Creating a Virtual Gallery.

My Chosen Gallery Image:

When creating my virtual gallery I like to first begin with choosing a good, strong empty gallery image which will display my images to their best quality and will look good whilst being displayed, I like to have a white wall image which shows light onto the pictures as if they are in a real gallery, whilst being displayed on black canvases.

My Chosen Images:

I then chose my best images from my first photoshoot that I wanted to be displayed in order to show off my work in the best way possible and show the best images from this shoot to be put into a virtual gallery. I chose these 4 images specifically as I feel this amount of pictures fitted the layout of my chosen virtual gallery the most.

Creating Virtual Gallery:

I first started by importing a virtual gallery into Adobe Photoshop and positioned it to fit the shape well. I then imported my 5 images and fitted them to the best scale on these evenly sized picture frames. I quite like how the images do not completely fi the frames as it shows each image is different and displays them all in a way that is not too boring on the eye and stays interesting and different when viewing each different picture.

Shadows and Perspectives:

For this specific chosen empty gallery image, I did not have to work on my chosen perspectives such as tilting them as if they are on e.g. a side-on wall facing inwards, as all 5 images are facing forwards. This means that instead I had to focus on the shadows that would occur if these images were to be on a wall. For this i used the drop shadow icon. To achieve this..

I first double clicked my chosen layer which contained the image I wanted to create a shadow for first…

Then appears the layer style tool bar which allows me to add my drop shadow my clicking the ‘drop shadow’ icon at the bottom.

I am then able to choose the opacity, distance, spread, size and angle in which I want my shadow to be. I need my shadow to be below the images as this is the perspective that is created when an image is presented on a wall facing forwards.

Here is my final first outcome of a virtual gallery of my images, feel this is a good first virtual gallery displaying 5 images from the first section of my book. This is the photoshoot is used to represent a 1960’s/1970’s women’s fashion and lifestyle magazine which is used to influence the styles and choices day-to-day, of women that were living during this period.

My Next Virtual Gallery.

My Chosen Images.

These are my 4 chosen images for my virtual gallery, I feel these images are the strongest from the second section of my magazine which is a photoshoot dedicated to my modern day girls magazine section of my magazine. This section is demonstrating a magazine targeted at teenage girls and younger adults and the unrealistic beauty standards that are forced upon them. I decided to create my virtual gallery on Artsteps this time, in order to create more variety in my virtual galleries and show different methods of presenting my work. I found using Artsteps particularly confusing, but after getting an understanding of how it works, I was able to figure out the instructions and way to create this gallery.

My Final Outcome:

My Next Virtual Gallery.

My Chosen Images.

These are my 5 chosen images for my virtual gallery, I feel these images are the strongest from the third and final section of my magazine which is a photoshoot dedicated to my modern day women’s magazine section of my magazine. This section is demonstrating a magazine targeted at women who may be transitioning into older age, or who may just be struggling with body image. It is a magazine which is highlighting the unrealistic beauty standards that are forced upon them in today’s age and how they are toxic and must be overcome. I also used Artsteps again for this virtual gallery in order to gain more confidence with using the software, for future purposes, such as my exam.

My Final Outcome:

Overall, I feel this process of creating virtual galleries has been successful for trying out new software and attempting to display my images in the best way possible. However, overall I feel I prefer to edit, input and display my images in Adobe Photoshop, and I feel for my exam work, this will be the best way possible to create my virtual galleries, although I think these three galleries have been mostly successful.

Throughout my gallery I presented it with similarties to my final photobook but also a little different I added all similar images together and not my images just what I would say our my best. This is the first part of my virtual gallery, I really liked these photos but the two of the people in the car without the writing werent my favourite, i liked that they showed inside of teenage life and laughing a different side of what some people might see the fun with being a teenager and with your friends. the distraction from other things. The over photos are just of the weather to even give a juxstaposing affect and Pathetic fallacy, even though the images seem to be happy and rain reflect sadness its because even though they are happy there is the dark truth inside of how they really feel and you cant always get away from it.

Again all these images have a similar relavance to eachother, as rhey are all the same guy, it goes well together even though i did not present it like this in the book, because as you can see its mainly his back turned or hiding his face in usally dark or sad places, only really one not is the skating photo this demonstrates more of the depressed and sad side of being a teenager, and shows teir escape, with doig certain activites even if that incudes walking alone at night, just to get air and escape. The arge photo next to all the images,of his face is a symbolic resembolince that life is tiring and drags on sometimes, yes life is actually eautful but just bein a teenager isnot an easy aspect but fight through it. I like these imaes because i think they show skills ofphotography especially the one of his face with the lighting, i also think the affect fromall of them is powerful and somehow says a lot even in a silent photograph.

This was more of my romantic side, another side of teeage life i think is overlooked, how watching the love in our lives be twisted by who we see like our parents or social media, but a usual quote iven to teenager is that ‘you dont know what love is your too young’ or ‘its never going to last’ and i think thats not true and there is another side to it sometmes you can find love and jst beause we are young doesnt mean that we dont know what ove is or that it doesnt exist, of course there are twisted and cmplicated sides to it but it still exisits in our lives. i like how these images correspond and contradict with eachogher, showing the loving side and the complicated sides, things even we worry about at our age even though we shouldnt have to.

This area of my gallery is of school, the rough effort side of school and what actually goes on. I especially like the two photosof the messy desk, i like the ffect of a spotlight on the photos almost like its a crime scene or a scary movie, which demonstates what it is, its a crime scene of the mess school makes all the work andeffort teenagers and students put into school.

This was the last few photos which I also really liked as they show a darker side to teenage life and also the fact that not all teenager have the easy life of school until their 18 and some have to cut it short and head straight into work to support their families lives and grow up a little too quickly, mainly i wanted to demonstarte all sorts of sides from what teenage life is like for everyone best i can. I also just genuinly really liked these photos as i think they give apowerful affect, i think the lighting on his face isnt the absoloute best but i like how they all link together.