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Amy JamesIntro to Photography / Graphics
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Tropical World
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For the 3rd week’s project, the theme “tropical world” was introduced using the technique of shutter speed. Though the idea of the topic was to visit Tropical World in Leeds, I actually visited Eden Project in Cornwall – which essentially offers the same things such as plants, waterfalls, etc. except on a much bigger scale. I abso-lutely loved Eden Project and any lover of photography must experience it. I went with my brother’s family, including my 10-year-old niece as a day out. Therefore again, there wasn’t planning as such involved because it was a fairly spontaneous trip. As like with the Urban Landscape project, there weren’t many risk assessments or safety issues as such except protecting your equipment from water, crowds, etc.
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Being my biggest set of images from the entire module, it’s safe to say I produced a great amount of photos, which was quite time consuming choosing which images were the best/most appropriate to use. I’ve found it’s a great way of criticising and evaluating your own work – much like choosing a set of images for a portfolio, being hard on your self I feel is important. From the set, I have a few favourites that stand out. Focusing on shutter speed and depth of field mainly, I tried to capture wasps and bees surrounding the photos. Looking at the images now it’s obvious I’ve taken to a shallow aperture to focus on the flowers, whilst using a fairly high shutter speed of around 1/200 to capture the insects landing on the flowers, whilst keeping the ISO at a minimum as the light inside was overwhelming. I think in particular these are my favourite images of the set and I was really pleased with them. Going to Eden gave me a new love for natural pho-tography, I feel I have matured within my work and become more open to new ideas. As shallow thought as it is, flowers never interested me before visiting Eden – I’m glad my opinion has been changed for the better!
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As the weather worked in my advantage, I got some beautiful shots in the sun. From remembering work during “natural and artificial light”, I always think ahead how I’m going to position the object to the background, e.g. a flower in front of sun-light will produce a silhouette. Learning, remembering and practising this has helped improve my skills and initial planning thoughts as a photographer. As the weather stayed the same during the day, it kept me focused on what I was doing rather than fiddling with settings. Criticising myself however, I feel I didn’t ad-equately use shutter speed to its full advantage and concentrated more on the aper-ture. When discussed in a lesson, it was said that we could swap a couple of tech-niques that we were assigned to certain themes. For example, instead of concen-trating on shutter speed with “tropical world”, we could perhaps concentrate on it more with “sports”. I struggled to capture the waterfalls at Eden without a tripod, which I regret not taking. But overall, I was extremely pleased with my images and really enjoyed myself on the day out. I would say this was one of my favourite pro-jects out of the module.
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