The student learned a lot about magazine conventions and techniques for photography and image editing from their preliminary college magazine task to the final product. They gained skills in composition, lighting, and camera settings that improved their photos. Editing tools in Photoshop helped manipulate images professionally. Attention to layout improved as the student learned to balance elements like headlines and graphics better in the final product.

1. Q7: looking back at your preliminary task, (college magazine) what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
Since carrying out my preliminary task I have learnt a lot about the many ways magazines
use conventions to create a product that represent different social groups. There is a clear difference
in my digital photography from when I first started the project with my initial ancillary page to my
finished product page. I think that once I had learnt about techniques such as composition, lighting
and rule of thirds I was able to apply this into taking more developed images. In my ancillary project I
used the camera in automatic mode and because of this I did not get the shots I wanted so had to
spend a lot of time editing the basic features of the image in order to improve the quality. In the
final product I used the camera in manual mode so that I could fully control all of the settings and
the result where an image that I liked and did not have to spend much time editing. In terms of
editing I think that I have learnt a lot more techniques in Photoshop such as the liquify tool, puppet
warp, patch tool and curves. These manipulation techniques helped me create professional looking
images. I think that in my ancillary project I did not pay enough detail into where all of the different
elements such as cover lines, headlines, titles and graphic features where placed, as I think it is not
well balanced. In my final product I paid a lot more attention into lining all of the different elements
up and using the rulers and zoom tool and frequently zooming in out making sure the page was well
presented.