Day 1

Select your images in Adobe Lightroom and clearly show your selection process on the blog…include your reasoning for your choices eg how do they link to your artist reference?

Edit, manipulate and enhance your images using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop (or other methods)

Take regular screenshots to show the key changes in your process

CONTROLLED CONDITIONS : Essentials

Always ensure you have enough evidence of…

1. Mood-board, definition and introduction (AO1)
2. Mind-map of ideas (AO1)
3. Artist References / Case Study (must include image analysis) (AO1)
4. Photo-shoot Action Plan (AO3)
5. Multiple Photoshoots + contact sheets (AO3)
6. Image Selection, sub selection (AO2)
7. Image Editing/ manipulation / experimentation (AO2)
8. Presentation of final outcomes (AO4) ENSURE THIS IS A SEPARATE BLOG POST
9. Compare and contrast your work to your artist reference(AO1)
10. Evaluation and Critique (AO1+AO4)

Day 2

Aim to complete your editing…review and reflect on your process

What is working well?

What do you need to change or improve?

How are you going to sequence and order your images / prints ? This can drastically alter the story and impact of your images. Think about the size and shape of your images too…

Remember : 1 image = statement / 2 images = a question

Day 3

File Handling and printing...

This will ensure you have the correct ASPECT RATIO

Ensure you label and save your file in you M :Drive and then coip across to the PRINT FOLDER / IMAGE TRANSFER

For a combination of images, or square format images you use the 

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP > NEW DOCUMENT + PRINT PRESETS on to help arrange images on the correct size page (A3, A4, A5)

You can do this using Photoshop, Set up the page sizes as templates and import images into each template, then you can see for themselves how well they fit… but remember to add an extra 6mm for bleed (3mm on each side of the page) to the original templates. i.e. A4 = 297mm x 210 but the template size for this would be 303mm x 216mm.

2nd Photoshoot Contact Sheets – Inside

For my second photoshoot, I focused on taking pictures of myself in my own room. I used a tripod and a timer and had to manually press the button on the camera in order to take the pictures and because of that most of the images are out of focus. However, I like the way they look because I feel like it adds more personality. The only props I used were a match box, a glass bottle and a book. To improve I think I should take more pictures and try out different angles and the use of more props would also make the images look better.

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Extra Contact Sheets – Outside

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This is not a photoshoot and the pictures were not planned, they’re just random photos I’ve taken in the past 2 weeks or so. I think it’s a good idea adding them here because they are part of me and who I am as an individual.

Best Images:

I have picked these images as my best shots because I like the framing of some and how they are not in focus. I think they will all look good together later on.

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List of ideas –

• Collaged
• Collaged together in the shape of an object/person
• In a Sequence
• One photo/multiple photos in a frame
• Create the illusion as if the photos have been taken on a polaroid.
• Creating a virtual gallery.

How I will do it –

I have decided to create a virtual gallery which can be done on photoshop.

1. Choose 3-6 pictures which I think work well together that create a message.
2. Edit them on Adobe Lightroom.
3. Upload them to photoshop and arrange them on a template picture of a gallery from the internet.

Claude Cahun, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer.

Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae.

Cahun’s work is both political and personal. During World War II, Cahun lived in Jersey and was active as a resistance worker and propagandist

Cahun lived in Jersey during the Occupation, her resistance activities during that time led to her imprisonment.

A death sentence was commuted and she was freed from prison when Jersey was liberated. She lived in Jersey with her stepsister until her death in 1954.

Since her “rediscovery” over a decade ago, Claude Cahun has attracted what amounts to a cult following among art historians and critics working from postmodern, feminist, and queer theoretical perspectives.

Photographs of Cahun posing in the 1920s and 30s in various dramatic settings and guises have been displayed alongside contemporary works, showing the timelessness of her work.

Identity is what sets an individual apart from those surrounding them and is influenced of by a persons environment, upbringing, gender, culture and more. These factors can change how people think of others and themselves which can also lead to a lack of identity where an individual may question who they are and may feel disconnected from who they are as a person. All of these factors can affect how a person dresses/acts towards others due to their personal experience throughout life.

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Claude Cahun [1894-1954]

Claude Cahun was a French surrealist photographer who challenged identity, gender and social norms by taking androgynous self-portraits, looking drastically different in each portrait due to the characters they portrayed in each photoshoot. They embraced gender fluidity in their work by dressing up in different clothing [most of which society wouldn’t have accepted back then] and would pose in interesting ways, making their work easily recognisable due to their artistic flare.

“Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.”^[4]

– Claude Cahun

Angela Kelly

Angela Kelly is an Irish photographer whose work focuses on documenting women and exploring historical places. I will be taking inspiration from some of her early work, specifically her collection ‘Woman’s Identity’. In this collection, she takes a variety of self portraits, all in black and white, and focuses on how she’s changed over a period of 5 years both in her work and mind as she becomes a photographer and feminist.

“The visual history of women is an incomplete record. If we don’t make a record of our lives it’s as if we didn’t exist.” – Angela Kelly, July 1987