My Evaluation

This is my evaluation and I will be looking at what went well, what didn't go well and what I would change if I was to do this project again. I will also include my final prints of the seven deadly sins.



The parts a found that went well and I really enjoyed was coming up with the ideas for the seven different sins. I have never really used long exposures so this was a new thing for me and i really did learn a lot about, what I can achieve if a just push myself just that little bit more to get my ideas in to photographs.



The other thing I really enjoyed was thinking of different location and what i wanted in them and the back ground. in my past projects i have only really shot in the studio where i can have a lot more control of lighting and more space to play around in. this time all of my pictures were shot on location and with this it made me think on my feet more and adapt to the environment i was in. some of the location were in quite small space's so the lights from uni were too bad and bright for what I wanted so thinking of a torch was a really good idea and was very easy to move from one location to another.



The things that I found hard on this project was finding different people for the seven different sins. in a few pictures I had to use people that were in my class as my friends that I asked were not that reliable and would always let me down last minute. I did find this really frustrating and that then left me to use people more than once in some of the pictures.



I also found that from what my picture look like on my laptop don't always print out the same colour. the Pride picture was meant to be more purple but when it was printed it came out more
pinkie red then purple. For future project i will check the colour again before printing.



The one thing i would change would be my idea. I would still do the seven deadly sins but i think it would be more of a challenge if i did what the consequences would be in hell for each sin. I think that would be more interesting than just the seven deadly sin. This is because anyone can do it and some many people have, but they not ever show what the punishment would be in hell.
I think this will be an idea which i would like to develop further and hopefully be able to do it.



I did bring them up to date in the sense of some of the situations for example the lust picture. The lust picture has to men in it which when looking at other images they are just of women and men and not of the same sex but at the same time the viewer can make their own mind up on what is happening and what it means. i wanted this to carry on through out my work and i feel i have done that and that's why I wanted the text to be small.



I did really enjoy the over all project and my idea has changed a lot from what I first said. I was going to do it a bit more horror based but, looking at the cost I am glad I didn't do the horror theme. I feel I worked well and was very organised and didn't leave anything to the last minuet. I am very pleased with the out come of my work and i hope others will enjoy it as I have making it.



The final pictures.

Reshoot of greed and examples of text.

I have now shot all of my sins and this is my re shoot of greed which I did a week ago. I really like this image and on its own it looks a bit dark but with with the other images it really works well. i tried a range of places on the image to put the text and found that the only way it could work was to shrink the text and hide it in the image. I really like this effect so I deiced to do it to all of the other sins, so I can put the text in the image with out being conscious of the eye being drawn to the text but instead the very will see it a second time round when looking closer. I have put in gluttony and pride as well so you can see the examples of what I mean.

Greed shoot.

This is the latest images I have done of the seven deadly sins project. This is the sin greed in this shoot I have kept it the same with all my shoot. I have used the same camera, tripod and torch to get the same effects on every picture. I have not put these images in Photoshop yet but my final images have.I do like these pictures but they are not in focus I have arranged another shoot with my model for a later date.

Images and text so far.

These pictures are my first attempts at putting text on to images and I'm not too keen on the idea of putting it on my images but how i want them to be printed means i have to for i don't want a broader.


I did try to recreate the images i found of the film Repo! but i found that if i had shot just the people in the studio on just a white backdrop then i think it would be alot easier for me to Photoshop them than trying to do them from the images i have made.

I do like some of the images and the text but my only worry is if i put the text in the wrong place and i dont want the text to be the first thing the viewer see i want them to let their eye go around the picuter and not just focus on just the text thats why i have tried to make the text small and hide it around the picture so they almost have to find what the title of the image is called.

I am happy with my work so far and i am happy with the gluttony, sloth and lust images the envy i will improve on the wrath i am still tring to find a place on were i can put the text and i only have to shoot Pride and Greed which i will do in the next week.

Text and Images

I have been tring to think of a way in which i can get text in to the picture with out the eye being drawn to the text first and not the image. i have look at some picture and posters and then i came across a film i have called Repo! The genetic opera. In the case it has some postcards of the cast and who they played in the film. I then started to think if i could turn my sins pictures in to they same effect as the postcards. This is one of the pictures from the postcards.

More shoots.

This picture is of wrath and i think i will shoot again. it took a very long time with the lighting and the long shutter speed. The place i went to is not too far from where i live so it was easy to get to. I found it hard tring to tell the models what i wanted them to do with out them fighting for real. i like were i have set it but i will need to re shoot it and then see which one are better. Also the ones i have taken so far seem a bit too staged.

Second shoot.

This is my second shoot and i have done gluttony and lust. i really like the lust one but one of the models looks really uneasy and to be fair i can see why! this first picture was is lust, with this idea i didnt want to really use a grils as i found that alot of magazines always use a girl teasing guys or the other way round. so i wanted something different and sort of up to date so thats why i desieded to have two guys in the picture acting like a gay couple but one of them is covering it up to friends with the picture he has one his wall. The othe picture is of gluttony with this picture i want to re shoot and get it more in focus because its just a little bit out. For all of the pictures the equipment i have used is my own Nikkon D80 digital SLR, one tripod, tourch and come coloured jells. I have not put any of the picture through photoshop yet and i dont really want to. The next step if to get feedback from people and not just friends feedback so i can take it on bored to improve my pictures.