After exploring a few ideas, to begin with, whilst starting my project, I next wanted to plan a few different ways that I could end up presenting my outcomes as a final design. As I mentioned in my last post  I would like to think of my project as a potential documentary e-book. However as I have not started yet, and am not sure how many outcomes I will be able to produce in the short amount of time given, I also want to prepare a few different ideas. The specification for this exam project is to simply produce a final selection of inspired and beautiful photographs based on our own ideas. Because my images will explore the theme of environmental awareness using a  mixture of abstract, staged and straight photography techniques I need to think of how they will work together. If I decide not to go forward with my e-book idea I will most likely be using one of the presenting techniques demonstrated below…

Depicted above is a quick diagram made in Photoshop, using many different layers, showing how I might set up my final pieces as two separate but equally as important designs. I created this simple example to show how (depending on how my images work together) it might be best to split them up into symbolism and documentary/studio and location photographs and present them as two different projects, done on the same environmental awareness subject. To create this kind of presentation I will print of my finals as a mixture of A3, A4 and A5 pieces and spray mount them onto two separate large white boards.

As well as this I really like the idea of presenting contrasted images together in pairs like in the photographer’s examples I have presented below. This technique was amazingly put to use by artist and filmmaker Luke Fowler’s who has created a series of half-frame photographs recently published in his book called ‘Two-Frame Films’.  With this Fowler explores the relationship between two juxtaposed images with naturally created diptychs that oddly work very well together. Although his images are completely different and portray non-related subjects, there is always something connecting each photograph that makes them really compliment and emphasise each other. I really like this technique and think that it may be something I explore when trying to put together a mixture of my studio and on location finals. As Well as Luke Fowler’s, on the second row of the contact sheet below, is a few more examples of this diptych presentation skillfully put together by Photographer Mike Terry. I love the way Terry has grouped his interesting photographs as some appear to be two closely related frames from the same event and others are simply united by the quality of light, subjects, colours or moods…