Skills Development Portfolio Name: Charlie Atkins

Photographic Equipment Can you find five images of photography equipment and name what it is? Can you also tell us, how would you use them? LO-1 -1.1 1. Camera - Nikon Coolpix p900 – To take the photo. 2. Tripod – Magnus PV-3310 – To get in position. 3. Lenses – Nikon AF-S DX 18-300mm – To zoom in. 4. Memory card - SanDisk 16 GB 5 – To the save photos. 5. Gimbal Stabiliser – DJI Ronin-M – Better Grip

What are digital materials What are digital materials? What software might we use when we are working with digital photography and what would you use it for? Can you find three examples of software that can help use with this? LO 1 – 1.2 The world’s best imaging and design app is at the core of almost every creative project. Work across desktop and mobile devices to create and enhance your photographs, web and mobile app designs, 3D artwork, videos, and more. Paint Shop Pro (PSP) is a raster and vector graphics editor for Microsoft Windows. It was originally published by Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel purchased Jasc Software and the distribution rights to Paint Shop Pro. PSP functionality can be extended by Photoshop-compatible plugins. Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately. Affinity Photo is a proprietary raster graphics editor by Serif for macOS, iOS and Windows. It has been described as a Photoshop alternative. Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. It was announced in May 2015 and spun out from Google+, the company's social network.

Materials USB Stick Reader Disc Paper

Name : Charlie Atkins Age : 16 I'm Charlie, born on 2001 29th August. I have a passion for music, mainly hip-hop, that’s why I take photos with rappers I like. I also take photos of the 4 elements of hip-hop such as MC’ing, DJ’ing, graffiti and B- Boying. Hope you enjoy my exhibition

List of photographs 3.1 Photo Shot type Action shot MC’ing Midshot

Top 10 The final photos LO 3 – 3.3

Shot types

2.1 mood board Mood board review

Connection We would like you to find inspiration so you can begin to develop ideas for a collection of photos based on connection. Consider using portrait, urban/abstract or landscape photography. We would like you to build an inspiration board to show the different sources you have used. Also to include your review on photographers from the week 10th September. Remember, inspiration is not just from the internet. LO 2 – 2.1 This was my original work, but there is not much street art in my environment, I have chosen to do hiphop

Mc’ing the lyrics the mc has wrote Hiphop fashion Pictures of freestyling with beat boxing Hiphop culture Graffti Hiphop cds and dvds and vinyl Poverty/ repping B boying ( break dancing) Lyrics on paper LO 2 – 2.1 Ideas

1. All of the pictures was on the street 2. There all graffiti LO 2 – 2.1 Ideas 1. All of the pictures was on the street 2. There all graffiti 3. There all creative by using their environment to make something creative

Final idea LO 3 3.1 What is your final idea? -street art Why have you chosen this? - its creative and a challenge to make creativity of your environment What do you need to do to achieve this? - good locations to choose from How are you going to create each photo? - search around For each photo, we would like you to create a sketch for each. This will help you see your photo. A sketch does not need to be hand drawn, you might find an image on the internet that shows what you want to achieve.

MY CONNECTION – HIPHOP The final photos LO 3 – 3.3

Top 10

Review LO 4 – 4.1 You need to collect four reviews of you photos 1 – 2 – Your tutor Leasa; I am very impressed with the photos you have taken. They show a definite style that works well with the subject of hip hop. Well done 3 – Someone you know josh; the best one is Rafael B-boying and the worst one is the graffiti because its from the college and not good angle 4 – Someone in your class you might not so well Amy; the best one is the MC’ing because the black and white filter makes it look better, the worst one is the graffiti because I don’t know what its representing and the angle could be better

Evaluation LO 4 – 4.2 took pictures of hip hop culture What did you do? took pictures of hip hop culture What went well for you and why do you think it did? the ideas and photos came out good, because I wasn’t expecting the quality and lighting to be as good as it was What did not work as well and why do you think this? not having photos of DJ’ing, because its one of the most important elements of the culture, and I forgot to take some of a producer I know What would you improve on and why? take pictures of dj’ing, because I =t was needed importantly What did you enjoy the most and why? my stepdad helping me out, it was fun for someone to help What did you enjoy the least and why? not getting photos of dj’ing, because it felt like the one thing missing What have your learnt? that my phone could take better photos than I thought What is your favorite photo and why? the fashion photos, because they looked cool with the tops and hats