage children would all vacate the house early in the morning to make space so that they could use her living room and an adjacent room. She said she would be there to let them in and then she'd disappear and also get on with work that she needed to do. They were given 6 hours to get in and shoot and get out.

The location - At this point the location should be decided and a test shoot already done at the location to show the stylist so that decisions can be made about the way the shoot is styled. 

The Stylist - works with the photographer to decide 'The look', this involves decisions about the period, the mood, the feel, the style and the clothes that will be worn and the narrative and the way that these aspects will knit together in conjunction with the location chosen. The stylist has access to places where the clothes can be obtained in return for a credit in the magazine or images to use for their own promotion or some other mutual agreement that suits both parties. 

Make up and hair - Now the style/look/feel and model has been decided - sample images, the test shoot images of the model, 'Tear sheets' and mood boards might be produced to show the make-up and hair-stylists. They then get a sense of what's involved and then have their input about how this can be be best done, or their skills might already be known and they're simply told what needs to be done. 

Prior to the shoot date - The props and clothing were dropped off at the Photographer house/flat by the stylist. Everyone had cleared their diaries and agreed the shoot time and date on a Saturday morning at my friends house. A van was hired along with a driver and all of the props, clothes and equipment was to be loaded into the van to arrive at my friends house. My friend was told the Photographer, model, stylist, hair stylist would all be at the house at 09.00 hrs with the intention that they'd start shooting at 11.00 hrs.

On the day - No-one turned up at 09.00 hrs and my friend left the house to get on with day to day stuff she had to do. In the meantime a Van turned up at 10.00 hrs with a bloke who only knew he had to deliver the stuff to the address and people would unload it. My friend wasn't there and her husband had to leave his work to unload the van himself. He wasn't happy. 

Just as he settled down to work again the rest of the 'Creative team' including the Photographer turned up 2 hours late at 11.00 hrs. My friends husband let them into the house and went back to his work basically giving them the run of the house. Then then took over several rooms spreading clothing rails and props everywhere by the time my friend turned up. She says it was carnage, they didn't have a clue what they were doing. The Photographer had never shot slide film before or had even used the camera that she had chosen. Everything took far more time than they expected and by 9pm that night they had shot the slide film and begged my friend to let them leave everything in place till the next day until they'd had the film processed at the lab overnight. 

The next day (Sunday) - The film was ruined - massively over-exposed and the Photographer was on the phone pleading to be allowed to re-shoot with a different model with the Photographer doing the make-up and hair-styling themselves as everyone else had other commitments on Sunday. The photographer turned up with a new model and my friend who is a photographer helped the so called photographer realising that they knew very little about shooting film and exposing it. They shot B&W film this time which was problematic as it needed to be processed and the magazine was expecting to see the slide film images mid - week. The Photographer had to rush off and get the film processed trying to meet the deadline to see the picture editor at the magazine.

All the gear was left at my friends house and didn't get collected till Monday and again my friend and her husband had to load the van with the photographer nowhere to be found. The 6 hour shoot had extended over nearly 3 days.

The pictures - The B&W images were processed and contact sheet printed and taken to the picture editor who also looked at the ones that were massively over-exposed. One of the over-exposed shots though unintentionally shot like that, was looked at and deemed to have something about it and because they were from the same college and because the photographer was one of those types that used and promoted those kind of connections and the was bubbly/positive type in those kinds of situations (My friends analysis). The single image was used on the front page of the magazine and she was paid a front cover fee. Because they used the slide film which was the shoot that had gone completely wrong all of the 'Creative team' were credited in the magazine, so everyone who was involved had the front cover of a national and trendy magazine to go in their portfolio and the Photographer came out smelling of roses. 

  • The Photographer hadn't studied photography at degree level.
  • Networking, blagging, getting lucky and knowing people was the formula that worked in this situation - not what you know and the photographic skill. 

You should identify and discuss aspects of your production process throughout the development of the project each time you shoot in the analysis section of your post shoot Gibbs reflections. A detailed account of your production process for your final shoot should be produced as a key part of your final evaluation. It's essential that you analyse your process and come up with valid and comprehensive suggestions with regards how your production process could be improved. 

You also need to explain how the work you've produced will be used to support your goals going forwards as an aspiring photographer; e.g. what value has this assignment and the resulting images and learning added to your skills base and portfolio? 


Have a look at the credits on the end of this shoot with Billie Eilish to get some sense of the people involved in a studio shoot. The same applies with location shoots.









Monday, August 17, 2020

Techniques in Photography

Techniques in Photography

Many of the assignments require that you write about the 'Techniques' used in Photography.  Sometimes this involves you looking at the techniques used by the photographers you research or the techniques that you employ in your own photography. So it's important that you know what's meant when your required to identify/analyse and write about 'Techniques'. It's advisable to write about the techniques in terms of how it helps to communicate the creative intention... what is the photographers creative intention and how does the technique help to convey this?

Technique - The definition

a way of carrying out a particular task, especially the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure.

If you think about the sentence above it should give you some sense what you're looking for or trying to explain. If you look at the work of Richard Avedon "In the American West" (Below) and find images of him shooting on location you'll see what his basic technique involves...


Richard Avedon, second from left, talking with a cowboy in Augusta, Montana, with Ruedi Hofmann, third from left, assisting on the shoot in 1983.

10 x 8 View camera.
Tripod.
Reflectors.
Soft Diffuse wrap around day light.
A background set up on the shadow-side of a building (North light).
A large paper background taped/fixed to a wall.
Composing the subject from 3/4 length to 1/2 body
Pure white background
Tri-X pan film
Direct eye-contact with the camera
Basic and consistent use of central rule of thirds composition.
Uniformity.
Direction of the model/subject.

There are other more subtle aspects to his technique which involve the way that he speaks to the people and gets them to pose in the way that they do, that's also a part of his technique.

Once in the darkroom there are further more complex techniques that come into play with regards to decisions and complexities involve in producing prints in the size for this series of images.

Detail of instruction's to the printer made by Ruedi Hoffmann based on Avedon's comments

Your technique also involves - decisions with regards to the lens used and the field of view. Whether you use colour or B&W media, fast or slow shutters speeds, differential focus, depth of field, view-point and more - take a look at this link for some more 'Cheesy' approaches aimed at Amateurs

To get this aspect into your work it can be explained during the planning/intentions sections, or identified when researching the photographers or reflected on when producing your Gibbs reflections and final evaluations.


https://aphelis.net/avedons-instructions/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/nyregion/richard-avedon-unsigned-prints.html

Techniques (General)

Choice of camera - Pinhole/DSLR/35mm film/medium format/5x4/10x8
Choice of lens - field of view, depth of field, distortion, flattening, wide angle, standard, telephoto
Choice of film - contrast, sharpness, grain
Single shot
Multiple shots
Fast shutter speed - freezing the action
Slow shutter speed - allowing the image to blur
Panning
Hand -held
Tripod
View-point
Diffuse light
Point light
On-camera flash
Studio lighting - studio lighting on location
Mixed light
Ambient light
Daylight
Informal/formal/directed (models)
Person + background + symbol + involvement - 1 shot formula
Typology
Deadpan


Saturday, June 27, 2020

Unit 18 Research Guidance

This unit is fairly research heavy, so you need to make a start on it as soon as possible.

There are three aspects to the research. The usual artist research, but with focus on the characteristics of their location photography and potential problems they would have faced in conducting these shoots "Sundays" - Xavier Ribas and "Turn on the bright lights" Yelena Yemchuk. Other things you need to identify and explain how they were used include 'Media' e.g. the film, equipment and their techniques that they employed when shooting.
Equipment research - identify and explain the use of 6 different key pieces of equipment that is typically used in location photography... (1) Tripods of different types (2) Light baffles – different types and how they are used. (3) External flash different types and how they are used with particular attention paid to Fill-in flash. (4) Reflectors – different type and how and when they are used. (5) Light/flash meters different types and how they are used. (6) Backgrounds & their support systems – different types and how they are used.

Location specialties research (see the list below) Choose 4 of these - in the research for these identify the equipment, media and techniques used as well as details about what characterises these specialties and what challenges and problems are faced in the production of this type of photography.

Location Photography is almost any photography that takes part outside of the studio. So if you were in the studio at college taking pictures of me there and walked me outside into the Atrium that would then be Location Photography. Even if you then brought the studio lights out into the atrium and used them, that would still be location photography.

Location photography is basically photography where you have to deal with 'Ambient light' (Light that exists at the location). See the definition here https://www.shootfactory.co.uk/what-is-location-photography/

Location agencies - https://www.locationsdirect.co/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_-D3BRBIEiwAjVMy7BkKbyIMh7UJWUGipBleczRqozBkSeO3CUR4lkyFtnCx5KLwqNDC3BoCWE4QAvD_BwE
https://www.shootfactory.co.uk/

It is suggested that you produce research for at least 4 of the following specialties.
  • Fashion Photography
  • Wildlife Photography
  • Portraiture
  • Sports Photography
  • Architecture Photography
  • Landscape Photography
  • Photo-journalism/documentary

Your research pages as you know are expected to conform to the format above. You can choose to combine the specialties in the 2 page format or produce two pages for each of the specialties. Needless to say the more you do and the more detailed, the higher the chances of attaining the higher grades. 

Guidance 

If you look at the criteria, there are key words and phrases that you can use as the prompts/headings when you layout the main page (Right-hand side). These include.
  • Characteristics
  • Equipment
  • Techniques
  • Media
  • Challenges
  • Production process*
Your initial response could simply be your knowledge and observations of your chosen specialties prior to doing the research e.g. what do you know already guided by the prompts listed above. 

*Production process isn't listed within the 'A' Learning aims but can be addressed in your research at this early stage. (See here for help with production process). 

Within the research you need to cover (Write about and illustrate with images) The characteristics of your chosen specialities. Write what makes them difficult and challenging, how much pre-planning and specialist knowledge is required in order to produce the images. Click on the images below...



This one below the legendary Annie Leibovitz. If you click on the links they take you to more videos of Leibovitz shooting at different locations.

When you write about the specialities that you choose to research, one of the key things that you need to write about (Analyse and explain) is the challenges you face...
Finding or locating the subject - which sometimes requires specialist knowledge.
Access - not only to the location itself, but to the country or region you need to shoot in.
Obtaining visas, work permits.
Finding specialist guides or security services to take you to the place and keep you safe.
Shooting in London - you can't just turn up as a pro photographer and shoot on the streets. Look at Southend councils terms, conditions and permits to shoot photography on the beaches in the Southend Borough.
Walking around Southend taking pictures is much safer than doing it in other towns that are only a few miles away. Areas within Towns themselves differ from street to street because of the demographics.

*You need also to write about the challenges in terms of the equipment and techniques.



Jont Davies Beach shoot
https://btecy01.blogspot.com/2019/09/location-photography-shooting-on-beach.html

Friday, June 12, 2020

Unit 18 - Location Photography basic requirements

This is the guidance blog for Unit 18 - Location Photography

*Note 2nd year work is expected to be of a far higher standard than 1st year.

The images that are produced in this unit are expected to form part of your portfolio and may be used in your end of year exhibition. 

Remember you now need to carry forward what you've learned in the previous units into this Unit and make decisions about which elements you carry forwards and use.

One of the key things you need to apply to this unit is the use of the Creative Process. It's therefore expected that your work follows the process and implements it. 

There is no page count, the more you do, the higher the chance of you attaining the higher grades. Pay particular attention to the criteria ensuring what you write addresses the criteria. 

Get started - 
  • Create a folder and name it Unit 18 - Location Photography
  • Inside that folder create sub-folders...
  • Unit 18 shoots/images
  • Unit 18 Design sheets
  • Unit 18 Research 
Remember to designate a USB drive for all of your work - make sure you name and student number is on it and that you use it to save all of your work to. Transfer all your shoots to the USB drive as soon as you can and don't forget to back-it up frequently. Make sure you eject the USB drive from devices correctly. You must always have the USB drive when you're at college in order that your work can be monitored. 

  • As soon as you receive the assignment/brief make sure that you start the research straight away and look to get it completed within the first few days in order that you're able to start to work out ideas. 
  • Produce the work in a timely manner e.g. write it up in your Design sheets as you go along.
  • Consider having design sheets for sections of the work - (1) Research pages. (2) Research reflection and 1st plan. (3). First shoot and Gibbs reflection and each of the subsequent shoots you produce as you develop and improve the work and use an increasingly wider range of MTP's. as well as their associated Gibbs reflections and plans. (4) The final evaluation.
  • Finally, convert all of the work to PDF's and combine it into 1 PDF. 
  • Work must be printed off in colour and submitted in a display folder.
  • Deadlines will be rigid. 
  • Work not submitted as PDF's will be referred.
  • Referral deadlines will be rigid.
  • Non completion of referrals will be a fail.

Learning Aims


Basic approach


Step 1. Read through the assignment and write up an introduction. Title it “The requirements of the brief”. In this introduction explain what you are required to do as a minimum, include the learning aims (On the front of the assignment) and also use some of the pass criteria when explaining what it is you have to do. Also explain the basics of the assignment including things like the deadline and the stages of the creative process. C.P5

Step 2.  Research the 2 artists – Xavier Ribas & Yelena Yemchuk, but focus on writing about the characteristics of the photography seen in their location work (‘Sundays’ Barcelona Xavier Ribas and “Turn on the bright lights” Yelena Yemchuk). Refer to the equipment, techniques and media used by both the photographers, use images as much as possible to explain what and how these have been used in the shoots. Explain in as much detail the challenges they would have faced when doing these shoots. A.P1, AP.2

Step 3. Produce  1- 2 pages of research into the equipment that is available and used in Location Photography. Where possible use images of you actually using the equipment or use images of the equipment from internet or books/journals. As a minimum (Pass) identify and describe the use of (1) Tripods of different types (2) Light baffles – different types and how they are used. (3) External flash different types and how they are used with particular attention paid to Fill-in flash. (4) Reflectors – different type and how and when they are used. (5) Light/flash meters different types and how they are used. (6) Backgrounds & their support systems – different types and how they are used.
As much as possible use images for this part of the work with annotations and information gleaned from product data sheets from websites that you use. A.P1

Step 4. Produce 2-3 pages using images as much as possible to illustrate the equipment, media and techniques used in 4 different location specialties. Also identify the problems, challenges and characteristics associated with the 4 chosen specialties. A.P1
Step 5 Write a detailed explanation of what a production process is in photography. (Do not copy/plagiarise my example). Write a more general explanation using my example and any others you’re able to find through researching.  When you produce your own images explain clearly the use to which your images might be put. Where would they be seen, who might pay for them, what genre/s of Photography do they fit and why they are fit for purpose and suit this purpose. (Note these points can be also discussed in your Gibbs reflections). C.M4
Step 6. Reflect on your research work using the Gibbs method finishing with a plan for your first test shoot. Make sure your plans are detailed as this is one of the key criteria Planned Intentions. B.P4
Step 7. Using the Plan-do-reflect approach (Creative process) conduct several test shoots trying different locations, subjects, light types, equipment, media and techniques. Each shoot needs to be planned in as much detail as possible planned intentions with a good selection of the images produced in your design sheets with annotations. Each shoot needs to be reflected on using the Gibbs method with particular attention paid to the what you’ve learned, analysing the use of light, equipment, media and the techniques you employ. Why where they fit for purpose, why were they problematic and what if you used them differently or didn’t use them – how would the images improve or suffer? Each time you conduct one of your test shoots identify 2 or more aspect of photographic practice on location that you need to improve making detailed suggestions as to how these improvements might be actioned. Also, within the Gibbs reflections explain how what you have done meets the requirements of the brief.  B.P3, B.P4, C.P5, C.P6

Step 8. Write up a final evaluation once you’ve completed your final shoot and evaluate the success of your final shoot. Break the evaluation down into headed sections (1). Why is my work fit for purpose mentioning the potential client and use of the images – where would they be seen and why are they appropriate? (2). How does my work meet my planned intentions Explain how your final shot met your planned intentions (Your plan). (3) My production process write a detailed account of your own production process and how and why it helped in the production of this work. (4). Future skills development Identify and explain in detail 6 or more areas of your practice that you need to improve in order to be a more accomplished photographer.C.M4, C.D3 




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Notes. They can approach the research in a number of ways.

The research can comprise of Artist research whereby they're primarily identifying the following aspects of the Photographers work...

Type and characteristics of the location photography looked at.(Irving Penn and In the American West) 




Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Final evaluation guidance Unit 18 (Location)

Explain how own application of location photography equipment, techniques and media met the requirements of the brief.

(1)   In as much detail as you can using the learning aims on the front of the assignment and the details of what it is you needed to produce in terms of the images referring to the client brief explain why your finals meet the brief – why are your images fit for purpose and what role did the use of media, techniques and equipment play in ensuring your met the brief.

 

·        For this assignment I was required to…

·        I’ve been able to meet these requirements because..

Explain how own location photography practice can be developed further.

(2)   In as much detail (Consider the research you’ve done and how complex some location photography can be) what aspects of your photographic practice do you need to develop further. This can include anything such as communication skills, planning, organisation, using materials, exposure, film processing, printing, using a greater range of compositions, poses, working with people you don’t know, post production skills using photoshop.

·        Areas of my photographic practice that I could improve are..

·        I could improve these by…

Analyse the success of your own location photography with considered reflection upon the production process.

(3)   Explain your production process in detail and reflect on whether it was sufficient, were there parts of your production process that could be improved? Did you leave some aspects of your production process to chance and was there a chance that if some aspects of the production process hadn’t come together the shoot wouldn’t have happened or would have been problematic. What contingency plans did you have in place if anything had gone awry? Do you think you could get together a shoot on the same scale as Jonty Davies – what knowledge are you lacking?

·        My production process from start to finish included…

·        How do I feel it went…

·        What was good and bad about my production process..

·        If I analyse my production process, I can see that it was deficient in that…

·        What could I do next time to improve my production process… 

Layout and sections of your work.

 This work kind of lends itself to being produced in sections e.g. a design sheet for each section and then at the end when you've compl...