Final evaluation

FINAL PROJECT EVALUATION 

Throughout my project I had to do many different, small tasks. They all helped me to understand the title of the project 'old meets new'. 

I had to do many researches to get an idea of what I was supposed to do and to improve my work. I've learned about new techniques which helped me to improve my photography and photoshop skills, like Juxtaposition, Hockney joiner, overlaying textures and creating borders, panoramas, colour popping and pinhole. I also learned more about film cameras by taking photos with black&white and colour film.

I've looked at many artists, photographers and art movements and I wrote down my research in my visual diary. It helped me to understand their work and how to create different images. It was very important for me when I was researching darkroom techniques because I had no idea what to do and how to start. By looking at their work, I learned how to be creative with my work.

The only thing I would like to do more throughout the project if I had a chance to, would be experimenting with darkroom and darkroom photos. I don't think I have enough experience to be confident with doing that kind of stuff. I would love to have a chance to paint with a developer, burn the negs, scratch them or create a photogram but because we didn't have enough time in the darkroom I only managed to do double exposure and sandwiching negs. I would really like to improve my darkroom work and I hope I will have a chance to do it in the future.

I'm happy with work on my blog but I don't think I've done enough in my technical and darkroom folders. I would like to improve that. I'm happy with the quality of work in my technical folder/visual diary but I think I could write down more researches and explanations in there. I'm quite happy with how my negs came out especially after I scanned them all. 

I enjoyed the trip to Leeds and going to the darkroom. It was my first time using a colour film and I think I enjoyed it a little bit more than b&w. 

I improved my photoshop work and I can finally say that I'm more comfortable with using and experimenting with it. 

I'm still not that confident with working with a film camera but I'm trying to get used to it. I've learned how to set up the camera for the best results and I still try to experiment with it. Also the opportunity I had, to take that kind of a camera home and take some photos by myself gave me a chance to try out new things and be creative. 

Overall, I think this last project was the one that I've enjoyed the most, we had a lot of time to finish our tasks and to do some extra work. The tutors helped us to manage our time by going with us through every single bit of the project every now and then and by giving us small deadlines so the work didn't get mixed up. I enjoyed every single bit of it, even though I don't really enjoy working in the darkroom for a long period of time. I've learned so many things and I hope to learn even more about photography next year.