I feel as though I have reached some of the goals from my first PDP, this however doesn't mean I'm going to stop working at them. One of the things I feel as though I've accomplished greatly is my confidence when standing and talking in front of a group. I've attended presentation sessions and have worked at getting my voice heard when surrounded by a lot of people, I've contributed to group sessions, gave my opinion and answers questions. I feel much more confident than what I did a few months ago. I will continue to build this confidence and hopefully there will be a time when I don't feel nervous about approaching a crowd, I feel excited instead.
I set out to have a wider Photoshop skill range by June 2014, this is something that I haven't worked on as much as I could have due to other commitments to do with university, I am however going to knuckle down with some Photoshop tutorials and ask people who I know have knowledge on the subject, for help because not only do I need to know these skills for later in life, I need to know them for my Final Major Project work before the deadline on the 9th of May. I haven't given up on this goal, I've just slowed down the process to achievement, I have been watching online tutorials every now and again to learn new techniques and I've been asking a friend of mine how to do certain things on the software which I have found to be a massive help when working on my FMP. I will continue to watch online tutorials and ask peers for help until I've built a confident enough list in my head of how to do a range of interesting things on Photoshop that I never knew how to do before.
One of my big goals was to become confident when working with lighting, set up and other equipment in the studio because how it stood, I was confident with nothing. I've not yet been into the studio to try out new things but I have been reading up on how to do certain things with different lights and reflectors and I've been in the studio twice to watch other people shooting. I am going to get a group together in uni and set up a date when we can all go in the studio to experiment with everything the uni can offer, hopefully this will become a regular thing once I've left university and I'll keep gaining studio knowledge. I've been slow to pick up on this because working in the studio doesn't interest me, I prefer to work elsewhere such as outdoors or upon location. I enjoy natural light as opposed to artificial for the pure fact that it's easier to work with and it usually fits better with what I'm photographing as my shoots often involve strangers or things on location, capturing them in their natural environment. Even though I don't enjoy working in the studio I would like to be in the know when it comes to it because I don't know what the future holds for me in terms of photography so I might need these skills later on and since university has the resources for me to learn them then I will take advantage of that and meet this goal.
I have looked at the general income for various photography jobs in the UK so I am now confident that I'd be able to charge amounts that are fair and understandable if I were to complete a job for someone or be asked how much I charge for a specific job. I was told by a tutor that it can be much easier and better paid to do photography jobs in different countries than the UK because here the industry is massive and hard to get in to. I've updated the goal to learn about the incomes of photography jobs to learning the incomes for photography jobs in different countries and finding out where the jobs is popular and not so popular so I know the potentially best place to start a career in photography would be.
Throughout the last PDP module and this current one I've been looking at and researching different artists and photographers and have definitely gained a wider knowledge on who's out there. To develop my goal I want to always know when the current photographers are, I want to know what's big at that time, what's trendy and 'in', to do this I will become part of social network sites and read articles weekly to find out what is new. As well as this I'm going to look at the work of relating practitioners such as graphic designers and fashion designers, scientists and musicians because these are where most of my influences come from when doing my photography work. Whilst researching all of those things I will continue to learn the names and work of photographers old and new and popular and almost unknown.
I'm happy with my current designs and layouts of the two CV's that I've currently designed but I recently saw a friend post his creative CV on Facebook and it gave me some ideas on how to improve my own so I will look back at them and edit what I think will make them better.
Before my end of year show, displaying the final outcome for my Negotiated Major Project, I intend on having a brand and identity for me and my photography work, this identity will fuel the design of my business cards, website design, twitter design and potentially a Facebook 'like' page for my work to be displayed on. I will collaborate with the graphic design students to produce my desired outcome and with their help my identity will be brought to life!
I've added 3 new goals to my PDP, one is to be more confident with my work, one is to get a part time job in any field and the other is to set up my own personal blog.
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