Level 3 diploma in photography and photo imaging

Level 3 diploma in photography and photo imaging

Conclusion

I'm happy i finished off the remaining 4 units from Level 3 diploma in photography and photo imaging
Was nice to experiment with new ideas in my photography that i had not tyred before

Unit 205

Unit 310

Unit 212

Unit 306

                                                                                                                       

Home printing unit 310

I have decided to print 1 of my portrait photos at home
 to show the various methods of printing

My home printer EPSON STYLUS DX6050

First you can decide how you wanted your picture printed

from what size of paper to how many photos on one page

You can then decide what orttenration you want your picture

and in advance mode you can use black ink only

my pc and the printer it self shows how much ink you have left

                                          you have options for quality of paper draft just text
                                        , text and image , photo quality and best quality option

Printer problems

There is a option for a preview just before you print

This is a great tool just to make sure you have anything right

Troble shoooter for Various printer problems

Printing results and problems

I have not used my printer for few months so

My first prints had problems

Problem print > Only prints part of image

Also Image is not straight

Solution clean print heads make sure you in line your paper

Printing problem >horizontal banding

 Horizontal banding usually mean there is a blocked nozzle

Solution clean print heads

Problem print  > Prints black as red

Solution your black ink could be too low

so your printer is using red as it is the dominant colour

Final home print

Unit 310 Photo image output unit310

Photo image output

The Epson 3800 Stylus Pro printer.

                                                                                   Epson 3880

The Epson 3800 Stylus Pro printers features

Wehn ink is runnnig low it will show up on the printer and the screen

Changing the cartridges is quite easy

 

General Printer problems

Editing my final images for print

You pick what photos you want and drag them over

You can then make them any size you like

and add as many photo to a page as you like

I used the graphed lines to help me postion the photos

I placed 5 on 1 sheet of A2

Using the size of 16.5 x 23.4 pixels

Four of my product photos together

Printing

Printing options you can center the image

You can also scale to fit media so you don't miss any of your photo

Also you can pick how many copies you desire

Unit 310 Photo image output

Unit 310 to produce 10 thematic prints

For my products i wanted to use water as my theme

For my portraits my theme was females

I used  A2 Epson Luster paper on an Epson 3800 Stylus Pro printer.

Epson 3800 Stylus Pro printer

I put 4 photos on A2 printing paper

The quality of the pare was good showed

 up the various colours in my images

A selection of photos i took at college

Five protraits on A2 paper

Two photos of the same model on one A2 sheet

one model top and bottom portrait

and the the other model landscape

4 products on on sheet of A2

I put my dice and can on one sheet

I also had some test shots and prints shots printed at boots

using there Boots Digital Photo Kiosk

I printed the largest 10 x 15 inc

A 24 hour printing  for £3 each

I have also had a photo from my level 3 diploma

displayed in college exhibition

The water droplet

working to a photo brief unit 212 / 310 photo imaging output

Unit 212

Working on a photo image brief

To produce a calender of 12 images

I used bob books for this because of the quality of the final calender

 large sizes of calender you can order

You can have many different layouts to suit your design

There is editing software bobs photo editer

free to so you can edit and improve your images

There are many differnt looks you can go for

You can change many details of your calender from background

colour to size of days

You can organize what photo gos in what month

My choice was to have the calender transparent and have the photo

as the background and but another photo over the top

Price £29.99 plus £ 3 Postage = £32.99

My calender

Conclusion

I'm pleased with the calender
I like various colours and shapes of my photos