Evaluation LO5.2 and LO5.3

After reading my brief I made SWOT diagrams to generate Ideas for what I could take photographs of. I came up with four separate ideas as to what I could do. I then sent them to my client and asked for a response as to what they thought would be the best idea and most practical and successful. My client and I thought that photographing students working and doing certain activities outside of lessons would be the best idea.

I chose to photograph students outside of lessons as my client and I both thought that it would be a good way to show the work ethic of students at the College when they aren’t in lessons. Also it by seeing photographs of students doing work outside lessons it may encourage students that might not be as motivated towards doing work outside of lessons.

Research for my project was fairly important. I had to research into unstaged photography so that I understood exactly what I had to do to complete the brief. Also researching helped me to make a plan and come up with ideas for my project so that I could work hard on it and make sure that it was to a high standard that my client would appreciate.

The Production process was highly successful. Due to researching I was able to take my photographs quickly and easily, also making sure that they were good quality. It took me a short amount of time to take my photographs with left me with more time on the written side of the project. I thought the whole production process went extremely well, especially editing the photographs as I knew exactly how I wanted them to look.

During the production process I had a slight problem finding people to photograph. This is because either they didn’t want to be photographed as they knew the photographs were going on display or there weren’t many people around that were doing the type of things that I wanted to photograph. I overcame this by going out on different days to find people who were willing to be photographed.
I developed some more photography skills during this project. I have rarely used shutter speeds in the past and I had to use them a lot for this project as I had to take many different actions shots that wouldn’t have worked without a certain shutter speed.

I thought the final outcome of my project was very successful. My photographs came out extremely well after being edited. Also my client was very happy and impressed with the final photographs that I produced. If I were to undertake a similar project to this in the future I would do more planning for my production process. I was organised, however I found that I struggled to take photographs on the days that I had planned to, therefore I would go out and make sure that on the days I would want to take photographs that there are going to be plenty of people that are willing to have their photographs taken.