Final 3 Images Photoshoped

I took my final 3 images and placed them into photoshop to ensure anything that didn't look right was changed. I have then printed these images out onto a4 to see if everything's ok. I can improve these further.

Selecting and Editing Process

After going through all my imagery, I picked around 10-15 images from each shoot. I then narrowed this down further by choosing 1 out of 2 images.

I then took these images into photoshop individually and worked on them.

Then I printed these out and put them up on a wall. I arranged them into groups which I thought would work. I moved these around, and often changed images into different groups.

I was originally aiming for 4 or 6 images, however I found that this was not possible. I found 3 images were working best together. They are all strong individually, yet look really good together and all involved some written text to imply a message, however can be read differently by different members of the audience:



For me there were two obvious routes: 1- the fairground vibe, 2- the old dingy imagery, and I decided that for this project, the dingy, dismal side would work better as it communicated my feelings better about British society, and allowed it to be up for more readings and scrutiny.

Catalogue portrait photo shoot

Framing

Following the crit I decided to consider framing within my work.

This is something which came up in several discussions throughout the day.

Here I have used the same images in different frames and looked to see if using a border would improve the image or not. I think no border makes this image looks better as it doesn't distract the viewer.

Crit 26th April 2010

My work didn't get discussed during the crit on Monday, however I set up some images in the studio to experiment with size, and wether a variety of sizes would work together for the exhibition.

Preparation for Crit: Monday 26th April 2010

In preparation for the crit on Monday the 26th April, I am trying to use the imagery I have collected over the past couple of months. I have decided to see what one of the images from Cleethorpes would look like if printed out at different sizes:

Being printed in the dungeon at size A1

On the wall in the studio.

I had this image printed out twice at A1 onto both matt and satin paper to see which one would look better. It seems that satin looks better as its cheesier, and more cliche.

I tried printing these images out at A4 and at 4x6 to see what they would look like. The 4x6 is the standard postcard size which I have used in the past.

As I am currently pre tutorial, I am trying to keep as many avenues open as possible, and one of those is to carry on producing postcards.

As a reaction to the last crit, I sent off postcards and recieved some replies. I was questioned as to why I had framed the last set of postcards the way I did. I have decided to alter the framing, by putting one postcard in a 'double sided' glass frame. This is only a mock up, produced by using two old frames and both pieces of glass in one of the frames. It is highly unstable, however if it proved successful then I could produce my own frames to hang from the ceiling securely.

The question was raised in the last crit as to why they needed framing at all, however at this stage I am unable to see how I can set them out in the exhibition without framing them.

2nd Postcard Mission

I sent off 35 postcards, and left another 20 in and around Leeds for people to discover and send back.

Of these, I recieved 8 back which I believe to be a fairly good return rate.



I purchased around 100 postcards from eBay and will use these as part of my next post out.

I want to ask people the same question, 'which social class do you think your in', and also on some of them to reminisce about a British seaside holiday they have had. I have posted out 50, and left another 50 in places accross Leeds, and Blackpool and Cleethorpes. We will have to wait and see how many I get back.

Posting the cards off

Placing them around college for people to take, fill in and send back.