Project evaluation

I thoroughly enjoyed this project as I was able to have creative freedom and photography the subject I want to. I picked a subject I personal level as it’s something I’ve always wanted to. Comparing nature to industrial has allowed me to capture interesting photos. Throughout the project I dabbled in both film and digital as I want to see the different types of images I can create.  I personal prefer digital as I believe it’s more accessible and easy to work with. I mainly photographed in landscape format as it frames the locations in the best way as its most commonly associated with the type of photography I’m capturing. My favorite location was Kirkstall in Leeds as the Abbey there is beautiful and I used both digital and film to capture this location.  During the photographing process of the project I used a manual setting on every one of my cameras as it gives me more control of how the picture turns out. When on location mainly picked out the vibrant colours to use thought the images to make the images appealing and attract the viewer’s attention to different parts in the image.  All my photo shoots were in my personal time and with my own equipment however there is one location I visited with college which was York. This was an interesting trip that allowed me to capture a wide range of images including both industrial and nature elements. I was influenced a lot by the work of the photographers I researched as there work is colorful and imaginative. This is something I worked to applied to my images to make them appealing. My best images I believe were the ones were I included the two elements of industrial and nature as this is where the best comparisons can be seen. My main goal is to people to look at my work and compare the elements and locations that I have photographed. The objects I mainly used were buildings and plant life as these two belong to the theme/ concepts I photographed. Another idea I wanted to showcase in my work is how people interact and use the location, this was different in each location. In Bradford there were many people especially around the many shopping parts of the city, this was nearly the same as Leeds however there more variation of location and people in Leeds. Both York and Kirkstall were slightly different to Leeds and Bradford, this was because they were less people are most people were where tourists visits. For each one of my images I photographed in a documentary style as to frame and create interesting images.  My main target audience is people who visit locations, for example a visitor’s center where my images could be either on a postcard or travel books, this is mainly tourists which is either family’s and people who like to explore. I picked this audience as it gives my images access to a wide range of audience. My primary research began when I was scouting the location of Bradford as even though I know the location I was looking at the buildings, I did this to see going forward how I would photograph  and the way I will construct the elements in my images. While on location I looked also how people used the type of location. All of this influenced my photography during this project.