Sam's Photo Essay of ifield Community

Monday 8 March 2010

Two of my Favourite Images

Two if my favourite images would be one of Ifield Community, where I took photos of Ifield and it’s historical heritage, the other of Photoshop, where I did many styles and alterations to a photo by using water paper, pallet knives, mosaics and many more.

The reason why I chose Ifield Community is because Ifield is the oldest village in Crawley and I know the village better than anyone else, I’ve been around the village many times and know it from the back of my hand, taking pictures of historical heritage and modern convince together gives Ifield a wonderful added dimensional background unlike any other.

The reason why I chose Photoshop is because using all sorts of artistic styles and alterations to a photo of me and Jay gives it a new dimension where art and photo form together to create new stylised looks, it’s about altering your photo, giving it a style that you like to have and making it more interesting so it would stand out.


Two of my Favourite Images:

Two if my favourite images would be one of Ifield Community, where I took photos of Ifield and it’s historical heritage, the other of Photoshop, where I did many styles and alterations to a photo by using water paper, pallet knives, mosaics and many more.

The reason why I chose Ifield Community is because Ifield is the oldest village in Crawley and I know the village better than anyone else, I’ve been around the village many times and know it from the back of my hand, taking pictures of historical heritage and modern convince together gives Ifield a wonderful added dimensional background unlike any other.

The reason why I chose Photoshop is because using all sorts of artistic styles and alterations to a photo of me and Jay gives it a new dimension where art and photo form together to create new stylised looks, it’s about altering your photo, giving it a style that you like to have and making it more interesting so it would stand out.

Friday 15 January 2010

my idea

  • What is your topic?
  • What I'm going to do for my topic would be of Ifield's community
  • What is your purpose (What do you hope to say)?
  • Im hoping to say would be how old Ifield is, what buildings there are, when they were built, where they are built, why they are still here and who lives there.
  • Who is your audience? Who would you like to view your essay?
  • People who might live in Ifield.
  • What pictures do you plan on taking? Write them down before sketching them into a storyboard.
  • The pictures I'm planning on taking would be...
  • 1. Ifield barn Theatre.
  • 2. Ifield Church.
  • 3. Deerwood House.
  • 4. Manor Green College.
  • 5. The Plough Inn.
  • 6. Ifield Parade.
And Ifield Watermill if possible.

Monday 11 January 2010

National Geographic: China


The difference of these two photos is that the first picture is of a thousand chinese people walking in one direction and the second picture is of the Great Wall of China having a snowstorm during the winter night.
They are similar because the Great Wall of China is a symbol to the chinese people and the chinese people's ancestors built the great wall long ago.
The different books are formatted into pictures first and then journals later, or it could be all journal and no pictures or all pictures and no journal, either way it's all the same, they are all articles on the same subject that the National Geographics show us.

The author would choose the pictures first because if he or she writes out the journal first without knowing the subject by visual, then he or she would've got the wrong facts and the book would be useless without visual facts first.

A book illustrated by photos instead of drawings is accurate, photos provide accurate details while drawings provide fiction, unless you're an artist, otherwise it would be a different story altogether.



The list of my three photo essays would be of the following:
1. Beautiful
2. Insparational
3. Accuracy

Friday 27 November 2009

My Self Portrait

This is my ides for my self portrait

Thursday 26 November 2009

Last Week Exhibition


What I did was dress up according to the chosen subjects for four days of the week, we left out Monday because we weren't in on that day, Tuesday was Neon Day, I chose to wear an Indian Jumper, I really stood out like a sore thumb on that day.

Wednesday was Mad Hat Day so I wore a mad top hat, I lookedlike the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.

Thursday was Random Day, it means that you get to dress in anything you want, I chose my old Deerswood school uniform, it felt like taking a trip down memory lane.

Friday was Superheroes and Villians Day, I really had a field day when I chose to dress as the fourth Doctor Who, Tome Baker, Doctor Who was a big supporter of Children in Need so it was a big deal for me.


I took no photos, I've just been posing all the time in my chosen costumes.


The studio setup was near the window of the fourth floor of the Tower Block for Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, we covered the windows with pieces of paper with huge letters saying, Neon Tuesday, Mad Hat Wednesday and Random Thursday, but on Friday the studio setup was in the foyer of the Tower Block, it was very gloomy outside and slightly dark so it was the best background to take photos inside.

Friday 13 November 2009

Studio Lighting


Shadow Light: how to get rid of shadows.

Deflecting: Deflecting the light with a deflector to the model if dark, they use a redhead spotlight.
A Deflector is a white circle that expells the shadows from your face, but it can be a white piece of paper if you want.
Daylight Filter can be created by the studio lighting with a blue plastic card covering it up, this is called the In Fill Light.

The source of light is where the light is coming from, like for example, if you want natural light then you want it from the sun, but if you want artificial light, then studio lighting is the answer.