My chosen Finals

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What I have done so far and what I need to do...

Today is our deadline day and we have to hand in our research journals, all 8 boards (4 traditional  and 4 Digital finals - mounted).

I have printed and mounted all of my traditional boards. I m very pleased with the result, and believe that each composition and photo looks great and they all link in specifically with the subject matters that Philip Tonkyn (personal related study research) uses in his own work.

I am now waiting for our digital finals to be printed so that I can mount them in today's lesson.

Also, I need to look through my research journal to see if I need to write any extra notes/ annotations.

Deadline for my Personal Study

Today is our deadline for our final version for our Personal study. I am extremely pleased with the final outcome of this as I believe that I have put a lot of time and detail into it. By completing this task, was extremely helpful with the researching and development of my research journal as Philip Tonkyn inspired me and helped to develop new ideas and techniques. By contacting and emailing the photographer was extremely helpful when writing my personal study.

Personal Study Research

As we only have a few weeks left until we have to hand in our Related Personal study we need to complete:

• Title Page
• Contents Page
• Introduction
• Biography
• Image Analysis 1
• Image Analysis 2
• In the style of...
• Conclusion
• Bibliography

Moving onto Digital

We have now finished doing traditional photography within class although we can still take the opportunity to use our frees to print photos and develop films if needed. When I move on to digital I am going to focus on more close-up photography as I feel that my compositional close-up nature photography looks good as I try to take photos from different angles.

Digital

We have now moved onto the digital section of our A2 photography coursework. I am going to use this lesson time to develop my photoshop skills and take advantage of the Mac suite. Although we did use photoshop last year I want to get to know photoshop and try out some new techniques.

Luckily, I have already taken quite a few digital shoots over the last few months when we first started our coursework so I am going to look over these photos and see what I can to improve and experiment on with photoshop, as well as keeping in mind the techniques used by Philip Tonkyn (the photographer I have chosen for my personal study).

Choosing my traditional finals and problems that I have faced

So far I am very pleased with the progress that I have made, as I am up to date with my research journal and have chosen all four of my traditional finals.

When printing my finals I encountered a small problem with the sunflower photo. Unfortunatly when I printed and developed this photo large, the image appeared too grey eventhough I used 170 magenta. This is a shame as when I printed it 5x7, I really loved the angle and composition of the photo. As a result I changed this particular final, as I want my finals to look professional and I felt by including this very grey photo would not appear well.