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So, this unit is over and I have to admit I'm a little bit sad. This speaks volumes about my feelings on the Unit:
So, this unit is over and I have to admit I'm a little bit sad. This speaks volumes about my feelings on the Unit:
| Unit ID | Unit Description | Your Attendance % (For Date Range) | Unit Avg. Attendance % (Unit year to date) |
| FMS403 | Digital Image Production 1 | 100% | 60% |
I loved the hands on approach to this brief. There's only one part that I didn't enjoy but I'll get to that later. Chris' lessons have been great. All of them. I walked away from each of them not only with new knowledge but a million questions and ideas through what I'd been taught.
The seminars were really engaging topics. The one that will forever stick in my head will be the post production one. It sparked debates within the lecture and it was something that we continued to talk and debate about countless times afterwards. It was a very honest insight into an industry that is about capturing the best and worst of someone.
I felt really intimidated at the beginning because I couldn't tell you the first thing about an SLR camera apart from how complicated they look and my photography skills were limited to a trip to Italy were my mum gave me her SLR camera and my selfie skills. I feel more comfortable now, I might have to have my notes with me but I don't think that's such a bad thing. Eventually I'll have it all memorised but because I don't shoot as much as I should, it's not something I've learnt by heart.
Feeling uncomfortable in front of the camera was something that I knew was going to be a natural thing. I'm in a group with people who are absolutely beautiful and know their angles and then there's me: little miss naturally awkward. It's interesting how people know how to pose and how natural it is to some people. It became apparent when doing test shoots in class, that some lighting suited some people and how it wasn't as flattering for others. I know how to adjust this now.
The lessons we had on lighting are probably my favourite. I've spent hours poured over photography books in the library just learning how the lighting works. It's still something that I'm yet to be comfortable with. My problem throughout this brief is that I become really frustrated with myself. I have a million and one ideas rushing through my head and I know how I want the outcome to look but I lack the knowledge to achieve it. I had to lower my expectations to my actual skill level and that was something I struggled with.
Once I got rolling on a shoot it was so much fun. You pick up on little things like a dress strap being twisted, or a single hair getting stuck to the lip gloss. I enjoyed trying to capture the moments in between my model posing. Some of those photos are the best I have (In my humble opinion.)
As always, I've loved researching about the photographers and I adored watching 'Rankin: 7 photographs that changed fashion' There's tonnes of books, articles, videos and model testaments about the photographers and I realised that the photographers almost seem more famous than their photos.
The only thing I wasn't overly keen on in the brief was the Photoshop element. I've never used it and it seems absolutely terrifying. There's so much to learn and I felt completely overwhelmed. I don't feel as though I was given enough time in the last few IT sessions to get to grips with the basics (ie Healing tools etc) This is something that I've got to try and do in my own time over Christmas so I can feel more confident in the New Year with my new brief.
I felt really intimidated at the beginning because I couldn't tell you the first thing about an SLR camera apart from how complicated they look and my photography skills were limited to a trip to Italy were my mum gave me her SLR camera and my selfie skills. I feel more comfortable now, I might have to have my notes with me but I don't think that's such a bad thing. Eventually I'll have it all memorised but because I don't shoot as much as I should, it's not something I've learnt by heart.
Feeling uncomfortable in front of the camera was something that I knew was going to be a natural thing. I'm in a group with people who are absolutely beautiful and know their angles and then there's me: little miss naturally awkward. It's interesting how people know how to pose and how natural it is to some people. It became apparent when doing test shoots in class, that some lighting suited some people and how it wasn't as flattering for others. I know how to adjust this now.
The lessons we had on lighting are probably my favourite. I've spent hours poured over photography books in the library just learning how the lighting works. It's still something that I'm yet to be comfortable with. My problem throughout this brief is that I become really frustrated with myself. I have a million and one ideas rushing through my head and I know how I want the outcome to look but I lack the knowledge to achieve it. I had to lower my expectations to my actual skill level and that was something I struggled with.
Once I got rolling on a shoot it was so much fun. You pick up on little things like a dress strap being twisted, or a single hair getting stuck to the lip gloss. I enjoyed trying to capture the moments in between my model posing. Some of those photos are the best I have (In my humble opinion.)
As always, I've loved researching about the photographers and I adored watching 'Rankin: 7 photographs that changed fashion' There's tonnes of books, articles, videos and model testaments about the photographers and I realised that the photographers almost seem more famous than their photos.
The only thing I wasn't overly keen on in the brief was the Photoshop element. I've never used it and it seems absolutely terrifying. There's so much to learn and I felt completely overwhelmed. I don't feel as though I was given enough time in the last few IT sessions to get to grips with the basics (ie Healing tools etc) This is something that I've got to try and do in my own time over Christmas so I can feel more confident in the New Year with my new brief.
Time management is so crucial. It can take a while to get the lighting right and I struggled with this to begin with. On my first shoot I was so nervous about getting everything wrong that I began to over think things and I didn't think that trial and error would be a good approach but in actual fact this method worked in my favour.
All in all this unit was an incredible eye opening experience. You don't realise how much work goes into a single image until you've got 6 to edit. Chris was a really helpful and understand tutor that never made me feel stupid about my lack of knowledge and he really helped me when I needed it and for this I'm extremely grateful.
All in all this unit was an incredible eye opening experience. You don't realise how much work goes into a single image until you've got 6 to edit. Chris was a really helpful and understand tutor that never made me feel stupid about my lack of knowledge and he really helped me when I needed it and for this I'm extremely grateful.
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