The student took photos around Salford Quays focusing on the natural areas that are often overlooked. One photo showed a graveyard behind Media City to show an unseen part of the area. The student received feedback that some photos lost the theme, and could have used higher ISO settings since some photos were blurry or over-edited trying for a futuristic look. Strengths included varied angles and heights showing different views, while weaknesses were over-editing photos and blurriness from long shutter speeds without focus. The student aims to improve focus and avoid over-editing in the future.

1. Unit 57: Photography and Photographic
Practice
Selection of final images & review (P4,
M4, D4)
Image No:

4. Theme or focus of image & reasons for choice
The overall theme of my images is to show the natural side to Salford quays. I wanted
to bring across the areas that people miss and don’t take into consideration. An
example of this would be the image above this shows a grave yard behind media
city. This is a part of media city which not many people have seen and has gone un
noticed by passing people. The reason I went for this theme is so that people may be
attracted to the natural part instead of the extremely modernised media city and
lowery. The focus of the image above is the graveyard this is behind media city. The
building In the 5th
image is a quirky building with a view to make it iconic. I feel the
theme of my images came through quite strong however in some images seem to
lose the focus of the theme such as in image 4 the image is of a popular area and
this is not what my theme is.
Techniques Used
In my images the ISO was ok however it could have been higher as my images were
very bright. I feel like the shutter speed was on for too long as some off my Images are
very blurry. I did ad a blur effect however the original image was blurry as I didn’t
focus the camera properly. When taking my images I used a tripod a so my images
weren’t extremely blurry and my images would look more professional. In my images I
used the rule of thirds so that the main focus point was the part of Salford quays
which I wanted the viewers to see. Also when taking my images I went to different
heights so that my images were not just from a worms eye view and then the images
show off the area in a better light.
Strengths & suggested improvements
In my images I thought that a strength was the way my images show off Salford quays
from different angles and heights. The reason I thought this was because off the way
that some of my images looked. I used survey monkey to get feedback on my
images and people said that the different heights of my images show off Salford
quays very well. One of my questions was do you feel that my images are edited

5. correctly? However this turned out to be one of my weaknesses. During the editing
stage I changed the images quite allot because I tried to go for a futuristic approach.
However I feel that this didn’t come through in my images because 70% of people
thought that my images were over edited. Another strength to my images was that
my images were extremely varied as they showed off a wide area of Salford quays
this made my images look professional.
Editing details
When editing my images I loaded them into Photoshop 1 by 1. I then continued to
change the contrast and brightness of the image to make the image look more
appealing. My intension was to go for a futuristic look so that the area looks more
interesting. However it came out wrong because I over edited them and they ended
up looking really bad. I added a blur effect around the edges because then the area
that I want people to see stands out more.
Capture Log
Setting Shutter Speed ISO Aperture
Manual
Manual
Manual
Manual
Manual
Manual
Manual
Manual
Manual
Manual
Exposure time-
1/320sec
Exposure time-
1/320sec
Exposure time-
1/320sec
Exposure time-
1/320sec
Exposure time-
1/320sec
Exposure time-
1/320sec
Exposure time-
1/320sec
Exposure time-
1/320sec
Exposure time-
1/320sec
Exposure time-
ISO – 800
ISO –800
ISO –800
ISO –800
ISO –800
ISO –800
ISO – 800
ISO –800
ISO –800
ISO -800
Aperture- 4.8
Aperture-4.8
Aperture-4.8
Aperture-4.8
Aperture-4.8
Aperture-4.8
Aperture-4.8
Aperture-4.8
Aperture-4.8
Aperture-4.8

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