Reflection of what I have done so far on this course

Reflection of what I have done so far on this course

I have learnt an awful lot on this course so far. We first learnt about how to use shutter speeds, apertures and ISO’s by doing group activities of going out around Newcastle and taking pictures using these three different things. I was encouraged to work harder as I felt like they had to be good or creative as they were shown on the board at the end. I quickly understood shutter speeds and apertures but ISO’s were a bit tricky. It was confusing because I didn’t understand which one I should use for certain lighting.

Black and white film was something we went through early on in the course. I didn’t enjoy this at the time, not because of the assignment but because I hadn’t got much confidence with using film so this made things hard for me. The main reason I didn’t feel confident was because I felt like I needed to get strong shots every time as I knew I couldn’t delete the images like I would on a DSLR. If I was to improve I feel that I would need to shoot more films so I could build confidence and get more strong images.

Processing film was tricky at first. Loading film was the trickiest as when It was in the bag which it goes in so you don’t expose the film to light, I couldn’t get the film onto the real and eventually this frustrated me an awful lot so I do feel that I need to practice this. Processing the film was also tricky as I kept forgetting the instructions which we needed of to do as their was quite a lot to remember.

Learning about HDR imaging was good. This was slightly confusing like how to create one of these images. It confused me a little by how you had to overlay the same images but with different exposures. This did interest me as it seemed really creative and gave me ideas.

Composition was a big part, which has helped me a lot. Basically this is how objects or the camera is placed to capture the shot. I fount this easy as we went through plenty of examples of photographers work.

Photographing objects or places which we were given was a tricky one. We did an assignment where we had to shoot something of our choice but within a certain area of Newcastle town. I ended up using a church but this was tricky as there wasn’t that much interesting stuff within my area, so I fount it tricky to generate ideas. If I was to do it again I would us stuff I am interested in within that area.

We have been taught about how to create magazine covers well using our images. I enjoyed this a lot just simply because of the freedom. It was a little frustrating putting the covers together but I am happy it was done that way as I could do it how I want.

Creating the magazine covers was my favourite part simply because it kind of links in with what I want to do when I finish this course. I really want to get the chance to use my images as a cover for a skateboarding magazine so the “we british” assignment kind of opened my eyes to doing this and it kind of  made me believe that I could get the chance to do this and its not ut of reach as long as I push for it.

Taking pictures of stuff that I am interested in on these assignments helps a lot as it makes the assignments more fun meaning I will stay interested and wanting to complete the work. It helps to make you feel like you can push yourself more. I want to work for Redbull when I am older shooting extreme sports so this work s really helping.