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March 11, 2022 Olivia M-G Leave a comment

Experimenting With Layout

Montage

These montages I have created showcases various images of my grandad and grandma along with some pieces of text that contextualise their lives and work throughout the years. I created this using Photoshop, cutting out sections of some images, as well as tracing over images of my grandma’s handwriting to create the text. These pieces will also feature in my photobook as part of my personal study project. I have also laid them out on the page to be a full bleed, meaning the image will go to the edge of the page with minimal borders.

Juxtaposition

Here I have used again images from my personal study project and photobook to create a juxtaposing spread. Here, these two images contrast with each other due to the left image being in colour whilst the right is in black and white, excluding the stitching. However they are still relating in the way that they both part of the same project and feature my grandparents in different forms. The photograph on the left displays the hands of my grandma and grandad, showing a ring my grandad gave my grandma many years ago. On the right is also features both grandparents although with embroidery using white thread to highlight their strong relationship with each other and red thread to represent the bloodlines and family they have created.

Here I tried using images from my Anthropocene project that show contrast through one image being in black and white and one being a colour image with a bold orange hue. These link together as well, due to them both displaying what St. Ouens bay would look like if it was not a protected piece of land.

Sequence

This sequence showcases various digital edits I have made using archival images of my grandparents. These display the story of my grandparents hard work ethic that my personal study is based on, touching on subjects such as my grandads job and my grandma’s caregiving nature.

I have also created another spread of sequential images instead featuring reworked pieces I have created by hand, using techniques such as embroidery. These images in particular are taken from recent photoshoots also made for my personal study project.

Full bleed

In addition to potentially having one of my montage pieces I could also use the embroidered pieces from my personal study project.

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Making the Newspaper

March 11, 2022 Chantal LB Leave a comment

Selecting my photos

Through Lightroom I chose my best three images and edited out the imperfections such as smudges on the camera lens. Once the images were edited, I exported them into a sperate folder in order to export into InDesign.

My Final Images

Experimenting with layout

As my photographs were all portraits, I only used single page spreads to keep the dimensions of the image correct. For two of the images I kept a white border around the edge, and to create some juxtaposition I stretched one image out to the bleed of the page. I like this layout as it provides a sense of an old family photo album, which adds to the vintage aesthetic to the photographs.

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Personal Study: Development of images from Shoot 2

March 11, 2022 Anya Nightingale-Bataille Leave a comment

First I imported the image onto photoshop so that I could crop it in half perfectly by halving the height.

Then I dragged them onto a new file on photoshop and resized them by editing the width and the height in the properties toolbar and moved them around to get the right sequence.

Experiments

When creating these outcomes I wanted to make interesting compositions rather than having a perfect rectangular shape. I wanted to have the similar misaligned compositions as Shilpa Gupta and create a split between the old images and the new. I wanted to create some smaller sequences but also some longer sequences so that I had a variety of different shapes and lengths.

When choosing the images that would be in the same sequence I looked at the subjects, orientation and colour in each image and decided which ones would match or contrast well with others.

I decided to create a different version of experiment 3 because once I had cropped the images I realised that one was cropped as half sky and half land. I do not like how the sky was just a block of colour in the sequence therefore, I changed it to an image that had less of the sky in the top third, which makes the image more interesting and helps the sequence flow better.