Photography Evaluation

In this unit, we studied different techniques of photography. For each technique, there were different setting and shooting technique and by learning all these brought my photographic skills on higher level. After we went through different techniques we got a task to research on two photographic topics from which I chose to research about Music and Fashion Photography. As the final task of this unit, I had to research my own topic and create my own photographs.

I chose to photograph different graffiti. I produced a mind map and a video pitch as a part of my research towards graffiti magazines and I went to visit places in London that are connected the most to the graffiti. I visited South Bank skatepark and Waterloo Tunnel as these places were filled with every aspect of graffiti that I needed. These photographs are aimed for young people that are interesting in the art of graffiti. The magazines I chose to produce the photographs for are Inner City and Graffiti Art. My work was inspired by the work of famous graffiti artists such as Banksy, C215 and David Choe. From all those artists I feel like my work is the most similar to David Choe's work as he creates more of popular urban graffiti similar in a way to those I photographed. I consider my work to be urban styled, the usual classical graffiti you are able to find in skate parks and graffiti walls.

The technique I used for taking the pictures was wide angle to capture the whole drawings and also landscape to view the landscape of the whole skatepark/tunnel that I photographed the graffiti in. I used DSLR camera and also tripod. At the end of the photography process I edited them using photoshop and created video presentation. As I finished creating my video presentation of my graffiti photographs I asked for a feedback from my classmates.

As a result from the feedback I got I know I have to improve for next time to work more on the lighting of my photographs perhaps use better flash and also try to capture the photographs at places with more lighting. As for the positive feedback I did well at the locations and my own idea.