For this project we had to make an E-zine, taking pictures
of all around Weymouth, and for each zine we needed a theme for our zine and
for my zine I decided to choose the theme of creative, for my e-zine I had 8
pages and the document size was a4, one issue that I kind of had with the a4
dimension was the size of the pictures I had taken, so it lead to me resizing
some of the images to suit the dimensions of the pages, we were also able to go
on two shoots to take photos for the e-zine to get some pictures for the
e-zine.
For this project we had to make an e-zine which contained
pictures from around Weymouth, the e-zine also had to have some kind of theme
to it as well and the theme I chose for my e-zine was “creative”, after
creating the e-zine we had to upload the e-zine to a website called www.issuu.com
When I was planning my project and thinking about what I
could base my e-zine on at the start of this unit I wasn’t sure about what to
do and how my e-zine would look, but after doing research I was able to decide
what it would look like, before we went on the second shoot I was able to
decide on the theme for my E-zine as well which was creative and on the second
shoot I was able to think about that a lot more, this was a good thing that I
had a theme because I was able to think about it and also set myself an
objective on what to think about when taking my photos.
When I was deciding on what theme to do I thought creative
would be a good idea as it would be a chance to use different angles, and this
was a good theme especially after the research on the tilt shift effect which
also helped me choose the creative theme
During my research for the project I decided to look at a
photographers work and the photographer I chose to research more about was
called Olivio Barbieri and the technique he uses is called “Tilt shift”, and
this effect makes a picture of something real look more like a model/toy:
After looking more at tilt shift images and Olivio’s work I
decided to try and make this tilt shift effect myself, however after finding
out that these tilt shift images were taken with a tilt shift lens, but after
some research I was able to find a tutorial on how to recreate this effect in
Photoshop and so I was able to learn that effect and use it more, but usually
in some of my images they weren’t really good for the tilt shift effect so
instead I used certain parts used in the tilt shift effect to make the images
look nicer e.g. using the blur or change in levels for the colours.
The edit (how I decided to edit my photos, talk about how I
wanted to try out a tilt shift effect or more of a blur to show the main part
of the photo):
The effects I used for my images were mainly inspired by
Olivio Barbieri and he took photos using a tilt shift lense, and although I
didn’t have a tilt shift lense Iwas able
to make a tilt shift effect in photoshop adding blurs changing
contrasts/levels.
After the research at first I looked through my photos I had
taken to choose what photos I would use in my E-zine, and then with the rest of
the photos I didn’t need and then arranging the photos separately, also I
looked at different ways to present the E-zine, originally I had the pages full
of a few pictures however that changed to just one or two to make the E-zine
look simple but effective with the images used as well as the positioning of
each image, also after the first shoot I only had a few good images and this
was mainly because I didn’t really know what I was looking for and how I would
take certain pictures, so then we also were able to go on a second shoot and on
that shoot I knew what pictures I was taking and how I would take those photos
and what techniques I could use and what kind of angle to take the pictures
from so the second shoot was much better with me being able to choose more
pictures to use for the final edit as well as still using some images from the
first shoot.
The font I used for the e-zine was Impact, this was the only
kind of font I used just to keep the same feel of the e-zine throughout, also the
font I think helped suit my e-zine’s theme, as the font added more of an
impact, but it was simple but effective, also the reason I chose the impact
font was because I felt that was really the only font that suited my E-zine and
it’s theme and I felt If I used a different font it could slightly ruin the
effect for the E-zine.
The reason I chose the positioning for the images was
because I didn’t want the e-zine to look to cramped and also I wanted to make
it have an impact with not many pictures but it would also be more effective,
the images at first were more cramped but now they are spaced around more with
different positions for the images so having one image in the top left and also
in the bottom right on a separate page, the reason I decided to go with the
simple one or two images per page was because it looked slightly more effective
and it meant it was easy to look at without everything being all cramped on to
one page and to make it look unique on each page.
Ethical/legal considerations (copyright of the images? And
for things like ethical issues talk about what it represents, also how there shouldn’t
be any ethical issues or copyright issues):
Although there could be legal or ethical issues with many
pictures, it seem my e-zine/photos I have taken won’t or aren’t effected by
legal issues such as copyright as the photos I have taken were taken by me and
are all original, and there shouldn’t be any ethical issues, so my e-zine
should be fine as there won’t be any religious issues or any other kinds of
ethical issues.
Overall I have learnt a lot from this, such as learning
photo techniques, and also throughout this assignment learning how to take
photos which will help with my e-zine as well as learning some Photoshop skills
to help edit my final pictures.
I think this assignment has overall gone well except one
issue I had was one the first shoot I wasn’t really sure how to take photos
very well but by the second shoot I had learnt some more skills when taking
photos so the second shoot was much more successful.
The images I feel overall suited my theme well, and
especially after the edit I feel they looked a lot nicer and did suit my
creative theme.
