Week 10 : ECA Panel

The task for week 10 was to put together a panel of 10 images for the ECA, and complete the written part of the ECA. I spent lots of time with friends on the T189 Flickr Group looking at images, and asking them to critique my images – I gained huge amounts of help from them, which helped me to look at my images more objectively.

My starting point for putting together the panel of images was to read, and re-read, the information about the ECA and how it would be assessed. It seemed to me, that the key information was:

This ECA has been designed to allow you to demonstrate that you have acquired skills and knowledge taught in T189.

the instructions also listed a number of aspects on which we would be assessed -

(i) Seeing (visual awareness) (30 marks)

Here the assessors will assess the panel of ten images as a whole, using the following criteria:

• Composition and cropping – Do the images demonstrate skills and knowledge of composition (using form, pattern, texture, colour, lighting, cropping, cloning)?
• Visual creativity – Do the images show some imagination and creativity with good use of light and colour in sympathy with the subject?
• View point – Have suitable or interesting view points been chosen?
• Decisive moment – If the images include live action or photojournalism-type grab shots, do the images reveal skilled choice of shutter release moment?
• Variety in use of camera/image editing – Do the images communicate different moods, ideas, narratives (for example different lighting conditions or digital darkroom techniques)? Repetition of similar images should be avoided.
• Overall impact – Is the editing, selection and sequencing of the material well considered to display the material to its best advantage? Repetition should be avoided. Do the images/panel communicate with impact?

(ii) Technical quality (30 marks)

Here the assessors will assess the panel of ten images as a whole, using the following criteria:

• Exposure – Is the exposure appropriate (are highlights burnt out or do shadows lack detail?)
• Colour and tone – Do images display appropriate control of colours or colour casts?
• Focus and sharpness – Is the main subject sufficiently or correctly in focus? If there is movement in the frame is this handled correctly for the intent? Does the image suffer from camera shake?
• Depth of field – Is the control of depth of field appropriate for the subject or intention?
• Digital artefacts - Is there evidence of over-sharpening or poor cloning or any other digital artefact?

Technical creativity – Is there creativity in the use of basic photographic techniques taught in the course, and has this been handled well?

I decided to find 10 images that fitted as many of the above criteria as possible, and also demonstrate a range of photographic styles and techniques.

These were the 10 images I selected: Kajo’s Flickr Panel

~ by KaJo on April 6, 2008.