This is a collection of new images, containing aspects of skating that have meaning to the individual. For example, the medals from competitions she has competed in, along with photos from her childhood showing her at the competitions. There are also images of her outfits and team tracksuit showing her achievement representing the GB team. The images of her skating shows the place she goes to practice and feel free whilst doing what she loves. My next step is to select my strongest images and begin to edit them. This will enable me to start creating a sequence for my photo book.
For my images, i intend to add a time stamp as they are mostly archived images, but also edit the colours too seem more ‘glowy’ and contrasted. I am deciding between editing all images on photoshop and adding my own timestamp, or using an application (HUJI) that will add a timestamp and change the contrast itself, and correct it after.
Original
Huji edit
Photoshop edit
Huji edited
I think i will add the huji effect to all of my images and then edit them further in photoshop to colour correct it and bring it back closer to the original, but with the timestamp. However, for the images i’m using that are disposables, i may have to edit the originals in photoshop as i wish to keep their natural colour, and then use a timestamp as text under the image, as i will have to find the date they were originally taken, not developed.
Disposable examples:
I prefer the misty colouring of the disposables originally, so these images will be edited with a different colour palette to the others
original
huji edited
These will all be edited with the huji edit and then corrected in photoshop, the majority of my projects images will have this colour pallette
These are just my selected images from the two new shoots along with the unused images from the original layout plan I did.
solo image (?)
solo image (?)
solo image (?)
I’ve now gone through all of my shoots, paired/layed out all of the images I can and reviewed and removed any images that just don’t work with my project as a whole. I know that as I move on to actually creating the photobook I will probably cut a few more images out and re-work the layout as I go along, but that depends on whether they turn out differently in the final product than in the temporary blog post layout here.
All in all I’m okay with the selection and layout of images I have here and I think they showcase the best of the shoots I did. Moving forwards, I’m going to put them into the photobook and do some more experimentation with the order of the images and how it forms my narrative, as well as possibly adding text of some sort.
