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My work experience booklet. For my work experience I wanted to experience what it would be like to be a self employed photographer. So I set about contacted local business and asking if they would like any photos taken for their business. I heard back from TomatoJack Arts in Berkeley and The Equine Eye Clinic in Wotton-Under-Edge. Both companies were pleased with the work I produced for them and ended up paying me for my services. From his experience I feel as though I have gained some understanding on how to be a self employed photographer by; working to deadline, meeting a clients brief, working on your own in new environments, planning ahead for a shoot and bringing all of the necessary equipment and presenting myself in a professional manner.

Final project self evaluation.

These are my final images, printed and mounted on foam board ready to be put up on the wall for the end of porject exhibition. I chose for them to be printed this size to ensure that the audience could easily see all three images at the same time, which is neccessary because they all connect together.

I produced a wide variety of images and had a lot of material to create edits from. The mirrored surreal edits I produced worked effectively on this shoot becaise the images consist of a lot of geometric lines which compliment the mirroring effect.

Luckily this shoot is not lost as I also shot on my DSLR camera incase of this very outcome. This is something that I will continue to do when shooting on film in the future as the outcomes aren’t always as reliable as a digital camera. 

120mm medium format film image taken on a Yashica Mat camera. This image shows the 4 coloured masks that I used for this shoot.

I feel as though these images are successful as they show that I have considered and had in mind my outcome from the start of this shoot rhough to the final outcome: the masks (symbolising disembodiment and lack of identity) matching the graffit and the subsequent blocks of colour matching both of these things. 

My favourite images of the red mask, edited in Photoshop CC to further bring out the colour by slightly increasing the saturation. I also increased the clarity, reduced the highlights and also crushed the blacks slightly.

My favourite images of the green mask, edited in Photoshop CC to further bring out the colour by slightly increasing the saturation. I also increased the clarity, reduced the highlights and also crushed the blacks slightly.

My favourite images of the yellow mask, edited in Photoshop CC to further bring out the colour by slightly increasing the saturation. I also increased the clarity, reduced the highlights and also crushed the blacks slightly.

My favourite images of the blue mask, edited in Photoshop CC to further bring out the colour by slightly increasing the saturation. I also increased the clarity, reduced the highlights and also crushed the blacks slightly. 

I created so many contact sheets so that I could make a well thought out decision about which images would work best for my final piece. From these contact sheet I then narrowed it down to my favourite few. 

My favourite edited pictures from this location in Cheltenham. I chose this location for the bold and colourful grafitti which makes the images really striking and draws the attention of the viewer. 

Edited shoe pictures. My focus for these images was to get the contrast of the shoes and the grass, I used depth of field to make some of the fore-ground grass and flowers out of focus so I could keeop the attention on the shoes. I may use these photos in a series of 2 or 3 images with similar surreal edits.

Some edited images from my shoot with model Alex in Cheltenham. This location was a gazebo in a park; when composing these pictures I used the symmetry of the steps and railings to create lead lines which draw in the eye of the viewer. I like my use of levels and the perspectives I have used. For the lsat image I used a wide 10mm lens up close to the model to create a warped our of perspective effect, this is something that I will utilise when producing my surreal images.

A selection of my seven favourite images from this shoot, I really like the colours that came out as they add a beauty to the otherwise ‘souless’ and industrial landscape/

Some of my favourite edited pictures from my photoshoot down at the Sharpness docks. I went in the early evening so that I could catch the sunset, which created beautiful colours in the sky and was am aesthetically pleasing contrast between the dark/silhouetted shapes of the old cranes.