Work Record 9

In this work record, I wanted to produce a time lapse video. I will do this on my Go-Pro Hero 8 as my Canon Camera does not have a video setting. To edit and refine the footage, I have Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018, and to upload the video, I have uploaded it into youtube and attached the link below. My footage was taken during my day trip to Holkam and captures a winter sunset.

To capture the timelapse, the Go-Pro was set to a frame rate of 29.97 FPS. It was placed on a tripod and left for around two hours. In this time, it captured many birds, fishermen and their boats, dog walkers and a Seal, as well as the changing of colours produced from the setting of the sun. The footage was shot in RAW format to enable me to have greater control over the editing process.

In order to edit this footage, the RAW files were placed into Adobe Premiere Pro, a timeline based editing software that allows files such as timelapse to be edited in a similar way to how a photo would be edited and processed within Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop.

pictured above, is a frame of what the original footage looked like before editing, the original RAW format.
Pictured above, is the customisable layout of Premiere Pro. On the top left, you can view and alter the different layers, masks and filters that are being placed into the footage. Below that is the footage selection box where different files can be added to the editing process. To the right of the selection box, is the timelines. this is where each layer can be viewed, audio files can be added over the top of the visual footage and new files can be blended in. in the top right is where the footage can be viewed as it is being edited. Each box can be made bigger or smaller depending on what is needed at that particular time.
The above image shows the first few alterations of the video footage that I gathered. It shows the different layers that I created in order to create the best edit. This program allowed me to make different alterations, then hide that layer, to see the difference or to take the layer off if I didn’t like what i have changed, without deleting it completely.
I altered the curves to emphasise the colours that were produced within the sunset.
Here, it is shown how I created a vignette on my footage. this draws the eyes into the middle of the screen instead of everything that is around the edges.

Final project evaluation

During this project, I have conducted multiple shoots, all of which I feel have been completed successfully. I think that the shoot that went particularly well where shoots 1, 6 and 7. These are the shoots that I feel the most happy with due to the final outcomes being the ones that i am most happy with.

To select images for my final portfolio, I first scrutinised the images that I was most impressed with, the ones that had good composition and has sharp focus. I then chose the images that caught my eye the most, whether it was because of the subject that I was focusing on or whether I was the colours within the image itself. Finally, I began to scrutinise each image. I found myself finding imperfections within the work and either removing them completely or altering them slightly using Photoshop. I also took out the images that stopped the flow of the portfolio, the images that were good, but looked out of place, this allowed my portfolio to become stronger.

I do feel that i have produced a cohesive body of work, with some experimentation, such as with the editing processes and with the time lapse video. I think that I definitely have stronger shoots and weaker shoots, however, I feel that the weaker shoots allowed me to find my own style and preferences within the world of photography and I think that my style of photography has been shown the be growing and becoming more evident as the project has built up. I think that the changing of seasons has definitely been shown through each shoot however, if I were to have more time to continue with this project, I think that I would choose to continue to explore my own personal style of wildlife photography. I would also like to spend more time in the studio to capture some better quality work influenced by Edward Weston.

I have been influenced by my research in many different ways. Some photographers, have shown me different styles of photography, different angles that add different dimensions to the images. Whilst others, they have given me ideas on what to try and capture within my images, such as Neil McIntyre, who influenced me to find the deer and photograph them. Within my work, I have been working on the decided

As part of this personal investigation, I have learnt that studio work is definitely one of my weaker areas, and something that i hope to improve upon in the future. I think that I need to be a little more careful when it comes to editing as I have sometimes reviewed some pieces of work and have majorly disliked the work that I had produced. I also feel that I need to be less critical of my own images. I sometimes get caught up in what the research influences are doing instead of looking and appreciating my own style and embracing it.

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