As my magazine that I was taking pictures for was Essex Life . It was essential to make sure that the photo’s were taken in Essex, and even more important that I knew my audience and knew my pictures would appeal to the the customers. My most obvious target audience for the magazine is older people, generally ranging from 30-60+, as when I researched the demographic for Essex Life this proved to be the highest segment of people who read Essex Life. I don’t feel like either sex will like my photo’s more or less than the other as my pictures are rather universal and appeal to everyone. It’s very obvious that the younger generation wouldn’t find my photos captivating or enjoyable where as my target audience will.. I think the younger audience would find the magazine tedious, however I purposely tried to make my photo’s appeal to the widest range of people as possible. The magazines main focus is the life of Essex, so I feel my pictures of Epping Forest, a huge focal point in Essex is both suited and deserving to be there. Personally I feel that that people will like these photos regardless of their culturual backgrounds, religions and political viewpoints, I just think that anyone and everyone can get something from these pictures.
I think that although my technical and creative abilities are not the best and they’re not area’s that I thrive in I did well. I took the pictures exactly how I wanted to take them and I wasn’t hindered by my lack of photography skills, Technical ability isn’t all that important as we were given demonstrations on how to use camera’s and I retained this information and used it when I needed it. I didn’t go very deep in technicality, I did adjust shutter speeds, lighting or use any other professional techniques throughout my work, I would of liked to perhaps do some bokeh or mosaic photographs but I couldn’t. My time management was far from perfect, my original idea was to take the pictures at either sunrise or sunset but I was unable to get a camera I could use at these times and it would of taken a lot more planning to make it work and I don’t feel personally that I am good enough to execute a task like this with great precision.
I personally feel that I worked to the best of my ability in each task I have carried out. I also feel although I did not have the best time management my work did not suffer because of this. When producing every photo I did, I made sure I considered outside aspects such as the lighting in which I was taking the photograph, as well as the setting in which I used, and whether or not I was able to apply the rule of thirds correctly. I remembered to think of this as I knew by doing it, it would have a positive effect on my final image. Although I don’t particularly enjoy photography I remained optimistic about each task I did had, and tried to approach them all head on. I brainstormed and planned ahead so that I didn’t get confused or waste time and this make things run a lot smoother and faster in the long run. I do feel that my ideas were well thought out, although I was unable to follow through with my first idea of paying homage to Jonathan Knowles I feel my latter ideas worked equally as well and overall it was a success. I thought long and hard about making my pictures stand out from everybody else’s. I know some people perceive wildlife, forests and nature as boring but I knew my readership would be able to appreciate it.When taking the photo’s I always tried to imagine I was a professional photographer and I was getting paid and these images were going to published, so they had to be the best that they could be.In retrospect I probably could of worked harder on using better angles and changing the settings on my camera to get better images. When uploading each photo i had taken I always played around with photo shop. I am by no means the best as using photo shop however everything I planned on doing with the application I was able to do with some considerable ease which made the whole manipulation process much easier.
