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For my magazine I decided to look over the different choices the website had for a layout and decided to choose this one mainly because this was their template for a football magazine and I believe it was the one that best suited my images that I had taken during this project. When I looked over the template I thought that it look really professional, I did seen a couple of others that looked really good, one I believe was designed as a car magazine but I decided to try and create a magazine using both templates but the other wasn't really the best for what I was trying to accomplish with my work. Though with this it was perfect for my images there may have been a couple of images that were too big for the magazine and they wouldn't let me re-size them which was pretty annoying but I managed to resolve any problems that this caused.

Evaluation

For my FMP I decided to create a programme all about Burton Albion, I originally began with several ideas such as creating a normal programme for the club and one to celebrate promotion, which at the point wasn't confirmed so I had to generate other ideas just in case the club didn't get promoted, which they did. After the club got promoted I decided to begin designing a programme celebrating the clubs promotion which came out really well. But a couple of days after completing this the league season ended and Burton Albion were confirmed as league champions so I decided to design a programme celebrating the clubs title success and to do this I decided to use the programme I got from the clubs last promotion to help me out.

During the project I managed to get two photo shoots done at the club. The first was the penultimate game of the season and the final home game, with the club already guaranteed promotion there was a party atmosphere the ground which all me to get even more brilliant photos. The second shoot I managed to do was about eight days later when the club came back to their home ground to celebrate winning the league title this was a brilliant shoot for me and really helped me to get even more photographs during this project. I would say at this point I probably already had enough for my programme, but with me doing a programme celebrating the clubs title success having images of the players celebrating the trophy and lifting it as well would have been a huge bonus for the programme and really helped the look of it as well.

Throughout most of the project I used a Canon 1DX and a 70-200m lens but during the trophy presentation I used the same lens but I used a Canon 5D Mark III as this was a last minute shoot and I wasn't able to get any equipment from college but this was probably too big of a lens to use at the players were quite close. I probably should have taken the 24-70mm lens.

Personally I would say that I didn't really run into any problems throughout the project the only problem that I had was the lack of opportunities for photo shoots due to the season almost being at an end. I managed to get to the final home game of the season and the trophy presentation.

I would say that with the photographs that I took Matt Bunn was a massive inspiration to my images as he captures some truly spectacular action shots which I did attempt throughout the project and I did get some to come off pretty well. Another would be John Potts the guy I worked with at Burton Albion his images of the matches are simply amazing his images are better than some in my research and I tried to use his style of photography in my shoots, I spoke to him to try and get as much advice as I could get from him to help me.

Overall I would say that I am really pleased with how everything came out, my final piece I was really pleased with for me it was the perfect image to use and I was really pleased with it. If I was to re-do the project I may have used a different company to publish my programme as the printing of my enlarged images wasn't very good at all it was out of focus but to people who know little or nothing about photography it was probably alright but to me it wasn't.

Exhibition Image Review

My image display at the exhibition was fine for me originally the photo was supposed to be in a frame but unfortunately the frame got scratched but it got hung up anyway and it was still perfectly fine when it was actually put up.

I would say that overall I am really pleased with how it looked but I was more pleased with the actual position of the image, it was in the perfect place for me as it was right next to the cafe so when people are drinking or eating they can easily see it.


The actual putting up of the image was quite hard as it kept being moved around but as I look at the place where it ended up, it isn't that bad. Due to the fact that it was held up with bull clips meant that it needed straightening out but after that was done it looked perfectly fine and I am truly pleased with it.

Magazine Review

When I look over my completed magazine, I spot a few minor things that I could have improved. This first is on the front cover, I feel that I could have added more onto it, the cover could probably do with a little bit more text on it, not much though. When it was actually printed the photos that were enlarged, just three came out a bit blurry which was really annoying but it is only minor so I am happy with it overall.

On the back cover I have small text along the bottom of the page, on the text all but one letter is in capital letters which is a slight annoyance but this is quite hard to see so it isn't that much of a problem. Also on the back covers I did misspell one word which I didn't notice but this is only a minor thing.

Another thing that was quite annoying was the fact that the printing quality of larger weren't the best but they weren't printed that bad but for someone like me who knows a fair bit about how the image is supposed to look like it is quite bad to look at whereas for someone who doesn't know what they are looking for it doesn't look that bad and also from a small distance it doesn't look that bad either.

I would have to say that overall I am quite please with how the magazine actually came out, there were a couple of minor things but these are truly minor so for me it doesn't matter, after reading reviews and listening to what other people have said about it I feel that it does look like quite a professional quality magazine and that was the main thing that I was looking for when creating this magazine.

KIPAX Images

This photograph shows a footballer chasing down the ball. This photograph is a strong image because it focuses very well on the player there is no blur. There is also plenty of blur in the background so that it doesn't distract from the action of the player. I really love this image mainly because it shows the player chasing down the ball and that there are no other players in the shot. This is one of those image that I really think that is brilliant this is mainly due to the fact that it does look like he is on the pitch by himself, this gives a brilliant effect to it and makes it look different to all other football images.

This image shows a player running with the ball, this is an interesting photograph due to the fact that there is no-one in the shot who is chasing the player I presume that had this been taken in landscape then you would have been able to seen some people chasing down the player. This image would have a shutter speed of around 1/750 and a aperture of around f2.8 this would give the image that sharp look that it possesses. With this there is a person in blue and another with a bit of fluorescent green in the background this to me is a bit distracting and would cause me to lose focus on the player this is the only thing that I could really criticise about this photograph other than that it is one of those photos I really enjoy.

This photograph show one player trying to win the ball whilst trying to hold off another at the same time, this image reminds me of one I took at Burton Albion. (Linked at the bottom) One thing that I would criticise about this image is the fact that neither the advertising boards or the crowd are out of focus they are quite distracting but if the background wasn't blurred it would be a really brilliant image.

Andrew Waller

Andrew Waller is a British photographer who takes photographs for the Watford Ladies team, along with this which is where most of his photographers come from, he also takes photos of a local U2 tribute band and of a local rugby team.

This photographs sees Watford playing Yeovil, it shows two players from each side battling for the ball. As the sunlight is minimal he wouldn't need a high ISO around 200 I would guess. He doesn't state on his website which camera uses but it is likely to be either a Canon 1D Mark III, IV or a Canon 1DX. I think that this is a good image mainly because it shows the players trying to usher each other away from the ball. This would have required settings around 1/500 in the shutter speed and f2.8-f5 aperture and ISO of 400.

The second photograph shows two players battling over the ball this is a very strong photograph because it shows the intensity of the match. The photo is a very strong one, something I could notice is the ball isn't completely in the shot and also the advertising boarding in the background is a bit of a distraction, and would be a lot better had it been blurred out a bit, this would have turned it into a much more impressive photograph.

The bottom photo shows one player chasing another to attempt to get the ball. This is in my opinion quite a strong image due to the detail in the image. The main problem with the photo is the fact part of the player, in yellow is missing from the bottom of the photograph. Another thing I can point out is that unlike the other photographs he has actually managed to blurred out the background which is an important part of football photography.

James Prickett

James Prickett is a football photographer who unlike most of the other photographers he specialises in women's football most of his don't focus around bigger clubs like Andrew Waller who takes pictures of Watford LFC who play in the second division of English women's football expect the bottom photo he very rarely does this.

This photograph shows a player who looks like she is about to score a goal. This photo I love mainly because it shows the goal being scored. This photo was likely taken at a high shutter speed due to high speed of the movement of the action. I would say the speed would have to be at least 1/600 of a second to be able to capture this image. It may not have been taken at this speed but regardless it is still a truly brilliant photograph.

 This photo shows two players battling for the ball. This image shows off all that can happen during a football match the picture has been taken at almost the perfect time. I think that this would have taken at around 1/750 due to the likely high speed of the action but at this point the players would have slowed down at this point to make the tackle but at the speed of this the photographer wouldn't have had time to change their shutter speed on the camera. This is still a really good photo but if the photographer had the settings on auto the shutter speed would not have been at the correct speed to get the correct sort of speed.

This photo like the one above shows a tackle being made like the one above but this photo has been taken just before the tackle is being made. Because of the angle of the players if this photograph had been taken had it been taken when the tackle was actually made this photo wouldn't actually be very good at all as the legs of the player making the challenge would been in the way of the ball and it would be seen. But this is a really brilliant photograph. I have seen a lot of photographs of players making tackles and I have tried to take a lot of good ones myself and this is one of the best.