Analysis of final piece

Context

Both of these photographs were taken when the subjects had either just received their prize/gift. They were taken in the hall at Hautlieu School during the senior Christmas party. This was the end of the party and everyone had had a good time.

Conceptual

My aim with this edit, was not to be the most technical and aesthetically pleasing, but was to capture the overall mood of the event, and I think that I was successful in doing this. I feel that this edit shows that the general happiness of this afternoon was beautiful in it’s own way, and very rewarding and worthwhile.

Visual

This image does contain some little hints of colour, i.e, the red on the subjects top and also the blue gift in the masked layer, however, overall is not too colourful and eye-catching, if I were to re-edit I think that I would enhance the colour by adjusting the highlights, shadows and maybe the vibrancy of both layers to make it all stand out more. However, I like that this photo was taken against a white wall, consequently the subject gets all of the viewers attention and focus.

Technical

This photo was not taken the most technically. The lighting was all artificial, this photograph was taken in the hall with overhead bright main lighting and no flash. Ultimately this was because this was not a planned photo shoot, but capturing events as they happened. I had my camera on the ‘manual focus’ setting so that I could decide who and what I was focusing on and I think this did help as I was able to have more control, as I was not in control of the environmental factors.