{Unit 9: Photography

TechniquesTask 8 – Final Proposal

By Rory Giddings

In PowerPoint you are now putting all your research and planning together into a portfolio. Your portfolio needs to include the following:

1 What is your topic? (Macro, Portrait etc) 2 What is the title of your exhibition? 3 Where will you will taking your photos? (locations)4 What is your inspiration? (Photographer? Magazine? Website?)5 Budget - Equipment /Cost – find out how much camera, tripod, SD card etc costs.6 Schedule – when will you take images? Are you using Photoshop? (Use the production schedule table to help)7 How will you exhibit your images? (Card, Frame?)

TASK:

My topic is Macro photography. I personally chose it because it's my favourite form of photography as it allows the human eye to experience/perceive beautiful images close-up and in great detail. I also like the fact that it gives us an insight into the world of very small subjects, which goes largely unnoticed.

1 - What is your Topic?

2 - What is the title of your exhibition?

There are several locations in school that I will be taking pictures, these will be located at:

3 - Where will you will taking your photos? (locations)

-School Classrooms

-Geography Block

-History Block

-Art Block

-Ringwood School Entrance

-Geography Flower Patch

-English Courtyard

My inspiration doesn’t come from an individual photographer or website, it just comes from different sections of the internet when I see various images of macro photography. I have always been fascinated by macro photography and I like the fact that you can see the creativity through other's eyes and develop a style of your own. Furthermore, I particularly love the beautiful simplicity and stunning quality of the macro images as they usually show the subject matter in a high resolution format, allowing the human eye to pick up on small little details that otherwise in everyday life we would easily miss. Also, I love how much dedication some photographers demonstrate to the art of macro photography, in some cases they even risk their lives to get a good picture. For example, I have seen a story in the newspapers of how a wildlife photographer almost died by entering the territory of a wild pack of wolves, simply to get a close up image of a curious wolf.

(See next slide for an example )➝

What is your inspiration?

These are the main pieces of equipment that I will be using for my shoot.

Production/Equipment Budget:

Canon 7D - £485

Tripod with slider - £74

SD Card - £3.26

Adobe Photoshop - £487

Schedule:

This is how my exhibition layout will be organised. I like this style as it allows the main focus on the best photographs and also gives enough area to cover my other photos. I will print the images out as card.

Exhibition Layout:

Will you use Adobe Photoshop/edit your images?

I was considering making some minor adjustments to my images in Adobe Photoshop, all whilst sticking to what I know so that I don’t get confused and end up making it a difficult process. However, I might not, depending on whether I’m happy how my unedited images turn out. So in conclusion, I will choose to keep my options open and just see how it goes.