Media Arts

Artist of the Week - Jack D’Elia Media Studies Year 9

"The interesting thing about these photos is that none of them were planned. I just saw something that looked like it would be a good photo, pulled out my phone, and photograph edit. And funnily enough, these are probably three of my best photos. They prove that you don't need a fancy camera or expensive lenses to take good photographs.

It's more about what's in the photo than the quality of the photo itself. After all the pictures were taken, I went on to editing. I've been taught to use Photoshop in Media Arts, but I'd much prefer Lightroom. It makes it way easier to sort photos, as well as being overall less complicated than Photoshop, in my opinion. For the photo of the Ichneumon Wasp, I added some vignette, messed with the tone curve and color, as well as cropped the image. 

For the Corvette's editing, I darkened the image, added vignette, messed with color, and cropped the image, as well as applied some other effects. Last but certainly not least is how I edited the photo of the cat, Ginel.  And in short, I didn’t. The photo of Ginel is completely unedited. I don’t even think it was cropped. I honestly think the lack of editing makes it look great—it's the same as it was when it was taken.

Next, I had to print them out and make them look nice to go on the wall of Room 21. To do this, after they were printed, I picked out one A3 piece of paper foreach photo, making sure they matched the main colors in the pictures. Then, after making aone-centimeter border around each of the photos, I ruled up the paper to ensure the photoswere centered. Then, I glued it all together, wrote my name, the title, and the date. Next, they were ready to be pinned to the wall. Making sure they were level, I put in the matching pins, and they were done."  Jack D’Elia.

Sara Warner

Senior Arts Teacher