Narrative: What is your story?

• 3 words – Family, friends, cultures.
• A sentence – My book will show two different cultures with family and friends from both those cultures.
• A paragraph – In my book there is going to be a mixture of photoshoot from Jersey, where I was born and where my parents and whole family are from which is Madeira. I’m going to show how jersey looks and who I love spending time with and then i’m going to do the same in madeira.

Design: Consider the following

• How you want your book to look and feel
• Paper and ink – My pages are all going to be white since my photographs are all in different tones and shades so with a white background it makes the images stand out more.
• Format, size and orientation – standard portrait 8 x 10 in (20 x 25 cm)
• Title – Paraiso

2. Produce a mood-board of design ideas for inspiration. Look at BLURB online book making website, photo books from photographers or see previous books produced by Hautlieu students on the table in class.

Here are my final images that I will be printing and placing on a board to present my Images. I chose these images as I think they are some of my strongest and there is a lot of variety. I will be printing the black and white studio photos in A3 and the rest in A5.

Evaluation

Overall, I believe that my personal study on the difficulties of being an athlete was successful. I was able to use my knowledge of different portrait lighting from past areas of study , especially with Rembrandt lighting, to create many interesting shots in the studio. Manipulating light also bring attention to detail in areas of the photograph that I would like, further enhancing the final images from the studio. Outside of the studio, I believe my photoshoots with Tony helped add a story to my personal study, creating a deeper meaning to it all. It also helped me form a photo book that wasn’t bland and had some story to it. However, I only had a limited number of photos to use with tony in it so next time I will improve by taking more photoshoots, as well as having more of a variety of images to chose from, making it easier to create a meaningful photobook. My documentary photos on the court where my some of my strongest, as I wasn’t afraid to get close to the side court. But ,unfortunately, my photos where saving as a compressed format in the camera, making a lot of them unusable for the photobook. Edited photos was also slightly lacking in my personal study since It was difficult to find artist reference for a lot of my documentary photos on the court. I also believe I could of done more photoshoots, especially with some relating to Tom Wood, an artist i rigorously analysis and didn’t use as much as I originally planned.

Despite these setbacks, my in-depth research of a wide variety of photographers, as well as photographic methods helped me create a good starting base to create a well formulated personal study.