Final images

For my final images I decided to shoot buildings in a certain location in Preston town, the main focal point being the Harris Museum. When out shooting these images, using the Harris museum as the main focal point I photographed different angles of this building, and then photographed different aspects of the town around the museum, things such as different buildings around it, the guild hall etc. From developing my shoots further from my experimental shoots I have shot a successful set of images within photographing for my final images. As it wasn't complete daylight whilst shooting this images I had to use a wide aperture and an ISO of about 400, as well as capturing some moving objects within the images which meant I have to use fairly fast shutter speeds to capture them still and not capture the movement. 

What I will do with these images is present them as an installation. My plan for this is to print them out and remove some parts of the images, which may include just leaving certain things within the images, cutting out the sky or some buildings so there are certain aspects that stand out. With this I will create a joiner style piece but as an installation but only choosing a certain amount of images from this shoot. As some of the images will over lap with some aspects of them I will place them in a good position to make it look as though to show them the same thing has been photographed from different distances and angles and I will also show the harris museum from different angles as well as this being the main focal point of the piece and the rest around it showing this building and all the interesting things around it. I feel that this idea will work out as a successful final image and will be presented well and interestingly. 

Shoot 2

For my second experimental shoot I went to Manchester to shoot images of more buildings. Moving on from my first experimental shoot I feel I have developed on further in photographing different buildings working towards creating images for my final piece. Throughout this body of work I have photographed many successful images. I feel I used good composition whilst taking these images. I had to use a wide aperture and a high ISO whilst shooting most of these as it started to get dark therefore the camera settings I had for the first few images would not of worked and would of produced very dark images, therefore I used these settings to create the correct exposure. Doing this shoot has given me a bigger body of work and more experience and experimental work towards creating my final images.

Digital media

Digital media is used in photography in many ways, for example within this magazine cover photoshop has been used within it, by being used to edit the model as well as to help create the magazine cover by adding in the text etc. Using photoshop within this kind of advertisement has its advantages such as using the tools to edit the celebrity within the image, tools such as airbrush will be used, which works to an advantage because it will help to create a better look and sell the magazine, but on the other hand is sending out a bad message as its not all true. Photoshop is also used as an advantage within this advertising purpose because within it we can do suff such as make the title look as if it is behind the person on the cover, which makes it look more realistic and professional.

Another example I have found is this McDonalds advertisement where photoshop is used massively to help advertise one of their burgers. Within this advertisement photoshop has been used to turn the fish bowl into the shape of a burger, but with the water and the fish still inside it to represent the 'Filet-O-Fish' burger, this has been used to a good effect because it will bring in an audience, its something that is out of the ordinary and photoshop has contributed towards this, by creating something that could never be created by hand but only by digital media.