final Evaluation

I started this project with the intention for my specialist field to be photography. This was going well until I discovered I am rather good at editing photographs on Photoshop. So I decided to change my focus from photography as a whole to just photo-manipulation within Photoshop. This allowed me to explore various styles and methods of manipulating an image into something amazing. This project has been by far the most enjoyable project for me this year. I have learned from my previous mistakes and not left everything to the last minute. Yet I didn’t realise how many images I have edited until I came to uploading them onto my blog towards the end of the project which has resulted in me having an unexpected amount of typing up to do near the end of the project. I have managed to get stuck into this project and complete more work at home than I have been able to in previous projects mainly because my work for this project is based on my laptop so I have been able to edit images whilst watching the telly etcetera. (I find editing photographs relaxing I think this is why I got carried away with the amount I’ve managed to do) The only thing I can think of that I would have liked to have done in this project was have done a photo shoot  in the studio of me and Anthony together but this wasn’t possible with Anthony’s college classes allowing no free time which can’t be helped. I was lucky enough to be able to take as many photographs as I wanted to when I was with him. I haven’t used every photograph I have of him in this project because there are some images I would like to keep for my personal life.  When it came to choosing my final piece I was stuck for choice which to choose, a magazine cover or wallpaper sample. In the end I chose magazine cover. The hard part was choosing between them I managed to narrow it down to two covers and I have decided to use them both for my final outcome for this project. Both of the magazine covers show a different side to Anthony which is why I couldn’t choose between the two. As for my final pieces I am really pleased with how they have turned out. Mainly because I enjoyed creating them and I think that it shows in the quality of the end product. Considering that each image took completely different amount of time to complete they have both turned out to such a high standard. The only way I would make my final pieces better is in some areas take more care to cut out some of the layers to achieve a consistent finish throughout the images. Having analysed my progress over this project I think that my work has improved dramatically from my previous projects. I think this is because I enjoyed the subject matter and I was able to find a medium that I have excelled at making this project my most successful project to date.  The only thing I need to work on is my time management when it comes to getting my annotations and text side of my projects done but I have improved on this from my last project.