Wednesday 26 February 2014

Presentation skills

 
 


 
Presentations help with my chosen field of work because in the future I will be expected to present my own work to future customers as I want to become a documentary photographer who focuses on anthropology, as I don't have very strong verbal communication skills when it comes to talking to people I just met this also helps me develop them.

































 
 
Im not very convident when it comes to presentations, so have this workshop on presentation skills helped a lot with all the imformation available.




Thursday 6 February 2014

street photography



I decided that I would do some street photography to become more confident while photographing people in public. So I went to Liverpool were I know the area pretty well this is where I spotted this band performing on the street.  





I find this photo to be one of my favorites because the man at the right was stood so close to the band I just had to get a photo. He looks to be listening to the music but not quite sure if he like it or not. I think since I listen to a lot of music I thought that this was interesting because everyone a has a certain taste and this man just did not know what he though of it. 


To be honest I actually enjoy photographing street performers because you get something over then people walking around, you get something different not just  people doing something that is interesting. 

Tuesday 4 February 2014

Grow Module


Goals
My personal goals in the short team are to become more confident with my photography and build up my portfolio so that I can have a strong collection of work to show. My long team goal is the travel the world show people what is happening in other countries I want to document what charities are doing to help those in need. This is because I have always been interested in other culture and other peoples thought on them so becoming a documentary photographer or a photojournalist would be my main goal. What I want from my studies is to build on my skills as a photographer. Also to expand on my knowledge in the photography world, at the end of my studies I hope to have a portfolio that will show the extent of my work and a chance to have a career in my chosen field. The part of the photography industry that I am aiming for is photojournalism or documentary photography. I would like to travel while document what other cultures are like. After studying photography at university I have no other planes to do any further education at the moment but this might change in the future. My goals for my career is to document other cultures but I want to document what charity work is doing for these cultures since I would also like to help out with charity while documenting what is happening and what they have done.  What I want to achieve in my career is to try to change people’s view of the world this is because I have never really understood why no one cannot fight I want people to understand others

Reality
In reality there are a lot of challenges that I need to meet and other come one of them is my shyness I don’t always feel confident enough to just go and photograph people in the streets. To be honest I have none done as much as I should have, I have become more confident with my camera when I am using it my photograph.  I do expect to meet other challenges for example I will need to build my portfolio that will help to attract the jobs that involve documentary photography. The steps that I need to achieve my goal are, build up a strong portfolio that show my interesting documentary photography and other cultures, I also need to have more of a understanding in what in need to do to et too my goal. My short team priority is to finish university with the grades that I want, my medium priority is to travel the world while trying to help others and my long term priority is to help other to understand other cultures and also to help with how people see each over. I would like to developed my photography skills in the way that I need to developed my communication skill while I am photographing other people, this is also a skill that I need to develop because you can’t  be a documentary photography  when your too shy to talk to the people you want to photograph.

Options
Over than documentary photography other culture around the world another option would be to document what charities do for others, kind of like showing others what the charity does, ether way I know that I want to do documentary photography I do enjoy doing other forms of photography but I find documenting things around me satisfying because I get to see the world in a new way. I don’t really have any other options that I have thought of. I think knowing another photography that has a great career in documentary photography and getting some helpful advice on how I can build up my own career. I currently volunteer at a charity shop and it does help me to become more confident when talking to strangest it has also given an insight to how the charity is run and how it helps people. I should be promoting myself through social website that can get people’s attention to what i am doing