Here are the images I will be using for my photobook. I chose my best images as well as images that included the main subject, tony. I colour coded them to help me organise the layout in the photobook. Purple means its documentary photos of a basketball game. blue are photos of tony in his room. Green are photos of the team mates. yellow are only portrait photos of the team mates faces. and red are photos that don’t fit the rest of the images. The star rating is not important here.

Below is my first try at laying out these images:

Here I have another montage right after the page with Tony in it. This increases the isolation that tony has as pages before and after it are full of people. I also added Tommy on the right and I think It complements the headshots on the left quite well, almost like a ‘zoom in’ into Tommy’s headshot.

I think these two images contrast each other nicely, one is almost sad with the subjects face looking down, likely tired. The other image seems exciting with its vibrant colours, as well as a nice slam dunk in the background.

Here I added to Images that contrast each other again, to add more to this book, making it more interesting. From this part of the book you stop seeing tony, showing that his obsession to be the best has stopped him completely from having fun playing the sport that he loves.

These two images are nicely contrast, with the left image replicating the famous photo of the largest and shortest players, Gheorghe Muresan and Muggsy Bogues:

Here I added more documentary photos of the basketball game, once again not including tony to show his participation in the team is dwindling.

For the final image I decided to use this image of Jesper looking very excited to be there, showing a lot of positive emotion. I think this image finishes of this book quite nicely since it shows that sport is meant to be played for fun, and trying to hard where you stop finding the sport fun is not worth it. I also used this image of Jesper specifically since he is shown a lot more towards the end of the book, making him the centre of attention. The book is divided into 2 parts I think, Tommy’s section at the start and Jespers section at the end, as well as having Tony presented thought the book. This allows me to show 3 different story’s at once, with each subject showing how different there personality is.

I decided to change the front cover to:

This is because I took my documentary photos using a very compressed format so when I scale up my images they become very blurry, so I changed it to a basketball hoop photo too keep with the theme and stop pixilated images from being an issue.

I then added the essay about tableaux vs documentary to the photo book:

As you can see I added the title to its own page spread to lead the reader into the essay.

Evaluation

I think I did a good job at creating a story of a player using photos from 3 different photoshoots. The things I did well in was having a variety of different types of images (including documentary and tableaux, portrait and landscape). I also made use of Juxtaposition with the images, paring coloured and B&W images in an aesthetic way. I used Adobe Garamond Pro for the font, keeping it consistent throughout the book. I also like the minimalist text I added below some of the images to give context to the viewer.

However, I think I didn’t add enough text to the photobook overall, making it less exciting to read. I also think I lacked in the amount of photos I took, especially with the main figure in this book, tony. The image quality was also a problem meaning I cant scale up a lot of my images, making it difficult to lay out the photos in the way I want. I also think the editing is too inconsistent, with some images being slightly darker, some being too colourful, ext.

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.

To create my photobook, I used the book mode in Lightroom Classic.

Image Selection

First, I selected all the images, which I have highlighted green and edited in all my photoshoots under this personal study and put them in a new folder called photobook, as they are my best images and the ones I have chosen to use for my book.

Next, I went through my images a removed the images which weren’t in my top 50, as I had selected over 150 images, and this would be way too many pages for my photobook, so instead I aimed for 50 pages.

Setting up my Book

Once I had my finished selection of images, I went into the book setting in Lightroom.

Next, I selected the size and orientation that I wanted my book to be.

Then, I chose whether I wanted a hard cover or soft cover book, as well as choosing what paper I wanted to use for my book.

I chose a hardcover book, as I feel this would be more aesthetically pleasing for my book. I also chose glossy premium lustre for my paper, which is a glossy paper made for photographs, as I also felt this would be more aesthetically pleasing.

Experimentation

The first thing I did for my photobook, was that I deleted each photo, so that I could start with a blank slate.

Then, I started experimenting with the layout of my images.

Next, I started experimenting with whether I would like my images to be full bleed, or not.

I also experimented with double page spreads.

I also experimented with having a three quarter page spread for a specific photo, because the main viewpoint in the image, which was the subjects, were sat in the gutter, which is not aesthetically pleasing, or what I wanted.

I also experimented with the differing the layout of some of my images and having some of my images with a similar layout.

At the back of my photobook I am also going to include my essay, which I have written based on this study.

Experimenting with Front Cover, Back Cover and Title

First, I experimented with having a single front cover and a different single back cover.

However, I didn’t really like this and I thought a double page spread for my front and back cover would work a lot better, so I started experimenting with the different images I could use.

I liked this image, but it didn’t work well as a double page spread, because the main viewpoint of the image is on the spine of the book.

I liked this photo as a double page spread, but thought the front cover may be too boring on it’s own.

The final image above is the one I have chosen to use, because it works well as a double page spread, and the front cover of the book has the main viewpoint on it, so it isn’t so boring.

Once I was happy with the front and back cover image I could start experimenting with my title.

Some title options:

• Girlhood
• My Girlhood
• Girl
• The Girlhood

Once I had decided on Girlhood as my title I could start experimenting with the font, size and colour.

The tools were on the right hand side of the screen and the options were to change the size, opacity, colour and font.

First, I experimented with the placement of my title.

Then, I experimented with the colour of my writing, because depending on my placement the writing couldn’t be seen that well. If my writing was placed at the top of the page black text was better, but if the text was at the bottom of the page the white writing was better.

Next, I started experimenting with coloured writing, but ultimately decided on white text.

Next, I experimented with the size of the text.

Finally, I experimented with the font and decided on Ariel Rounded MT bold.

Now, I think the title and my name is too bright with the white ink, so I decided to experiment with the opacity. I set all my writing opacity to 70%.

Next, I needed to add my title and name to the spine of my book.

I had to position my title and name where I did on the spine, so that the writing could be seen.

The sky in the centre of my image was too bright, due to shooting facing the sun, so I had to go back into develop mode and select the tool on the very right at the top.

Then, I had to select the sky and lower the highlights and exposure, so the sky was less bright and had some more blue in it.

Adding my Essay

Next, I had to copy and paste my essay in. I used the same font as I used for my title and I had the size on 8pt. My subtitles however are on 10pt and my title is on 17pt.

Then, I had to import the photographs I have used in my essay onto my book in the correct place.

Final Layout