Rational

Overall I am very pleased with how my book has turned out. I did a lot of research to help me gain ideas with my work. I looked in to book covers, layer outs, fonts, textures, ect. I also looked into different artists to help give me ideas on photographing my work, such as lighting and composition.

My idea for this work was to photograph the difference on Manchester in the day time compared to the night time. From this my idea got narrowed down to the clubbing and drinking in Manchester as I feel that’s what it is famous for. I picked this as I’ve had an interest in this idea for a while now and felt like I was ready to tackle in.

I approached my idea by focusing on parts on the city that was most interesting, such as buildings, roads, ect. My main focus was lighting as I feel the lighting is the key to my idea as day and night are completely different. I wanted to capture the night life being very busy and hectic like it is and for the day images to be empty and calmer.
I had a problem with my first shoot as my photographs were too pixelated when photographing in the dark. I researched the reasons behind this problem and over come it by changing my lens. This helped my work a lot as it made my photographs a lot clearer and lighter.

I have used a blog to help show my progress through out this module and looking back now I can see how much I have improved.
Even though it is the end of my module, I would like to carry on this body of work in my own time, and get even more photographs to fill up my book.

To conclude I am very pleased with my progress for this book, I feel I have ticked everything that should have been and I feel I have learnt a lot from this module, such as the technical side to photography. I am definitely going to carry on with this work as I have a real big interest in this idea.