I have decided against including information about the Safari School in my PDF as there is so much information about it that would need to be included I feel it would benefit more from having a full information leaflet dedicated to it rather than a small amount of information being in a generic Safari Park booklet.

My booklet does not feature every aspect of the Safari Park, I have decided to keep it pretty brief and the reason for this is because the park has two booklets that they can give to customers. One is an activity pack/map that features a maps of the walk around area and the safari drive, tells you where everything is, all of the show times and safari drive times and also has stickers of the animals to place on the map as you drive around and see them. These activity packs do not feature a lot of information and are very basic but you get one for free per car when you pay to enter the park. The other booklet is a full Guide book which are available to buy for £2 each and they have in them absolutely everything you could possibly wish to know about the safari park. What I wanted to do was make a booklet that falls in between the two existing park booklets that can be given out for free and isn't too brief and doesn't have too much information inside them to take in - they just include what you need to know and what customers always ask to know.

In my initial plan I was going to include an FAQ section in my booklet but after consideration I think it isn't necessary as a lot of the FAQ's I see and hear are mostly regarding prices, opening times, where things are etc and I have already covered this within the booklet already.

Page layouts

I will be designing my PDF in a landscape A4 layout because when viewing it on a computer screen the whole page fits nicely on screen without zooming out and everything being too small. If I did it portrait I would have to zoom right out to fit it all on the screen and the text would be too small and hard to read. 

These are all screenshots from the Knowsley Safari Park website:

The screenshot below shows an example of the animal profiles. They have pictures of the animals, who they are, how old they can get, how big they grow, who their friends and family are, where they are from and their favourite food. 

At Knowsley you can also buy something called an animal encounter. Doing one of these gives you the opportunity to get up close and personal with the animals of your choice and you get to help feed and care for them for a day and learn about them and see how they live.

This is a screenshot of their current opening times. Currently it is in the winter opening times which is 10:30am opening and the last safari drive being at 3:00 and the park closing at about 4:00, however in the summer season the opening times vary between 10:00-4:00. and 10:00-4:30 before going to 10:00-3:30 then 10:30-3:00.

The website has directions on how to find the park, I will include this information in my PDF on the back page.

This is a timetable of what's on at the park during the winter. There isn't a lot currently happening, however between February-October there is a lot more to do. Some of these things include Sea Lion shows, birds of prey displays, woodland walks and keeper talks. 

These are the current entrance prices for the winter season. Currently it is £10 per person or £40 for a family of 4, with under three's being free. Over the summer season these prices rise to £16 per adult, £12 per child/OAP and £53 for a family ticket. Under three's remain free all year round and the walk about price of £7.50 also stays the same.

This is a small screenshot of the map of the walk around area. Within this map there are attractions such as a small fairground, a restaurant/cafe, the sea lion cove, birds of prey and a train around the park. Other things on the map include the car park, entrance and front office, the information centre and the toilets. Underneath is a screenshot of the navigation menu of some of these attractions that gives more details about them. 

Photography Editing software

Corel Paint Shop Pro x6 by Adobe. (The original Adobe but more advanced for artists who like to paint)

Link to the website used - http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/


Review found on Digital Arts website as shown above.  This products advantages simply are that there are more paint tools available for an artist if they work with brushes more than histograms and exposures.  There are multiple settings and a larger number of brush tools and more mixing of pallets than what you would normally get with Photoshop.  The program gives you the option to sample colours and choose from a number of different brush tools and settings.


Here are images of what the software looks like and how it can be used when selecting your tools.

 Price £262.50
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Disadvantages - Sometimes runs a bit slow.


By Julie & Danni x

This is another app on my iphone called Light Meter. It is a free app and it works just like a standard light meter. I use it for analogue photography, I just input my film's ISO, then point the phone camera at what I want to shoot and it tells me the correct shutter speed and aperture. I was a bit reluctant to use it at first because it was free and I didn't know how reliable it was, but I tried it with a roll of film and the film turned out fine. 

This is the photoshop express app on my iphone. It is a very basic mobile editing app by photoshop. It has filters, frames and basic effects and adjustments such as crop and red eye remover. The app that I use is the free version, there is another version that has more effects and filters available but you have to pay for it. Here are some screenshots that I took from my phone to show some of the features of the app:

When I have finished editing a picture it then gives me the option to share it through various forms of social media based on the apps I already have installed on my phone such as facebook, flickr, tumblr and email. Alternatively I can just save it to my camera roll to share at a later date.

Project Idea #2

Another idea I have for my project is to create an information leaflet for Knowsley Safari Park. To do this I will consider things like:

• Current animals
• Opening times
• Prices
• Activities available
• Maps
• Safety
• Facilities
• General information about the safari drive and walk around area

I will visit the park and take various photographs of both the animals and the park to illustrate my leaflet.

Project Idea #1

One of my ideas for the PDF project is to illustrate Lady Gaga's Prelude Pathétique, which is a speech/video written and directed by Lady Gaga and initially used as a sneak peak of the video for her single 'Marry the Night' before it was released and then turned out to actually be used in the full version of the official music video. It is quite a deep and emotional speech which is very personal to her because she used the video to re-enact her past and tell us the story of how she fought to get where she is today. The words to the Prelude Pathétique are:

"When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened, it's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way. And truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because.. I invented it. Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer. Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics, they can be lost forever. It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again. It's not that I've been dishonest, it's just that I loathe reality. For example, those nurses? They're wearing next season Calvin Klein, and so am I. And the shoes? Custom Giuseppe Zanotti. I tipped their gauge caps to the side like Parisian berets because I think it's romantic, and I also believe that mint will be very big in fashion next spring. Check out this nurse on the right, she's got a great ass. Bam. The truth is, back then at the clinic, they only wore those funny hats to keep the blood out of their hair. And that girl on the left? She ordered gummy bears and a knife a couple of hours ago. They only gave her the gummy bears. I'd wish they'd only given me the gummy bears."

The idea I have is to take a series of images that illustrate this speech from my point of view and then look further into the Marry the Night song and video and the story that she is telling us through them. 

Youtube Video: The Prelude Pathétique (Official)

Studio

ISO 100

f/8

1/60th 

When I took this picture for some reason the flash failed to fire properly and I ended up with this image. I tried it a second time and it worked a lot better as seen in the picture below:

This image used the exact same manual settings as the picture above, but with a properly working flash. I think the colours in the image look a bit washed out and desaturated though, so I have edited this and the rest of the pictures I took with Photoshop by altering the levels and curves to make them look more saturated and true to colour - as seen in the images below:

Below is a rough plan of the studio set up that was used to capture these photographs:

On my Olympus OM10 35mm SLR camera there are less manual options. Whereas on my DSLR I have the freedom to set my own ISO, aperture, shutter speed, white balance and the option of manual focus, my 35mm only allows me to set the aperture and the ISO, and even the ISO can only be one particular setting based on the film I load. The lens however can only be manually focused as there is no AF function. The shutter speed on this particular camera cannot be manually set, the camera chooses it automatically based on my ISO and aperture.

Image: Olympus OM10 35mm camera

 For manual settings on a DSLR camera you are in full control of your camera's settings including your shutter speed, ISO and aperture.
By setting your camera to manual you have the flexibility to be able to adjust your aperture depending on the lighting conditions and the nature of your shoot i.e. landscape, portraits.
You will find the manual button located at the top of your camera, usually on a dial that you can operate yourself.

Image 1: Manual dial

By using the manual settings you can also adjust your white balance and choose your own depth of field. The lower the aperture, the less depth of field you get.
Also, by setting your camera to manual you can achieve a greater depth of field by manually adjusting your white balance for aperture compensation.

To ensure you get the correct exposure for your lighting conditions it is best to use a light meter. Some cameras have these already built in.
You will find manual settings on all camera devices, including SLR's, DSLR's, phones and compacts.

Image 2: Manual display and controls

Image 3: A page of a camera manual

Image 4: All of the camera's manual dials

Some examples of images shot using the manual mode:

Mobile Phones
Most mobile phones have a camera built into them. They have very small sensors and they aren't all that great in low lighting and poor conditions but they are great for everyday snaps and the best thing is you always have it in your pocket.

Compacts
Digital compact cameras come with a huge variety of specifications and features. They are mostly automatic, but a few compact cameras do feature manual settings. They way they work, technically, is similar to a DSLR but they do not have interchangeable lenses and only feature optical/digital zoom. Compacts are mainly used for personal snaps, not professionally.

Disposable
Disposable cameras are film cameras that are thrown away after one use. They are very standard and simple to use. Just point, shoot, and develop the film. These are not common anymore because of the growing popularity of compact cameras.

Bridge
Bridge cameras are more advanced than compact cameras, but less than SLR's. They have one fixed lens that cannot be changed, however they do mostly feature a large optical zoom capacity. Bridge cameras allow full manual control but due to their smaller image sensor they do have a smaller variety of ISO sensitivity compared to DSLR's.

DSLR
DSLR's are both the semi-professional and professional choice. They are the more technical and more advanced step up from the compact camera and the bridge camera. They are fully manual but also with an option of automatic, aperture priority and shutter priority. With one of these cameras the possibilities are endless. There is a very wide range of different lenses you can buy for them and there are a lot of accessories and add-ons to be used with them.

35mm
35mm cameras are the analogue version of a DSLR. They are very old and aren't so common anymore since digital photography came about. There are two types of 35mm camera, the fully manual kind and the automatic kind. The manual one you have no choice but to set the aperture, shutter speed and ISO yourself, while the automatic will do a lot of it for you whilst allowing you to make some changes. 35mm film roles allow 24 to 36 exposures. Like the DSLR, there are a wide variety of lenses available to buy for these cameras.

Medium Format
A medium format camera is another analogue film camera. The difference between this and the 35mm camera is a bigger film size, but this also means it is generally more expensive to shoot in medium format rather than 35mm and is also limited to a smaller exposure count of 8 to 32.

Large Format
Large format is the largest available film size, the smallest of the kind - and most common - being 4x5 inches. Large format boasts a higher resolution image than 35mm or medium format. The downside to large format is the time consumption spent on preparing the film and setting up the camera, and also the quite expensive cost of the film and processing.

Digital Backs
For medium and large format cameras, it is possible to attach a digital back which enables you to take digital images rather than using film as intended. Initially the digital backs were connected to a computer via a cable which allowed the photographs to be stored as and when they were taken, but newer backs were able to store images inside them.

Pinhole
While special pinhole cameras and lenses exist and can be bought, it is also possible to make your own pinhole camera from common household objects and packaging. Both film and photographic paper can be used to capture images. The pinhole lens only lets in light through the tiniest pin-sized hole and it is up to you to control how long you expose for. This is a fun and experimental process and is fairly cheap, especially if you make your own camera.

Polaroid
Polaroid is a type of film camera. There is quite a varied range of film available for these cameras, but the images are printed instantly from the camera as soon as the shutter is pressed - thus no need for any darkroom processing or printing. The images you get from these cameras aren't the best resolution or quality, however there are some fun creative techniques that can be done with the exposed film. The downside to these cameras is the price of the film, which has risen in recent years and averages at around £15 for 8 exposures.





Digital

• No need to buy film - digital cameras have sensors to capture images
• Quick and efficient - just charge batteries and go
• No limit to how many photographs you can take - so long as you have sufficient memory card space
• Captured images can be viewed on the camera's screen 
• Images are automatically stored on a CF or SD card which are then transferred directly to a computer
• The only money you need to spend is on memory cards, spare batteries and equipment - and if you decide to print any images 

Analogue

• You need to buy film before you can shoot any images
• You are limited to how many images you can take depending on how many rolls of film you have
• You cannot see your captured images until the film has been processed
• It is time and cost consuming to process film
• You need a lot of darkroom access - without access to a darkroom you need to pay to send your film off to be processed elsewhere
• You need a lot of equipment to be able to process and print yourself
• Negatives and prints are not guaranteed to turn out well 
• The good thing is that it is fun and creative - the fact that you don't know what to expect 
• There are a lot of methods and techniques you can do with your printing and your negatives in the darkroom to make prints more interesting
• It is also possible to scan negatives straight to a computer to avoid printing in the darkroom

Reflections