Friday, 17 May 2013

evaluation of still and scapes


Evaluation
This project was a split/ duel project on landscapes and still life having 14 weeks on the project as a whole, with landscapes being ten weeks and still life four. We started with still life and I didn’t have a clue what to expect, so I went into the project with a clear mind and didn’t think much about it to begin with. But after spend three or four hours in the studio trying to get the light right, which i found that to be biggest challenge of these project.  So I ended up spending more and more time in the studio lighting different objects in different ways I finally ran out of time to practice and had to do the shoot, it all seemed to come together on that day, the natural light was terrible. I had practiced for that and quickly set up the studio lights and looking back that was the right decision and I am really happy with my final print. There was also the fact that we were using to completely different formats and the challenges that I would be facing with each would be different, the first was digital, now I’m not a big fan of digital preferring film, but I handled the Cannon d5 quite aptly my. The 5’ 4’ camera I had never used before and the experience was eye opening, I really enjoyed the experience and will definitely be using it again. There are benefits with both formats, with film being that you can take a lot of photo quite quickly but printing multiple c-types can be quite expensive, were as film especially large format gives you extraordinary detail if taken correctly, but get it wrong and you can easily waste money taking multiple photo. The landscapes part of the project was my favorite I really enjoyed the experience of using the large format camera but I a made a few mistakes the main one being the I double exposed one my negatives.       

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