The document summarizes the student's reflections on an experimental photography assignment. It discusses several types of photographs the student took, including reflections, movement, out of focus shots, and Hockney-style photomontages. For the reflections, the student felt one candid shot through glass came out best. For movement photos, they liked two blurry shots with lights and of a person walking. The out of focus images could have been improved with more interesting subjects beyond cars. The student felt the photomontage in the art gallery came out looking most like Hockney's work, with layered photographs.

1. Experimental Photography
Shannon
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2. Reflection

3. After looking through the reflection photographs I took, I believe this is the best one, as the
photograph is not posed for and is natural, so its more of a candid photograph and I think the candid
type are the best ones. While Chloe chose to look through her own photographs and I took the
opportunity to take the photograph through the reflection from the door glass, I think it looks better
than the rest as its more focused and you can still see through the glass and also what's behind
keeping what near the lens of the camera a tad blurry means you focus more of the reflection. I also
think this photograph is better as I was just messing around with the settings and what would be
good reflection.

4. I think the problem with the rest of the photographs I took of reflection is the lighting
and the movement of some, for example, the first photograph on the second row is
very dark, however the reflection looks pretty good, as you can see into a classroom
with the light on so is shows the reflection of a person, however I think the photograph
would look better if the lighting was adjusted to be brighter and also if it was more
focused on the writing on the board and to have the reflection on the man more
blurry, however I think this photo could be edited more so I could play around more
with the lighting and colours on Photoshop. Also the photograph with the door and fire
extinguisher is pretty bad quality, I think its too blurry and the ‘push’ materials didn’t
give much of a reflection as I thought it would, I think if I did think photograph again I
would put the camera in auto focus and get closer or zoom more to the surface to get a
better photograph. As these photographs are more about reflections, I kept the
exposure the same on all the photographs and kept the shutter speed short to capture
the photograph quick as if the shutter speed was long the photograph would end up
blurry as I did not have a tripod to keep the camera still and it would capture any
movement which could make the photograph look bad. Although most of the
photographs came out bad I thought the first and last photograph were the good ones
because unlike the locker and board, the lightening was really good so you could see
every detail and the photograph was clear and also because its not blurry like more of
the photographs as I think if they were any more blurry they would not look as good.
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5. Movement

6. Movement

7. I have chosen 3 images that I like the most, I like the more because these
ones were not expected as I was just playing around with the camera
settings. Although I'm not quite sure what the top two are pictures of I
think they show movement well, as the images are blurry, I especially like
the top right one, I had the camera on a low shutter speed and moved the
camera around fast, you can see the background of the photography
however its not very clear which makes the lines of lights stand out more
which gives it a better effect, I think I could edit this brightness and
colours more on Photoshop to make it more colourful. The one on the
bottom right, I took also having the camera on a low shutter speed and
made Chloe walk in front while the camera went off, I also had the camera
out of focus as I think it added to the movement of Chloe. However I don’t
like the lighting on this photograph as I think its not clear and looks a bit
orange, however playing around on Photoshop with all these photographs
would be best as I think they would end up looking better and more
colourful.

8. I think the movement photographs were quite easy because they did not take much
thought, you either moved the camera while taking a picture of leave the camera still while
taking a photograph with a low shutter speed. I think the photographs of the fire
extinguisher, green sign and the carpet were the worst ones because they were the first
ones I took and they just don’t look as good as others. I think they ones of Chloe moving
worked well because on some you can faintly see where she moved from before also I think
the lighting of the corridor made it look better as it helped you see the faint figure from
before. I think if I were to do this photography again, I would use the low shutter speed
more as all the photographs I took were done from moving the camera so I think using a
low shutter speed would be more professional and look better overall. I think if I had to take
these type of photographs again I would either take one in the day light outside down a
busy street and have the camera on a low shutter speed, this would capture the movement
of the people and cars down the street. I could also take one at night down a street or on a
bridge looking down onto a road with the camera on a low shutter speed which would
capture the light movement from the cars lights.
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9. Out Of Focus

10. Out Of Focus

11. I like this out of focus photograph more than the rest because the whole
photograph is out of focus yet you are still able to figure out what everything is. I
also this the raindrops are a good effect to the photograph as I think without them
it would be too boring and wouldn’t look as good. I still think the photograph could
be better as I could add more colour to it however I also think it would look good in
black and white.

12. I think this type of photography is harder than it looks because although the photographs just
needs to be out of focus it also needs to look professional, which is something my photographs
lack as I don’t think they look as good as they could. I think if I redid this type of photography I
would think more of what I could take the photograph of and something more different and
more interesting rather than a car park. However I do like the photograph of the bar with the
raindrops on because although they are not in focus you can tell what they are and its more
interesting rather than just a window, I'm quite glad it rained that day because I think the
raindrops made the photographs better and without them they would be quite boring. I also
think next time I would look for more interesting things to take photographs off instead of cars
because they did not really make the photograph more interesting.
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13. Hockney Photomontages

14. Hockney Photomontages

15. Hockney Photomontages

16. Hockney Photomontages

17. Hockney Photomontages

18. Hockney Photomontages

19. Hockney Photomontages

20. Hockney Photomontages

21. For the hockney photographs I chose to do two, one I did over the balcony of college and the other in the little art
gallery in college. I think they way that Photoshop have put the photographs together look really good especially the
one in the gallery on the left because I think it looks kind of like, the photo montage by David hockney, the one in
the city, as it looks more layered and looks like all the photographs are stuck on top unlike the balcony one, as this
one does not look layered, it looks flat, I just think the one on the left looks more professional, however I think this
type of work would look much better if we took the photographs and printed them on then actually cut them up and
stuck them on paper more like a collage, I think this would work better as I would prefer it more if I generated it
more than the computer as I could make it look more than how I want it to look. I think I could of improved this
technique by taking pictures of something more interesting like outside as then there will be more objects in the
photograph.

22. I think this type of photography went well however I think I would take more
photographs next time because with more photographs I think it would look more
layered and also look more interesting overall. The first set of photographs I took came
out blurry because I did not realise that I still had the camera in manual focus, I thought
about making a montage with the blurry photographs but I did not think they would
look that good, as you can tell from the bottom of the page where the blurry montage
is. I think the photomontage in the gallery worked the best because it looks m ore like
the other photomontages you see online as it has a more layered effect. I like the
gallery one more because I think the way the photographs have been put together
looks much more professional and more interesting overall. If I had to do this type of
photography again, next time I would pick more of an interesting place to take the
photographs, maybe outside, as I think there are a lot more objects and more
happening outside than the inside of the college. I would also take much more
photographs as I think then it would layer the photographs on top of each other more, I
would also print of the photographs and hand make a montage, to see how well it
would work and then scan the photomontage in to the computer.
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