This is my final post for this blog, I submitted assignment 5 to my tutor some time ago (1st October) and prior to that completed all of the exercises and my web site - I just never got around to completing my blog.
Referring back to my aims for this module, I would say I have had mixed results:
1. I still lurk around the OCA forums but have only contributed on a few occasions.
2. I loaded TAOP assignment 1, plus feedback, onto the website but found the format cumbersome. I have created a Flickr account this year and joined the OCA group, so I will investigate uploading my assignment work there.
3. Blogging - I don't think I'm a natural blogger. I find writing my thoughts on the web a very premeditated thing to do, because for them to make any sense they need to be clear, concise and orderly. My thoughts don't usually happen like that; they tend to be confused scraps of thoughts that may or may not coalesce into something tangible. I have a scruffy pocket book (the A5 Black 'n' Red from the OCA) that I use to think in - this book contains lists, ideas for images and rough layout drawings; correction for images and much more. But none of it very ordered. I wonder whether it would be appropriate to scan pages from my book and load them into my blog?
I have started P&P and intend to continue blogging, because I think being able to relax into a blog would be a good thing.
4. I have been much more structured this year and, with the exception of 1 month out, have maintained a reasonable pace throughout the course.
My intention is to submit my DDP work for assessment in March 2012.
When I set up my P&P blog I will return and add a link here.
Thank you for your time.
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Exercise 25 - a web gallery
When I first received my file for DPP I read it through, cover-to-cover, before starting any exercises. This last exercise created a degree of panic and I was straight down to the local library scouring all the 'build your own website' books. Armed and dangerous, well... not really armed - but very dangerous, I found Go Daddy and purchased a domain for my website - "pepperdog19". Now satisfied that everything was going to be OK, I settled into the new course.
Some time later, I glanced at my web page only to find that Go Daddy were using to advertise dog products - did you ever???? This had to stop, I needed to load some images onto my photography website. All I needed was the load button...
After another visit to the library and some quality book time reviled that this was nothing like Flickr! A big thank you goes out to my fellow OCA students and the links to their blogs. I very quickly found Weebly and calmed down, only to be irritated when I found out that I didn't need a domain. But having bought it, I was going to use it. Flipping back-and-forth between Go Daddy and Weebly I linked my domain to my web site, thankfully quite a simple process.
In my Weebly account I selected a standard format for my web layout, I found that I didn't quite like the layout and started to tweak the HTML code to change colours and relocate tabs - it was great fun. The directions on the Weebly site couldn't be easier and it took all of half an hour to set everything up. Unfortunately, it then took hours and hours while I faffed about and made totally unnecessary adjustments to my site. A great learning experience nonetheless.
The name of my site is Pdog19 Photography and it now holds my images and does not advertise dog shampoo.
Some time later, I glanced at my web page only to find that Go Daddy were using to advertise dog products - did you ever???? This had to stop, I needed to load some images onto my photography website. All I needed was the load button...
After another visit to the library and some quality book time reviled that this was nothing like Flickr! A big thank you goes out to my fellow OCA students and the links to their blogs. I very quickly found Weebly and calmed down, only to be irritated when I found out that I didn't need a domain. But having bought it, I was going to use it. Flipping back-and-forth between Go Daddy and Weebly I linked my domain to my web site, thankfully quite a simple process.
In my Weebly account I selected a standard format for my web layout, I found that I didn't quite like the layout and started to tweak the HTML code to change colours and relocate tabs - it was great fun. The directions on the Weebly site couldn't be easier and it took all of half an hour to set everything up. Unfortunately, it then took hours and hours while I faffed about and made totally unnecessary adjustments to my site. A great learning experience nonetheless.
The name of my site is Pdog19 Photography and it now holds my images and does not advertise dog shampoo.
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Exercise 24 - sharpening for print
Leaning Gate is an image I selected for inclusion in assignment 5. Below are a number of sharpening iterations.
The acceptable or appropriate degree of sharpening applied to any image is very subjective. Feedback from my tutor would indicate that a number of my images could do with a touch more sharpening. I would certainly agree that sharpening, as well as defining edges, also adds life to a flat image.
Clearly the last version is very, very badly sharpened and hopefully nobody would actually sharpen their images this much. However, it does remind me of some of the HDR images that populate the web nowadays... So, beauty and art is definately in the eye of the beholder.
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| Image as taken |
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| Image as submitted |
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| Image corrected as per feedback from my tutor |
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| Image over sharpened |
Clearly the last version is very, very badly sharpened and hopefully nobody would actually sharpen their images this much. However, it does remind me of some of the HDR images that populate the web nowadays... So, beauty and art is definately in the eye of the beholder.
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