"Wow, where to start. I'll start with the photography. Very high quality shots, powerful compositions and great use of shapes and colours. Your tech blog is an incredibly fun read, with nearly entirely you're own personal reflection and analysis, as fun as the diary type sections are, they don't really add to the subject of beauty photography ( I enjoyed reading them all the same) . As a piece of work that you will continue to develop and add to however, I think you will come to treasure this blog as brilliant resource for many shoots to come, please keep adding shoots as you do them and any photography notes too. A tremendous effort Nicola, you made my job of assessing this so easy as you worked so hard. well done."I can't begin to explain how happy I am with the grade I received. I've made it a point of not discussing what I get with other people because it's really none of their business. I had been disappointed with my other results and I was really hoping that I had done well with this unit. It was the blog I feel the most proud of. After a session with Sharon in which I had a mental breakdown because I had no clue in regards to approaching the workload, I managed to get it all sorted and I became really excited to show her my work. I got to include some of my favourite photographs. It became a home for my feeling and thoughts on fashion photography.
I'm truly chuffed. I didn't know how to use Photoshop and I was in full Big Bird flap mode when I begged a wonderful member of staff for some help on the day of hand in. Thankfully this wonderfully patient man taught me the basics of what was needed of me. Without him I would have well and truly fallen at this hurdle. Go Team Ken.
I'm terrified of the next Unit. I don't want to let myself down now that I've seen what I can achieve.
Things I want to improve:
- Time Management- I feel as though I could have produced better work in some areas of this unit had I planned more efficiently. So for this unit, I'm going to make a list of blogs I need to do and when I need to do them
- Push myself out of my comfort zone- I want to learn more complicated set ups and execute them confidently. I'm going to read more about lighting and the effects that you can achieve
- Be more proactive with my photography research. Instead of spending countless hours on Facebook procrastinating, I'm going to try and look at more photography work. Make notes of what I like and try and replicate elements of this.
- Do more test shoots. I was very lucky and managed to get all the photos for my assessment in one session. I realise that this was probably beginners luck and I can't rely on that to just pull me through. This also leaves more room for experimentation.
- Produce higher quality work. I need to pay more attention to small details on set. They are much easier to fix on set than they are to fix in post production.
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