EVALUATION

SEEING IS BELIEVING EVALUATION

Out of the four projects we got set this year ‘Seeing is Believing’ was by far my favourite as I actually enjoyed sitting down and editing my images. This was quite a shock to me as before I came to Leeds I was strictly film based and had no time for digital or digitally manipulated images as I thought it was an easy way to a decent image. After completing this module I now know that is not that easy. Whether my opinion on whether overly edited images are still photos is another matter.
The biggest lesson that I am going to take away from this module is that you have to embrace new technologies and you have to keep your finger on the pulse when it comes to new trends in photography. Like I said before I used to be more into the older style of photos and thought I would only ever produce images in that style because they were so classic and timeless. I now realise that whilst they look good that was the style of the past and they should possibly stay in the past. I guess what I’m trying to say is that shots like those by Henri Cartier Bresson documented the past are fine and are now legendary but one day so will the shots that todays photographers take with todays technology. So I say embrace this technology and use it to create new and amazing imagery but just don’t be an idiot with it and use it to deceive people.
In terms of what I have learnt technically I have to say I haven’t learnt much, anything I have learnt I have either taught myself or a classmate has taught me. I feel what we were taught in our lessons was very poor and too basic and to be honest not nearly enough to complete a Digital Post Production module competently. I also feel like there were not enough scheduled lessons and that we were left to our own devices too much, freedom is good but everyone needs a little kick up the arse every now and again.
Anyway that’s my little rant over, I think the reason that I managed to keep my motivation up throughout this module is because what I decided to base my project on stemmed from some quite personal reasons and feelings, and without them I think I would probably have given up this module quite a long time ago.
I think if I was to do this project again I would only change a couple of things. One being, I would have used only images from disposable cameras in my video, purely for continuity. The only other thing I would have done differently would’ve been to make a special request that I could print my three final images bigger than A3 maybe A1 so I would get a really nice pixelated look to them.