what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

The lighting used in my cover photo and the set was mainly simple and dark. The image was taken in a bedroom as I knew from planning that I didn’t want a light background, meaning the image would work best if it too had a dark lighting. The main image was taken on a nikon d3000 in a bedroom of a house. The lighting was from a small lamp.

The contents page image was taken in the studio at college so that I could edit the image in a way that it had a plain background. The lighting used in the studio was used in a way to add a spot light effect on the person in the image. This was a big learning curve as it was my first attempt with using the studio lighting. I felt I did a good job with not over powering the image with too much light, or too little that the image was too much shadow. I liked using the studio as the over all image appears more professional and cleaner. It’s also a lot easier when editing.

The double page spread image was taken in a bedroom as I knew I wanted a pattern based background. I experimented here with different angles and found that face on but rotating the image seemed to work best.

Before this project I hadn’t used Prezi nor Flickr. I feel that this has been a massive learning curve and both of these programs have been a huge help in the way of presenting my work in a neat and easy way. I feel that I prefer Prezi as with practise throughout the project, I can now create a clipped slideshow which allows people to understand my work in an interesting way.

Flickr works the same way however I don’t think it gives the best presentation although it is easier to create than a Prezi. I feel that the advantages that Prezi has compared to Flickr are that the overall finished product has a more professional feel to it. It also appears to be a lot cleaner and feels less like a draft. For simple annotating Flickr however is very useful, it just doesn’t give the same finished feel that prezi does.

Using a blog in the project has developed my understanding in the blogging world. I already had a blog beforehand but this project has inspired me to take my blogging further. Over all, recording my work on a blog has meant that accessing my work has been easy from home or from college. It also makes my work appear neater and I feel that I can add my own twist of my style to the blog when showing off my work.

I did have some experience with Photoshop before the project but creating my pieces has meant I’ve had to develop my understanding of the Photoshop tools further. For example, I can now work myself around the program so much easier. I find experimenting on Photoshop seems to work best as I can try out different techniques and styles, for example, blending effects and then chose my favourite, instead of having a set idea. My Photoshop knowledge that I’ve developed has helped me to create products exactly how, and maybe even better, than I’d originally designed.