Skills Development Portfolio Name: Tommy-Tyler Harris

Introduction Hello my name is Tommy-Tyler Harris I’m 16 years of age born on June 6th 2001. As a photographer, I want my pictures telling a story. I took pictures of what I love doing, and that is gaming and street fashion photographer. Me being a photographer I want my images to stand out and catch the viewer’s eyes. The techniques I use in my photographer is the rule of thirds and leading lines. The connection I want is happiness and joy from my photos, and connection for me is a strong bond towards something or someone, this Is how I want to connect with my viewers. I’m doing my photography on gaming because I want to show my viewers how to connect with It and how you can enjoy life living around the gaming industry.

Photographic Equipment LO-1 -1.1 Can you find five images of photography equipment and name what it is? Can you also tell us, how would you use them? Tripod - You will use the tripod to steady your images so your photo is not turned to one side and blurry. Camera- you can capture various different pictures, videos and angels. Lighting – you use the lighting because your images won’t come out dark Memory Card- You would use a memory card to keep track of all your photos and videos. Monitor – you can check all your photos because you can save them all to the monitor and you can edit your images.

What are digital materials? LO 1 – 1.2 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? Photoshop-Photographers would use Photoshop to edit photos by using filters, brightness to make a perfect image. Canon’s Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is a free, and surprisingly powerful, image organising and editing application that ships in the box with every EOS camera. You’ll find DPP on the EOS Digital Solution Disk alongside other very useful Canon developed software. Create anything you can imagine. Anywhere you are. 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.

What are digital materials? LO 1 – 1.2 - USB Stick Reader Disk Paper

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. Connection l02 -2.1

Intro. Pictures. What I like and don’t like . Intro . Pictures . What I like and don’t like . Find a photographer who is similar and compare Chema Madoz – Abstract  Chema Madoz, is a Spanish photographer, best known for his black and white surrealist photographs. I Like Chema Madoz images because I like his creativity and his designs, it makes me think if its real or not, he has a very clever mind and really good skills to deceive people’s eye. He gets two objects what are completely different and blends it in to make the perfect illusion. The thing I don’t like about Chema Madoz work is that he uses a lot of Photoshop, all his pictures are things that things aren’t what they appear to be. Chema Madoz is a similar abstact photographer to Alvin Langdon Coburn because both of their designs are so creative and both of there work is illusional, they both use a lot of photoshop to make their images what aren’t things what they appear to be.

To add plan/list of photos LO2 3.1 Shot Type Xbox Controller Xbox, PlayStation Games ( Old and New games) Taking a portrait picture of a person looking concentrated while playing games. Close Up Medium Shot Over the shoulder shot Cut-In Longshots Low Angle Shots High Angle Shots

Connection LO 2 – 2.1

Inspiration Mood board review l02 -2.1 I chose these pictures because I’m really into gaming because I’ve been playing games for years and it’s one of my passions, when I take my gaming images I want to draw people in.

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Final idea LO 3 3.1 Why have you chosen this? Why idea is gaming and I’m going to take various different photos what is gaming related. Why have you chosen this? I have chosen gaming because I can get a reaction of what the picture I’m taking of What do you need to do to achieve this? I can achieve by having a camera, all the gaming objects and my mates. How are you going to create each photo? The location is going to be in a room, going to take a close up picture of my mate concentrating on the game, I’m going to take various of different styles in the arcade. 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.

The final photos LO 3 – 3.3

Review LO 4 – 4.1 You need to collect four reviews of you photos 1 – Family member 2 – Your tutor 3 – Someone you know 4 – Someone in your class you might not so well

1.Hello my name is Tommy-Tyler Harris, as a photographer, I took pictures of what I love doing, and that is gaming. Me being a photographer I want my images to stand out and catch the viewer’s eyes. The connection I want is happiness and joy from my photos, and connection for me is a strong bond towards something or someone, this Is how I want to connect with my viewers. I’m doing my photography on gaming because I want to show my viewers how to connect with It and how you can enjoy life living around the gaming industry. 2. I have various of different shot types, such as close up, medium shot, over the shoulder shot and more. The style of my photos are portrait, the meaning I’m trying to convey is to show gaming in a positive way and my images show why a lot of people enjoy gaming. 3. Evaluation - Jude – one of the main things Jude likes is the creativity of making a circle using the games and then adding the console in the middle, it makes him want to see more. One improvement could that is to add more brightness within the photo and better quality camera. Evaluation – David – He likes the games patterns in one of my photos, he likes the various different of backgrounds and they’re all unique and different settings. He said the improvement I could make is get more pattern photos and get more of my pictures to link.

What did not work as well and why do you think this? What did you do? I done my photographer on Gaming, mostly took pictures of showing what games I use to play and what I now play. What went well for you and why do you think it did? The shot types I done went well, I used various different shot types, and i took pictures from different angels. I think it went well because my pictures looked the exactly the same from different angels. In one of the photos I used rule of thirds, I took a picture of my mate holding a controller what was the main object but it was not just focusing on that, it was focusing on it surroundings. What did not work as well and why do you think this? What would you improve on and why? I would improve the lighting in my photos because maybe the viewers would not get the real understanding of the image I am taking of. What did you enjoy the most and why? I really enjoyed taking photos what I’m really into, it was really enjoyable going out being a photographer and taking pictures of gaming. What did you enjoy the least and why? The thing I didn’t enjoy is that I had to Sort and organize everything. The other thing I least enjoyed was waiting hours to get a perfect photo of my photography But that’s what it is all about being a photographer. What have you learnt? I have learnt that being a photographer it’s not one take of a picture and done, you have to take your time in the picture you are taking to get the best quality image that would catch the viewers eye. What is your favorite photo and why? This is my favorite photo because it is creative with the patterns in a circle around the console. This shows all the old games and consoles, the photos indicate how long I have been into gaming. Evaluation LO 4 – 4.2