Completed Photobook

This is my completed photobook:

This is a link to my photo book as a PDF:

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Evaluation

Overall, I am very impressed with my photo book. I think that it has turned out how I had visioned for it to in my head in terms of layout and design. If I were to be able to go back and improve this photo book I would probably try and get more images which have both old and new buildings in the same location to show them next to each other. This is because I don’t think the transition from old to new architecture is very clear. I also think that my images vary quite a bit from my artist references, however, each of the photos are to my visual style which I think makes the photo book more successful as there’s not such a huge contrast between the two sets of images.
Overall, I am very impressed with my photo book. I think that it has turned out how I had visioned for it to in my head in terms of layout and design. If I were to be able to go back and improve this photo book I would probably try and get more images which have both old and new buildings in the same location to show them next to each other. This is because I don’t think the transition from old to new architecture is very clear. I also think that my images vary quite a bit from my artist references, however, each of the photos are to my visual style which I think makes the photo book more successful as there’s not such a huge contrast between the two sets of images.

This will be the first page of my photobook, its a sentence stating that its hard to see whats right in front of you, its a symbolic sentence to some up my whole photobook that a lot goes on in a teenagers life, in their head, the reality, compared to what people actually see. As i find it very important to focus on these factors as a teenaer who’s not always loving the school life and stress.

these pages are to show stress and school and how school affect things that are meant to be so important, like sleep, all teenagers are told to get 8-10 hours of sleep as it keeps you wellrested and ready for the day but from the pile up of work and stress sometimes we aren’t getting to sleep until late in the morning, it also demonstartes anxiety and being overwhelmed by looking at the mess on the desk of papers and tests and homework and so on, and its also a mess that a teenager might get told off for.

This page continues on from the school pages as it shows what sometimes teenagers would rather be doing and use as a distraction.

This is how I was going to first present this page, when I looked at some Jim goldberg pages and realise this just didnt give the right affect it needed something more.

I then moved on to this page of adding the rain next to the image to make it seem like when you look out the window like archiewas this is what you can see, as rain gives a sad affect and also its a blurred skewed image of what might also be in the head.

this image actually didn’t end up staying in my final piece because it was more of a practise of writing on the image and didn’t look as good or professional as I wanted it also didn’t go with my other images.

this was my practice last page but I wasn’t feeling it as the images didn’t go how I wanted and it was too much going on.

I tried to give a continous balck background to all my images to add to the effect nd make the images stand out, I thought it wet well as it was dark and gloomier, and corresponded well with the majority black and white images, I also kept my writing on the images or next to them to keep the story because yes a photo tells 1000 stories but it was important that the teenagers stories actually ame out and was presented, it ry to keep a sequence of how I present my images ina decently together story.

These are all the photographs I picked to use for my photobook, but I only used the high quality images.

At first it was a struggle to find a title but I used the title “Paraíso” which means paradise in Portuguese. I decided to use the word paradise because being with friends and family and especially being in your native island feels like paradise, and feels like everything is just amazing. I then decided to translate it since my first language is Portuguese and most of the photoshoots in my book is from madeira.

This is my final print layout.

For my third photoshoot I took a photoshoot of different places in madeira and photos of my family there too. I decided to do this because it will show a bit of my family background and what culture I come from.

Below are some of the edited images I am going to use in my photobook. This photoshoot was very fun to do because it made me close to my family since we spent a lot of time together and we explored different parts of the island we have never been with amazing views.

For my second photoshoot I took portraits of my friends of them doing what they love doing, being at their favourite place, having fun and posing. This photoshoot represents teenage life with friends and some people who I grow up with.

Below are some of the edited images I am going to use in my photobook.

Most of the photographs are black and white because in my opinion it creates a sense of drama and mystery nut also shows the different tones of black and white which make it stand out.

For my first photoshoot I took some pictures of different places that represent jersey such as the harbour, Gorey Castle, le fregate, fort regent, St Catherine’s representing the environment I had when I was born compared to my other culture. And showing the places I have been to the most growing up.

Below are some of the edited images I am going to use in my photobook.

I decided to edit out the car in this image because it looked pretty boring and too busy with a car and chairs in the way. Without it looks more of a calming place to just go for a walk and admire.

For the right image, I thought it was too dark so I made it lighter since it would be more eye catching.

These are my gallery mock ups of my best images and they showcase the most important places that my grandad loved when he came to visit the island.

Final Mock ups

This is one of my final mock ups done in photoshop where I have left white borders between the images to show exactly how I have created the Mock up.

This is the second mock up on photoshop I have made where I mounted the images on to foamboard and then used double sided tape to stick the foamboard to the mountboard.

Virtual Gallery

Evaluation:

Overall my images have been successful as I was able to restage multiple older images and make them look similar. I also like how I have edited many of the images to suit the certain tones of the older photos. If I were to redo this project I would try use similar backgrounds while restaging some of the images.