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  • Bins Project

    Bin Shoot Shoot one for the bins project. The work was shot in Manchester City centre and produced a wide range of different styles that I am getting feedback on. I found that shooting the individual bins for the start of this project was interesting due to the way that people look at your interaction

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  • Shoot Planning

    Bins Bins is a series in which I have started looking at mundane everyday objects that people interact with. This is how I came to look at bins as a project. The shoots consist of bins across central Manchester, with the central focus of the image being the bin itself. The inspiration for this work

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  • The personal development and understanding of WordPress. Template When using a template inside WordPress, I discovered that there is a lot of random text inside all pages. There are also a lot of parts where text is duplicated due to the way that the default sets up the site page. When going into the depths

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  • Lightroom

    Using Lightroom Classic When using Lightroom, I created a new collection to keep all the different shoots separate from one another. This helps with the overall organisation of the work. I then created a target collection to send the best images to. This allows me to give a rough edit to the best images and

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  • Oliviero Toscani

    Toscani is an Italian photographer who is behind the success of brands such as Esprit, Chanel, Fiorucci, and Benetton. Toscani began his advertising for Benetton in 1984. United Colours of Benetton.  Benettons most controversial campaigns (British VOGUE) look into the work that was made over different periods of time. One of the first controversial campaigns

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  • Flowers

    This shoot was directed by Jane Andrews, creative arts lead for the Trafford College group. This shoot was given to us on very short notice; however, me and Jordan (another L6 photography student) took the challenge and decided to shoot it. We were given instructions to shoot a mixture of portraits and close-up shots. However,

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  • Finn Beales

    72 hrs in … 72 Hours is a series of mini projects that Beales produces when travelling to locations for just 72 hours. The work is extremely interesting as it shows a selection of different shooting styles, from landscapes to portraits. The work shows Beales taking himself into areas of different cultures and documenting his

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  • Ed Ruscha

    Parking Lots Parking Lots is a project and book focusing on the imagery, typography, and mapping of car parks in the US. I like this work as it reflects well on the project that I want to do with Bins. I am working on a typographical style book to be able to show the subject

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  • Website algorithms

    When looking at the building of our website, I first looked into the ways that the algorithm looks for the most desirable website to show. This can be attributed to several different factors. Domain name: this can be a negligible difference, but it can help when people are searching directly, as the site will look

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  • Light Room Classic

    For a start, it would have helped if I had downloaded the right one! The version that I had downloaded was just Lightroom; however, I should have downloaded Lightroom Classic. This had complications because the parts that I needed to use didn’t exist in this version. However, it did allow me to learn more about

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