For my virtual gallery I decided to use a template which I found on google photos. Then I went into photoshop and created a new layer and uploaded the image. Next I selected three images from my Dubai photoshoot and closely edit them by adapting the contrasts and levels in the photograph.
I first chosen this gallery to photoshop my images however the image was off a low resolution so I decided to use a different one which has a higher resolution. I feel that the virtual gallery clearly reflects what the photographs may look like in a real gallery.
I feel that these three images work well together as all the colours within them merge together, in addition I also feel that each photographs have different contrasts within it.
The images seen on the pages of this newspaper supplement are extracted from a variety of projects and final outcomes produced over a two-year academic programme of study by a group of A-Level photography students at Hautlieu School. In their final year the themes of Identity and Community offered a specific focus and through a series of creative challenges students developed a body of work that were inspired, partly from visiting heritage institutions to learn about aspects of Jersey’s unique history of immigration and exploring migrant communities and neighbourhoods in St Helier in a series of photo-walks. In the classroom additional inspiration was provided from workshops on NFTs (non-fungible token) and digital art, embroidery and textile art, animation and film-making, zine and photobook design led by professional artists, designers and teachers.
As part of the research and contextual studies students were asked to engage with some of the key questions raised by the Government of Jersey’s Island Identity project and explore through their own photographic studies how they interpret and identify distinctive qualities of island life. What can we learn from looking at a set of photographs produced by young islanders? At first sight they show us a seemingly random set of images of places, people and objects – some familiar, others surprising. On closer inspection each image is a visual sign and also a conundrum. For example, a fish stuffed in a plastic bottle may ask us to consider more closely our marine environment, commercial fishing or food consumption. As a combined sequence of images they represent different views that in many ways comment on a wider discussion on some of the primary objectives explored in the Island Identity project, such as ‘how we see ourselves’ and ‘how others see us.’
The newspaper was kindly sponsored by Deputy Carolyn Labey, Minister for International Development and Assistant Chief Minister who in her foreword shares her personal thoughts on what makes Jersey special to her in context of the Island Identity project led by her department. She says, ‘identity involves searching our soul, engaging with difficult issues, and asking not only who we are, but how others see us and what a vision for the future might look like. The perspective of students and young people in this debate is critical. Identity is a broad and far-reaching concept, one unique to all of us. This collection of images recognises both our differences and our commonalties. These times may be uncertain, but in my view the topic – ‘what Jersey means to you’ – is a fundamentally optimistic and forward-looking one.’
The Identity and Community newspaper is the fourth supplement produced in collaboration between Hautlieu School Photography Department and Jersey Evening Post. In 2018 the first issue was The Future of St Helier and last year the themes of Love & Rebellion explored experiences of isolation and lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. Photographer and teacher Martin Toft, comments: ‘The question of ‘what makes Jersey special’ matters a great deal to every islander and as visual signs, the images printed on these pages are an attempt – not so much to provide answers – but rather asking questions about the essence of this island we call home, and how it actively will overcome current challenges in shaping a prosperous future for all.’
Various workshops and school trips for inspirations, recording and experimenting with new images and ideas of making
The image on the left of the first spread and the second double spread image are my selected images that have been included in the magazine.
Here is a simplified check list of what we expect to see posted on the blog from each individual student for ALL COMPLETED WORK.
PHOTOBOOK – Blog post showing how you developed your layout and comment on design process using screen grabs and annotation. – Blog post with final layout with every spread and write an evaluation. – Upload book design in Lightroom to Blurb and order your book via Blurb account – Once you have received book in the post bring into school
LINK TO ONLINE BLURB BOOK
Your final blog post should be an online link to you BLURB book with an evaluation. If you have already written an evaluation as part of another blog post on your book design then add the online link to that blog post and change the date to make sure it sits at the top.
Log into your blurb account and click on Sell my book
Click on Privacy & Sharing
Copy link circled in red above.
Make a new blog post: MY PHOTOBOOK and copy in link from Blurb into the title of your book using Link button above.
FILM – Blog post showing how you edited your film and comment on editing process using screen grabs and annotation. – Blog post with final film (streamed) and write an evaluation.
Export final film as mp4 file and upload to Youtube / Microsoft Streams and embed on Blog. Follow these steps
In Premier: Click on Sequence > Render IN/OUT
File > Export > Media
Export Settings: Format H.264
Output Name: use title of your film and save to V:Data drive
Click Export at bottom
Using Microsoft Stream: Open up Office 365
Go to All Apps and select Stream
Create > Upload Video
Browse to upload your exported film from V:Data drive
Write a short description, choose thumbnail and publish
My Content > Videos > embed film into Blog post with evaluation.
In Youtube: Set up an account at home (www.youtube.com)
Click Create (top right corner) > Upload video
Select file > your exported film from V:Data drive
Write a short description and choose thumbnail
Once uploaded, embed film into Blog post with evaluation.
FINAL PRINTS
– Mount and present final images. Make sure you put velcro and label on the back of the mounted image
– Mock display: Blog post showing evidence of how you intend to present and display your final prints – make mock up in Photoshop – for example. a single image or diptych, triptych, predella, size A5, A4 or A3, typology-style grid, collage etc.
– Virtual gallery: Download an empty gallery file…then insert your images and palce them on the walls. Adjust the persepctive, size and shape using CTRL T (free transform) You can also add things like a drop shadow to make the image look more realistic…
ALL COURSEWORK: Make sure all blog posts are completed – use Go4Schools tracking sheet.
Write an evaluation, reflecting on the experience of being part of making a newspaper and working on IDENTITY & COMMUNITY project and put it here at the top of the blog post, titled: IDENTITY & COMMUNITY. Specifically, select your images and spreads for comments.
Copy and past all the below and publish as your own blog post.
IDENTITY & COMMUNITY Newspaper
The images seen on the pages of this newspaper supplement are extracted from a variety of projects and final outcomes produced over a two-year academic programme of study by a group of A-Level photography students at Hautlieu School. In their final year the themes of Identity and Community offered a specific focus and through a series of creative challenges students developed a body of work that were inspired, partly from visiting heritage institutions to learn about aspects of Jersey’s unique history of immigration and exploring migrant communities and neighbourhoods in St Helier in a series of photo-walks. In the classroom additional inspiration was provided from workshops on NFTs (non-fungible token) and digital art, embroidery and textile art, animation and film-making, zine and photobook design led by professional artists, designers and teachers.
As part of the research and contextual studies students were asked to engage with some of the key questions raised by the Government of Jersey’s Island Identity project and explore through their own photographic studies how they interpret and identify distinctive qualities of island life. What can we learn from looking at a set of photographs produced by young islanders? At first sight they show us a seemingly random set of images of places, people and objects – some familiar, others surprising. On closer inspection each image is a visual sign and also a conundrum. For example, a fish stuffed in a plastic bottle may ask us to consider more closely our marine environment, commercial fishing or food consumption. As a combined sequence of images they represent different views that in many ways comment on a wider discussion on some of the primary objectives explored in the Island Identity project, such as ‘how we see ourselves’ and ‘how others see us.’
The newspaper was kindly sponsored by Deputy Carolyn Labey, Minister for International Development and Assistant Chief Minister who in her foreword shares her personal thoughts on what makes Jersey special to her in context of the Island Identity project led by her department. She says, ‘identity involves searching our soul, engaging with difficult issues, and asking not only who we are, but how others see us and what a vision for the future might look like. The perspective of students and young people in this debate is critical. Identity is a broad and far-reaching concept, one unique to all of us. This collection of images recognises both our differences and our commonalties. These times may be uncertain, but in my view the topic – ‘what Jersey means to you’ – is a fundamentally optimistic and forward-looking one.’
The Identity and Community newspaper is the fourth supplement produced in collaboration between Hautlieu School Photography Department and Jersey Evening Post. In 2018 the first issue was The Future of St Helier and last year the themes of Love & Rebellion explored experiences of isolation and lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. Photographer and teacher Martin Toft, comments: ‘The question of ‘what makes Jersey special’ matters a great deal to every islander and as visual signs, the images printed on these pages are an attempt – not so much to provide answers – but rather asking questions about the essence of this island we call home, and how it actively will overcome current challenges in shaping a prosperous future for all.’
Various workshops and school trips for inspirations, recording and experimenting with new images and ideas of making
For my second photoshoot, I wanted to take portraits in an outdoor setting, similar to those of Lillie Langtry’s portraits taken in nature. To do this I picked an outside area with agriculture such as trees and flowers in order to capture the cascading sunlight onto the face. I also used the same costume from my first photoshoot to incorporate the vintage style of Lillie Langtry’s era. I used both a short and long lens to achieve a strong depth of field in some of my images, to recreate the same depth of field in the photos of Langtry.
Recreating Lillie Langtry’s portraits
Once adding my images into Lightroom, I rated them through the flag and colour system to narrow down the large group of images into a selection that I wanted to use and edit for my final images. The images highlighted in green are what I believe to be my most successful images and those which I want to further improve.
Editing my images
To edit my images, I began by adding a black and white filter to the images, and adjusted the exposure and contrast in a similar way to my first photoshoot to give the images a vintage aesthetic. By altering the exposure and contrast it enables the images to become lighter and softens the contrast between the highlights and the harsh shadows.
Then I added a yellow tone in colour grading to the images to create the idea of the images being faded and weathered. I also altered the temperature and tint of the image to make the images have a warmer yellow tone to them.
To add detail to the images, I added a grain affect and lowered the clarity and texture of the image to reinforce the image being ‘vintage’ and to recreate the grain and textures of an old film camera.
For my second photoshoot, I want to recreate images of Lillie Langtry with the natural and agricultural scenery.
Lillie Langtry by Henry Van der Weyde (1885)
To recreate images similar to this, I am using the same costume from my first photoshoot to give the images an antique aesthetic and to give the impression that the image was taken during the same era as Langtry in a fashion sense. I am also going to take the images outside rather than the studio to achieve the same cascading, natural lighting. I want the setting to feature agriculture such as trees and flowers to reiterate the ‘feminine’ ambience of the photo above.
I will try to achieve the strong depth of field that is displayed in the photographs of Langtry by using both a short and long lens.
To start creating my photo-book I first went through my photoshoots closely and decide which photos to use and also which photos could be edited and developed more to add details; as well as making sure my photos were of a high resolution.
Next I started on deciding the layout of the photos and where I should place them on each page as I felt that the way in which you place them has an impact on the viewer, which creates more of an understanding on what your trying to portray within the photo-book.
After I decided on the layouts of the photographs I decided that it may add more affect if I added a black background colour as this won’t take any attention away from the photographs it will add detail, whereas if I was to use a bright colour background with my photographs it may take attention away from them which is not what I’m trying to achieve. To show the significant differences within cultures, linking back to power and wealth I wanted to put my images from my first photoshoot of derelict buildings in the first half of my book along with the part of my essay that relates, and then with the second half of my photo-book I wanted to show the contrast within cultures by using images that I took in Dubai. Along with the contrast between my first set of images and my second set of images taken in Dubai, there is also images that show contrast within Dubai itself- with the notable differences between the old Dubai town, and the new well known Dubai Mall.
I then went ahead and combined the two books to create one as I felt that this will help the viewer clearly see the contrasts between the two photoshoots. I used 2 pages to separate the photoshoots and applied a black background cover to keep the overall theme of the book flowing.
