800 word evaluation

Evaluation

In my image I was intending to capture a good representation of weather this wasn’t going to be easy as I had a lot of obstacles to over come beforehand I went out to take my picture once I had planned efficiently, I went and took 14 pictures of weather at Southsea. Some were good and some weren't as good as I would've liked For research, I went online and chose the best ‘weather’ image out of them all. However, my final image shows how weather can make a picture look worse or better in certain scenarios and in this particular picture, the gloomy day has made my picture look better. While I was taking my pictures I was intending on showing a good effect of weather in more than one picture. Some weren’t good at all due to the lighting of the image, so I had to play around with the aperture as the picture was coming out darker as it was a dull day. Therefore I changed it to F11, this allowed light to travel through the camera and make it brighter, but not to bright. I didn’t want to set a lower setting as the picture has the effect of a dark, gloomy and miserable day. To start with I had a low ISO setting that made the picture black, so after having a look at the settings I chose ISO 800 and that made my picture a lot more visible and clear. 

While I was planning to take my pictures, I set out to go out on a gloomy day and show how good a picture can be even when it’s not sunny out. I have done much secondary research throughout my planning and I have found most pictures are either when it’s raining or when it’s a summer day. However I had found some pictures where it was a gloomy day but it was a rare occurrence. Therefore this made me want to show how good a dull day can look when you have the right settings on your camera and a little editing on Photoshop can make any image look that much better. But from my secondary research which conducted of looking on websites and across a wide selection of magazines there were only sunny days for weather. This could be due to the fact photographers don’t want the hassle of possibly having to edit or continuously change settings until you get the perfect shot. Furthermore this was just a minor issue for me to deal with, so when I went in the afternoon to get my final shot it was perfect, this was due to my timing and thoughtful planning before hand. My final picture has a resemblance to another photographers picture that was taken towards the pier that was the main focal point for theirs. But for mine I wanted to mainly focus just on the sky and the sea which shows the effect of weather as it was a miserable day which can be seen from the waves. The main focal point for my final picture would be the clouds as that gives you the feeling of how the day was when I took the picture.

My final assessment of my performance is that it was mainly all good, my time management was very good, it had to be as I wanted to get all my main bits of work done and when it came to getting my final picture I acted swiftly and appropriately to get my pictures. When I printed my picture our on photographic paper I got some peer feedback and most the comments were positive, some of the comments were that it is “different from your ordinary weather photos, however it looks good”, most were along the same line as that comment. But there were a few little negatives from one or two people they were both the same comment, “Maybe use a different location next time, somewhere more suited to your choice of weather”. That is a fair comment to make and I wouldn’t even say it’s criticism it’s more advice than anything, and if I’m honest maybe choosing another location would’ve improved my work a little more so next time I will take that into consideration and aim for a more suited location. To further my picture even more if I were to do it again I would spend a little bit more on Photoshop to add more detail, as for this I only cropped the edges a little, even though that made it look better I could do more to make it more professional. What I’ve learnt from this is that it is a lot harder than it looks to get the perfect shot, and a lot of time has gone into trying to get the perfect shot. Before this I thought I’d be able to dedicate an hour at most to it but instead I spent hours on this, and I think overall it was worth the time, and with a few minor tweaks next time it will be even better.