Comment my photography
Strengths and
weaknesses
I feel that the technical strengths of my photography are
that once I have taken them I have the ability to edit them well in Photoshop.
Using Photoshop is a great way to enhance and improve your images to get that
better feel. Editing will have more effect on the people that are viewing them.
If you change the contrast and the level of brightness it will make my images
look more approachable. The weaknesses in some of my photos is the lack of
professionalism, such as getting things in shot that shouldn’t be there and
also the lack of lighting in some of my shots. Thankfully Photoshop gives me
the chance to edit all of my faults and in result get the perfect shot.
Expectations
For me I met my expectations with my London shots because of
the wide variety of things I could take pictures of such as transport, birds
and the River Thames. I managed to get quite a few decent shots and took full
advantage of my time in London. On other pieces of my photography work I maybe
could have done better with the rule of thirds and white balance photos.
Influences
Influences that helped
me with my photography work were looking at different artist and getting ideas
from them. I’m a big fan of the graffiti artist ‘Banksy’ so I looked to him for
ideas. When I took a trip to London with the college we were lucky enough to
walk alone South Bank and see the different sites. There is a skate park on
South Bank covered in graffiti so I took shots of the street art because it’s
what I’m interested in. All of his artwork has some sort of meaning with a bit
of humour thrown in to. My work doesn’t really have much meaning or humour but
it will influence me in the future.
Skills/Technology
The skills I have developed in photography are basic but
useful. Such as I understand the rule of thirds, diagonal lines and the three
point lighting system. I understand what it means to get good shots and
actually use a camera and I learned what the camera settings mean and what they
do. In photography we had to use Photoshop to improve images and now after
using this for a while I have a great understanding of how everything works.
Compare
As I’m new to photography this year I’m not as professional
as I wanted to be. My pictures are simple and don’t always have a photographic
technique where as a professional photographers will have. In my images I have
a lot of people interrupting my camera shots and have things appearing in them
that I wouldn’t want in there originally. I like to think that some of my
images have the techniques that some professional photographers will use such
as the rule of thirds and capturing the perfect photo.
