With the nature and decay tasks we were meant to choose one of these. I chose the nature task because there was more variety. For this I took photos of all kinds of plants and flowers. For the school brochure task I took different photos of school and (just like the nature) edited them so that so that they looked more interesting and professional. For the photo essay task, we were meant to take photos of a chosen topic. I chose to take photos of me making fruit and vegetable juice. I then put each image together and uploaded them to the blog.
I enjoyed taking the school photos the most because I had a lot of fun editing them, I also think that they were the most interesting because I could feature people in them.
Another part I enjoyed was taking the nature photos because I got to go outside and experiment with different photo techniques.
The part that I enjoyed the least was taking photos for my photo essay. This was because I did not have many ideas and most of my other ideas either failed or were not very interesting.
Another reason why I hated taking the photos for the photo essay was because the topic that had I chosen to do (making a juice smoothie) was not as exciting as I had hoped it could of been.
This is my image.
This is a professional photo which is similar to my photo.
The difference between my image and the professional image is that the professional image shows far more leaves. Honestly I prefer my image because it shows a close up of leaves with the drops of water magnifying the colour and reflecting the sunlight.
This is my image.
This is a professional photo which is similar to my photo.
My (pink flowers in front of house) image is my least favourite image out of all of my images. The reason why is because its a little blurry, especially around the petals. So because of this, the professional image is my favourite because the colour makes it extremely eye-catching and because it is not blurry.
Another reason why I love the professional image is because the way the photo was taken makes the flowers look like they are stretching across the screen.
I improved my photography skills by researching tips on the internet, looking at help sheets and getting help from my friends. These were useful because it meant that I could improve my (once terrible) photography skills.
Another skill I needed to improve was editing images.
The help I got was similar to what I got for my photography skills e.g. Help sheets, internet research and help from friends.
Also, lots of practice helped with both of these skills. Practising over and over again meant that I could improve my skills and get better each time.
To present my photo essay and nature photos I put them into two separate slide shows by using a website called Flickr. The reason why I chose to use Flickr is because it is extremely easy to upload photos and create slide shows.
Finally, I put together a questionnaire (using a website called Freedback) asking people about their opinions on my photos and edits etc. They managed to give me feedback by putting their email address's on the bottom of the questionnaire. This would then send me a message on my e-mail telling me the results of the questionnaire.
Most of the results that I received were positive and sometimes a little mixed up at times (mixed reviews). The main issue that people had with my photo essay photos was that they wanted to see more variety.
