End of year show

For the End of yeah show I put forward two photography peices that I did for two different assignments:

We were also asked to take a picture with both peices of our work in the art gallery on the wall 

Presentation

This is my presentation for my Final Major Project, I have also put the address of my website that i have created.

This page was about what I have created and why i chose to create it. 

With this page I put some pictures of two different websites that I have chosen as two pieces of my inspirations along with the website addresses.

This page is all about the different inspirations I have. And also that my dream job is to become a product photographer for a big company such as De-Facto which is where I had a summer job there in 2015 as a product photographer and I did it for big company's such as Fred Perry, Lavenham Jackets and Horse Rugs and I also did two prices for the university of Lancaster. 

The picture above is showing the page that I created that shows the different product photography that I have done and I have also put three images on showing the set up that I have done. 

The image above is showing the 6 different pages that I have created for the website that I created for my business Golden Age Clothing. 

On the page above it says how I felt about the Final Major Project, I feel that it has gove really well and I have done everything to the bet of my ability in the small time frame that we had. I am really happy about how everything turned out at the end and how professional the website looks. 

On this final image and final page it shows the peer feedback from my friends on the same course and  I have taken it all into consider and I have made a couple of changes. 

Evaluation

In this assignment we were asked to create media piece based on a theme of my choosing. We were asked to use our own knowledge, understanding and skills developed this year in the different units that we have done.  

For my Final Major Project I chose to create my own personal website and business called Golden Age Clothing, it is a product photography company so people will hire me to take so many photos of their clothing or products for a certain price.  

For my research I chose to research two different clothing companies called 11 Degrees and Bee Inspired which are two street fashion companies. I also researched product photography and the price range that people would pay for them taking for their company. For my primary research I chose to create an online survey on www.surveymonkey.com

Then I had to create a spider diagram showing the different ideas that I have thought of doing for my Final Major Project.

My first idea was to create a clothing company along with the website, designs, business cards, logo, name and a video advertisement with product photography as well to go onto the website. 

My next thought was to just create my own product photography company that shows me off as a product and model photographer. For this I would of had to create a website, business cards, name, logo and I would have to show some product photography that I have previously done so I made some t shorts work my company logo on them and then I used them to shoot pictures of with my canon 1200D and my soft box lights and backdrop. 

Once I had finished thinking of two different things to do I then had to pick one and create a brainstorm of what I will have to do and how much time I would have to do them so once I had done them I would be able to cross them out and then be able to see what I have left to do before the hand in date. 

While I was taking the photographs I had to take different things into account such as:

Location: I had to take the location of the photograph into account to make sure that i got the shadows right on the walls and also for my image on the stairs i had to find some that looked like the original picture so I could try to get the right shadow.

Times: I had to make sure that I was up to date with all of my production work and had to make sure the lights worked before we were shooting and also that I had to make sure that the places that we will be shooting are available and that we are able to get there easily. 

Props: For my images I didn't really need to use any props apart from the two different t-shirts that I have made by buying black and white tops and then I printed off my company logo onto light and dark transfer paper and then I used my iron to use as a heat press to attach them onto the t shirts. 

Models: For my images I used two different models my Jess and Jake for my images to pose as the people in the images but to get Jake to by my model I had to agree to be his model in his images so it was fair.

Equipment: I used all my own such as: my Canon 1200D, two soft box lights and my white backdrop.
When I was editing the pictures I used a program called Adobe Photoshop and while I was editing the pictures I used a number of different tools such as Pen tool, Clone Stamp tool, Eraser tool, Crop tool and Brightness/Contrast.

Contact sheets:

These are just four of the 12 contact sheets that I have created, I only ended up choosing 7 of the pictured because they are pictures that look the same and are blury. So I chose a couple of the best pictures, When I was taking the pictures I had the setting on Program (P) and I had the ISO set on 100, Shutter Speed on 125 and Aperture set to F11.

Editing my final model photography images for my website:

In this first image it just shows the image in Adobe Photoshop without any editing done yet.

In this second image it is showing the picture once I had duplicated the picture and layer, I did this by dragging the original layer with the picture on down to the bottom right corner.

On the picture above this it shows my picture once I had made a new white layer underneath the duplicated layer.

This image is showing my image once I had created the white layer and it is showing me using the Pen tool to cut around Jake and then I cut it out so you can see the white layer around the image of Jake. I also used the Clone Stamp tool to get rid of all of the old cuts and the spots on his face.

However I felt that the image didn't look as good with the white background, so i changed it back to the grey background.

The image below is the main page of my website that I have created for my Final Major Project and it has 6 different pages Home, About, Photo Gallery, Services, Pricing and Contact Us. I have designed and named each different page and I have wrote about who I am and what Golden Age Clothing is.

What I would improve next time:

Next time I would manage my time more wisely and to make sure that I have more time to make sure that I finish all of my work to the best of my ability. I would also make sure that I filly detail every piece of work that I have done and to screenshot every different step that I have tone to create my final piece.   

Peer Feedback:

Creating my final pictures

Below are the final images that I have taken and edited on Adobe Photoshop. 

I took these photos on my canon 1200D and my light set with two soft boxs and a white backdrop.

To shoot these pictures i set the camera to Program(P), ISO: 100, Shutter speed: 125, Aperture: F11

I edited there pictures on Adobe Photoshop, to start off the editing I duplicated the layers so I could edit the picture but at the same time i will have the original picture underneath it in case i do something wrong. I used a number of different tools such as Pen tool which i used to cut around the model, Clone Stamp tool which I used to get rid of all of the small spots and cuts on there arms and faces and i also used levels and curves to make the colours of the pictures right.

The production of editing pone of my pictures:

In this first image it just shows the image in Adobe Photoshop without any editing done yet.

In this second image it is showing the picture once I had duplicated the picture and layer, I did this by dragging the original layer with the picture on down to the bottom right corner.

On the picture above this it shows my picture once I had made a new white layer underneath the duplicated layer.

This image is showing my image once I had created the white layer and it is showing me using the Pen tool to cut around Jake and then i cut it out so you can see the white layer around the image of Jake. I also used the Clone Stamp tool to get rid of all of the old cuts and the spots on his face.

However I felt that the image didn't look as good with the white background, so i changed it back to the gray background