G. Evaluation: Technologies,

QUESTION 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 

This image is copied from Google, but this is a reputation of the kind of set up I used. In the studio all I had was the back of a classroom which has a pull down white paper backdrop which although it catered for my needs, it was a pretty basic set up. As for the lighting it was something that I played around with a lot, as in the studio there were two different lamps, one with and umbrella and one soft box. So I made the most out of my resources and while experimenting and seeing what worked for this specific photo shoot, I found that by using both of the photographic lamps made my images a little too bright but if anything much too flat, in my photography I like there to be good balance between the shadows and highlights. To create this I used the soft box but dimmed down the strength of light it was giving out and this worked for my images and this is how I photographed throughout my magazine for the studio images. For this shoot I didn’t want to use a tripod as I can find them quite restricting sometimes when doing portraits and the camera I used throughout the magazine was a Nikon D90.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for the editing side of things I didn’t touch Photoshop CS6  too much as when photographing I made sure that everything was set up properly so that was nothing to edit. Usually if I go to edit things on Photoshop I only adjust the levels, shadows and highlights, because I made sure that these were perfect while photographing when it came back to uploading onto the computer it saved time and also stopped my images looking fake plus it would be improper to use it for the manipulation of my images as it is primarily a culture magazine that focuses a lot on photography and art. However when it was used it was to put text onto the image to create my cover, contents and feature pages, I did this by using the text tool and this allowed me to put text everywhere and anywhere I wanted over the image as if I were to use Microsoft Word this is when it would restrict me.

 

 


 

I didn’t want to use Flickr, ISSUU or Prezi as I felt that these ways of presentation were too fancy and complicated for me which resulted in being far too time consuming, plus for my satisfaction I also felt that if I were to use these ways of presentation that I could miss critical points when talking about my work. So when using Blogger as my blogging site I decided to manually write all my work out as I prefer this as I feel it’s more informative.  The advantages about using Blogger are the fact that you can easily edit analyses easily. The only disadvantages of using Blogger is that work could easily be plagiarised especially over the college network, and the way that Blogger is set out can be quite confusing but if you sat down with it for a couple of hours like I did you’ll get the hang of it eventually.