Evaluation Question 6

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

For the majority of my magazine I used Adobe Photoshop Elements to produce the pages I needed for my magazine. I had not had a lot of experience with the programme but with practice and help I managed to learn the basic’s to develop my product. With Photoshop I learnt how to ‘cut’ out an image such as a person and then use another background for the image to lie on. Within my magazine I also included the opacity tool to create the effect photos were fading out into the background and so to make them less bold. After experiencing the programme for several weeks I became a lot more accustom to it and found it easier to work with. I also found out how to do various other effects on Photoshop; such as the enhancing and brightness tool, and changing the filters of photos.

I also used various online editing sites (Picnik and Rollip). I used these for the filters on my images. I learnt how to use the contrasts and brightness on these sites to get the filters to look how I wanted them to look on the photographs.  

I also used my mobile phone to transfer the work I did at home to the computers at school. I Have never tried this before but I found it quite easy and simple; like using a memory stick.

 

The camera I used was DSLR which i borrowed from a friend. I had never used a camera like it before and found it incredible to use. I tried out different effects and focusing which made the photographs look professional. I did learn about the compositions and positions of the model when taking the photograph and how to focus on different elements of the shot.

It was quite difficult to take a show when outside and using sunlight because of the shadows and in many of my shots I could see my own shadow over my model which did not look very professional, so it took some time for my sort out the perfect place to stand and take the picture effectively for the shot. Here is an example of a shot that i struggled to take of because of the sunlight.