For the start of this module we researched fine art photography and looked at some great examples and artists that work in Fine art photography. When we were confident in understanding some of the basics to do with Fine art photography we created a short research report on it to stick into our sketchbooks.
As a class we examined the new cameras we had been given to use in this module, the teacher gave us instructions on how to use them, he told us how to correct the white balancing, how to delete pictures, how to take pictures, how to zoom in and out etc even though i had already been taught the basics of using a camera in year 10, it was still quite confusing for me since the camera was new to me with new buttons and functions but i still managed to catch on fast enough.
Once i was confident enough in using the new cameras, i was given the task to take pictures of things that relate to the topic of control but also make them as artistic and creative as possible by using my photography skills to make my pictures look more professional instead of random pictures of things, to do that i made sure i judged the lighting, angle, focus and colour when capturing my picture. I took pictures of things such as fire alarms, locks, pencils, computers, lights, doors, walls, people playing football and other things relating to 'Control'. Computers and doors were the most difficult to take pictures of because it was hard to get good angles on them without the focus going wrong, but things such as locks and pencils were easy to focus on and find good angles for them.
After i had finished taking all my pictures, i filed through them and deleted all the ones that weren't very successful or were just completely terrible so that next lesson i could edit my best pictures using photoshop and then print them to stick into my portfolio.
