Camera:
The camera I used for this was my Canon
40D with a Helios 58mm lens. This lens was created in the 1960’s and still
holds up to this day competing with some of the higher range camera lenses on
the market currently. I chose the 40D mainly because It was an easily
accessible camera as I already owned it. However I also wanted to take
advantage to of the 10.1 megapixel sensor and get the highest quality images
possible from my magazine. My decisions regarding camera lens were mainly
related to the fanzine structure, I wanted to use a vintage lens from the
previous millennium as to create the same image stylization that was common
throughout the late 70’s early 80’s. I also really liked the mid length of the
lens at 58mm, this created a natural look as it was very similar to the normal
field of human view so the subject was not distorted in any way leaving all
features intact. The lack of any automatic features on this lens also meant
that I had to increase my skills in light registry and learn how to correctly
expose images without the help of the automatic features that come with the
camera. I feel learning this also helped my magazine increase in realism as
there was a lot of practical elements to my magazine, common throughout the
years in which fan-zines were
in
their peak.
Photoshop:
Over the course of my work I have
massively improved my Photoshop
skills. Going into this task I had little to no knowledge on how to use
Photoshop (as shown by my preliminary) an now I feel I can confidently
manipulate images into a plethora of situations and to my desire. The version
of Photoshop we use was CS6, Although not the most in date product it is still
the industry standard meaning my skills learnt are directly applicable to real
life situations. I mainly improved my skills of editing images by learning
about blending, layer masks an adjustment layers. Now after completing my
product I feel I have a high understanding of the functions in Photoshop an am
able to complete most tasks to an extent.
Other Technologies:
I have also used multiple different
websites and technologies throughout my coursework. I have used blogger
constantly as it lets me consistently update my work and gives an easy way of
tracking my progress through the constant log of posts made that I can scroll
through. Blogger is also where my teachers have logged the work set for us
meaning that it is a consistent way for us to know what we need to do
consistently. I have also learnt how to use scribd to embed word documents onto my blog. Dafont is
an extremely helpful website as a bank of thousands of different type faces all
royalty free. This helped me browse font to use and ultimately enabled me to
follow the themes of my based genre. As a result of this website I also have
learnt how to apply new fonts to the Mac operating system, something I was
unaware of until this task was set. I
also learnt how to navigate and utilize websites suck as UK tribes which
through this allowed me to efficiently set a baseline for my research and
planning and find out more about my target audience directly. I have also used Dropbox,
this software allowed me to upload images I wanted to use for my magazine
directly without any loss of quality that may be achieved through using a
website like Flickr that compresses images to within a certain scale. Dropbox also
enabled me to research from home and upload any images or large files to use at
school that could not be directly uploaded to blogger.
No comments:
Post a Comment