This week we continued our work from last week on ‘Stories of the City’. As I already had my interview material and photos, I learnt how to optimise my photographs this week.
During the workshop we played around with photoshop and grasped how to light and colour correct images. I found this really interesting and useful for the future, especially when it comes down to doing my project as I will be able to use a picture even if the original photo was too dark as I am able to optimise it. I also found out about rating images and how to decided which are best to use. This is something I was happy to learn more on as I am very indecisive person. It was really useful to remind myself of the correct sizes that images such be for certain mediums as I tend to forget sometimes when I am putting an article together.
1024 x pixels wide for online.
I found the composition in cropping quite a hard concept to grasp but I am hopeful that it will become more clear over the coming weeks and with more practice.
After the presentation and playing around with photoshop, I rated my pictures from last week and chose the best two to put in my article. I then optimised them and resized them in photoshops and exported it to my wordpress post. I enjoyed writing up my interview with Aldyth and deciding where was best to place my photographs.
I have also been putting more thought and planning into my project this week by deciding that I am going to go with my third idea of ‘The Misconception of Skateboarding’ and creating a list of potential sources to interview.
Here is my list so far:
Oka Harhalakis – A skateboarder from London
Alex Petz- A skateboarder from Leeds
Chester Molyneux- A skateboarder from Bristol
Ellie Bagshaw Photography Journalism 