Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In the construction of my music magazine I used various technologies; this has made me skilled in a lot of areas in the Photoshop and other software’s.

In the process of taking pictures for my magazine was the cannon 550D, I became quite knowledgeable in ensuring that the ISO on my camera was correct and that each photo was in focus. I took pictures in only two different locations simply because I knew what I was going for in terms of the ideas I wanted to use my models in beforehand. Both locations was similar I took the pictures in a dark room with a plain back drop this was so it made it easier for editing in Photoshop.

Factors taken into consideration was that because the pictures were taken in a dark room I had to use a significant amount of lighting to ensure that my models were seen clearly in each photo, as the incorrect lighting would result in multiple bad photos rendering them unusable for my magazine. But also the photos couldn’t be too bright in the same sense as if they were too dark with insufficient lighting, so I had to think about whether I would be using the flash on the camera.

When uploading the photos taken to a computer I used a memory card reader to do this, which made it much faster and very easy to transfer all the photos to the computer. Once uploaded I went through all the photos to see which were the best ones and would be used in my magazine after editing. Having gone through the selection process I went into Photoshop for editing my photos into my magazine.