Evaulation

The scenario was we had been approached by www.a-n.co.uk to put together a blog that would document our work, experiments, ideas, and our research for their next issue.

The purpose of having a blog is to update people on your thoughts and feelings, photos or even on ideas you have as an artist or to publish work that you have done. I think that using a blog helps document work that I have done which gets set out on a layout where the public can view everything I have achieved. I think I would consider using a blog in the future as I find it very useful.

My main influence for this project was Richard Billingham. His photos of his parents portray his home life, referencing his identity. Dinu Li creates a moment, captures that moment through photography,  and places the photograph in the same place that it was taken.

My research has had an impact on my digital experimentation because I have took into account the meaning behind the work and incorporated it into my own work. Richard Billingham uses things and people to show his identity, just like I have used items that belong to me and make me who I am.

The techniques I have used in Photoshop:

-Hue/Saturation

-Layering Images

- Brightness/Contrast

-Filtering

-Lasso Tool

-Text

I also used iphoto/imovie, I added my digital images into imovie and converted them into a short film by cropping, changing the length to create a short film. I think using a series of images that all combine to make a film works well.

I am pleased with my outcomes and my experiments, if I were to do this project again I think I would experiment more with Photoshop and play around with more tools to try and get more effects. I really enjoyed using Photoshop as you can get different results everytime.