FMP Evaluation

To evaluate your project properly is a large part of your mark and a skill that you will need
throughout your education.
You will need to produce a typed/handwritten evaluation for your final images and outcomes.
You must explain how your ideas have developed and the process you undertook to produce
them.
• Present this page neatly in your book with a title such as 'FMP Evaluation'.
• You need to include visuals (photos) of your outcomes to support your evaluate (reference
the final images and the making process) Below are the question you need to answer about
the FMP project;

1. What was the project theme and what did you think of it?
My project theme was natural form and I based it on the mystery behind nature. I really liked
this project more than I thought I would. At the beginning of the project, I wasn’t too sure on
what I wanted to take photos of but after the first photoshoot I got into it more and figured
out what path I wanted to go down.

2. Which photographers/ artists did you use as inspiration for your own work? How did their
style of work help develop your own outcomes throughout the project and final images? (eg.
Colour/ theme/ photographic techniques/ lighting/ composition etc.)
The first photographer that I researched was Eliot Porter. He takes photos of passage ways
and colourful places around the world. I really liked the work he done but I soon changed my
ideas on what I wanted my project to be on. My whole project is on mystery and pathways/
portals etc, so Eliot’s work helped me start it all off. Another photographer I looked at that
helped me decide to do black and white photos was Teri Varhol. She focused on the random
light and the detail of the night in a series of hers. The third photographer that changed the
way I took my photos was Gregory Crewdson. He stages his photos which is different to
mine but one thing he does is focus on the twilight timing which affected my work in a
positive way. I began taking my pictures in the dark instead of day time to try and encourage
the viewers to think about what’s around in the night when you can’t see perfectly. These
photographers really helped me with my project and my final pieces as they lead me down a
path of mystery and what could be around of a night time.

3. What photographic techniques have you sued when carrying out your photoshoots (eg.
Shallow/wide depth of field/use of different perspective/slow shutter speed/ editing ect.)
Some techniques that have played a big part in my photos include; using flash, shallow depth
of field, quick shutter speed and editing. I used a flash for a lot of my photos as the majority
was taken in the dark. I also used a quick shutter speed for this as I didn’t want my images to
come out too bright and I didn’t want a blurred picture.

4. Did you take your images in colour or a mixture of colour and monochrome? Why did you
choose this colour?
I chose to take my photos in colour but later edited them in black and white. I did this
because I thought it would add more mystery to the images. I got inspiration from Teri
Varhol and ended up liking how they looked so I kept it throughout my project.
5. How did you use light to enhance your images? What sort of lighting did you use? (studio
lighting/ household lighting/ lamps/torches/camera lighting ect.) What was the advantage of
using this type of lighting?
For my project I used a flash on my camera. I also edited the brightness and exposure
sometimes if I thought the photos were too dark. Having this lighting on my photos increased
the mystery and the unknown to my photos. It kept the front bright but the back dark and
mysterious.

6. What sort of digital/ hand rendered experiments did you carry out in this project?
(Photoshop layering/ colour enchantment/ re-photographing your images/ scratching/ adding
text/ burning/ bleaching ect.) How did this help to develop your ideas? How did you learn
from them and how did they affect your final prints?
During the whole course of my project, I have used photoshop the whole time for any small
details in my project. This could be from things like simply editing the colour and the
brightness and then later on eventually deleting things from my images that I didn’t want. I
have also done re-shoots for this project. I decided that I wanted to take the pictures of a day
and night so instead went back at a different time. This helped me develop more ideas as you
see things completely different of a night time and you discover more things the more often
you go somewhere. I learnt from them by just going with it and sticking to my theme and
ideas. It affected my final prints as photoshoots that I redone came out better and some of
those images I am using.

7. Did you encounter any problems in your project?

One problem that came up a few times in my project was the time of day I was going to take
my photos. I had decided to base my project on the night time but beforehand I was going
during the day and I wasn’t having the same effect on my photos.

8. Are you happy with your final piece? Are there any elements you like in particular?
I am very happy with my final piece and really like how it has turned out. I like how overtime
my project has grown and you can see that in my images too. I have loved discovering more
about my camera and different ways I can use it in certain types of light conditions.

9. What would you do differently given the chance to complete the project again?
If I could do my project again and had the chance to complete it, I would try and stage some
photos. I liked Gregory Crewdson’s work and would have liked to learn more about it.