#capturetooutput

The colour managed workflow

Capture: the capture stage requires a photographer to take an exposure. you can choose the resolution and file type, you can choose between RAW or JPEG. 

Import: importing requires a photographer to take the exposure and upload it onto a computer making it a file such as a JPEG, CAMERA RAW to TIFF. importing allows the image to be moved to different sources for editing. you can choose the file name

Editing: editing is the phase where you choose the best images which will be taken forward and you may either keep or delete images that are not used. You can in software like bridge and Lightroom star rate you images so you may decide your best images. 

Optimise: allows a photographer to create and upgrade the desired image, wither that be through cropping, changing tones or exposure, editing the presence etc. This allows a photographer to create a perfect image. image optimisation is about reducing the file size down enough but keeping the quality so it doesn't take up enormous amounts of space and can be stored elsewhere. You can make batch adjustments 

Export: image exporting is about reducing the file size down enough but keeping the quality so it doesn't take up enormous amounts of space and can be stored elsewhere. You can make also batch adjustments. Exporting is the penultimate stage in this process, it is when you must send your edited and optimised image to store, this can be in a hard drive, on a computer or external drive.

Review of my workflow on the Alphabet City Project.

Capture

I took the images on my canon 550d using an 18-55mm lens and changing aperture and focus length as required for the composition of each different shot.

Import

I then plugged my camera directly into my laptop where I was then able to select the photos from my camera that I wanted to import then straight into my general photos gallery.

Edit

To refine which photos I wanted to use for my final submission I carefully went through them and picked the ones I liked most to put together in a separate album making them more easily accessible.

Optimise 

To optimise the final images I used VSCO as I didn't yet have an adobe Lightroom or Bridge account. I found this a bit messy and counterproductive as I found myself losing images or not knowing which ones I had optimised yet due to them all being in different places with some in Photos app and others on VSCO 

Export 

I didn't find myself to have a good exporting process with lots of the photos being in different places I was jumping back and forth to ensure they were all the same file type. I ended up collaging all of the images together using pic collage which I'm not sure was ideal when it comes to image quality and presentation. 

Output 

For final use I uploaded the pic collage I had created to my tumblr blog. 

Conclusion

Today in class: I went into the download room and wrote more on my capture and output report on the computer.

Tuesday 5th of November - Location class

Tuesday 29th of October - Location class

Today in class: Just spoke about where we are in folio 1, and then started to talked about a new project called Capture and Output.

The images above are the capture and output brief.