Target Audience
The target audience that I have produced these images for are for the older citizens, due to landscape photography not being much of a common hobby/ interest for the younger generations, if I were to produce these photographs for a magazine, it would be for a landscape magazine such as Country Life or Essex Life.
There isn’t really a set age for landscape photography, but both male or female’s could enjoy the outdoors, gardens, landscape photography gardening, forestry, who can appreciate a good scenery, mostly the older generations would benefit from the magazines as they have more free time and they can learn to appreciate the little things that can take a huge effect on someone, like pictures.
After I showed my class mates the photographs I had taken I got back both positive and negative feedback, but to me all feedback is good because I can learn from both especially negative feedback as I can grow and improve my work from it, one of my class mates called Holly Baker said; “The lighting in your images is not very good, as one picture is really dark, but i like the angle you have taken the angle of one as you have got the whole of the building in it and it looks really good.”
Historical/ Cultural Context
The images I have captured were taken in september therefore they would be published in the October issue of the magazine.
Images of scenery and landscape are really well studied and thought about, landscape and scenery can change and develop in weeks, months, years and centuries.
The image I could take today of a scenery could no longer exist in 2 years time,due to climate change and the constant development that are taking place, so the images could be the only existence of that place in a few years time.
Production
When I first started taking photographs, the lighting and the thought that went into the pictures were not very good, so over the past few months my technical and creative ability has increased. I couldn’t even hold a SLR camera when I first started, my angle and positioning have also have become a lot better since I started photography back in september, by changing the settings and aspects on a SLR camera you can produce a completely different photograph even if you are capturing a photo of the same object.
It is essential to use the setting correctly depending on the image you are capturing to take a good picture you need to consider the aperture, ISO and the shutter speed.
For example if you have a narrow aperture and a slow shutter speed you will get a sharp and focused image, where as the opposite would create a background with a blurred and out of focus image.
I have also learnt about thirds and composition, e.g. negative space, lines, texture ad depth of field.
If I wanted to edit a photograph I am able to use photoshop which is a software that allows you to enhance the images.
Reflection / Self Evaluation
I feel as thou when I started photography i didn’t know anything, when i was being taught about lighting, lenses, flash, aperture and shutter speed, I didn’t really get a feel for myself how to take a picture until i went out on my own and started capturing the images. I am now able to talk about the settings on the SLR cameras and explain about each one myself, talk about photography techniques, and i can use photoshop, although i can only perform basic skills on photoshop there is still a lot of room for me to improve and learn new skills on the software, i tend to forget how to do certain effects, so i need more practice with the software.
All the tasks that i have been given to me i feel as though i could have maybe put a little more effort in but i do feel as thou what i have done is quite good. after taking the photographs i did try and get feedback from my friends and family. This allowed me to find out what they thought of my pictures and what they felt when they saw my photographs.
I didn’t mind getting positive or negative feedback as both are good as i could use it to my advantage and improve my work as soon as i could.
I did tend to try and manage my time correctly, but when i was using photoshop the time seemed to go quickly, so i lost a lot of time taking photographs.
When it came to capturing the photographs i did manage to take a lot of decent photographs and i used the time i had wisely, i used my imagination and put myself into someone else shoes looking at the picture and to see if i could take it any other way to make it better.
I planned ahead effectively as I researched photographers work and ideas before I captured my images, by doing this I was able to be creative and imaginative, which allowed me to show what i could do, After i took them, i pressed the wrong buttons and ended up deleting everything i had captured , so i quickly took some more, but i was very disappointed as the photographs i did capture were so much better and said a lot more, and captured a lot more emotion, but the photographs i have submitted are okay, so i am happy to submit them, but i would have prefer not to have to.
Overall, i probably could have produced better photographs, but they are all reasonably good, but i did complete all my tasks so i am happy that my work was all submitted.
