I think that I developed my work really well for this brief and I was happy with my final images and how my book turned out in the end. I loved the idea of showing something that the naked eye can't see and that you would only be able to see with a camera. I really enjoyed this project and feel like I showed development through my work and all my different experiments and think my book turned out well.
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Friday, 18 May 2012
Evaluation
I felt that the module directions within photographic communication was a very helpful project to do and probably one of my favorites that we have done through the whole time at university.
I really liked the idea of creating a book and using the images of my choice within it. The main thing I liked about this brief was that we got to pick the subject of what our book would contain, so it would be something we knew we would enjoy doing about. I also found the feedback sessions helpful and I found that I preferred having smaller groups for the feedback sessions because I felt that with having less people, people were more comfortable speaking out in the group and talking to each other about everyones work, helping people with there ideas. I also found the sessions on inDesign very helpful because I had never used it before and felt if we hadn’t had these sessions I would have really struggled to create my book.
This module I feel has also helped me if I ever will want to create my own book again for either personal or professional use. I found this module really good to do and helpful learning how to use inDesign and also enjoyed creating my book and taking the images I needed for it and found the whole module really fun and interesting to do and would really like to do this kind of thing again, there wouldn’t be anything I would have changed about it and found it really enjoyable to do.
I really liked the idea of creating a book and using the images of my choice within it. The main thing I liked about this brief was that we got to pick the subject of what our book would contain, so it would be something we knew we would enjoy doing about. I also found the feedback sessions helpful and I found that I preferred having smaller groups for the feedback sessions because I felt that with having less people, people were more comfortable speaking out in the group and talking to each other about everyones work, helping people with there ideas. I also found the sessions on inDesign very helpful because I had never used it before and felt if we hadn’t had these sessions I would have really struggled to create my book.
This module I feel has also helped me if I ever will want to create my own book again for either personal or professional use. I found this module really good to do and helpful learning how to use inDesign and also enjoyed creating my book and taking the images I needed for it and found the whole module really fun and interesting to do and would really like to do this kind of thing again, there wouldn’t be anything I would have changed about it and found it really enjoyable to do.
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Rationale
For directions within photographic communication we got set a brief to create a book. The book could be about the subject of our choice, so it could be personal to us if we wanted it to. At first I thought that it was a great idea that we could do it about anything we wanted but when I thought about it I found it quite hard to narrow my choices down to one particular thing.
Eventually I narrowed my ideas down to two different ideas one being about architecture and one about shutter speeds. To help me decide which I should choose I took images of both subjects and showed them my fellow peers and teacher, we all decided that my that my images for architecture were good but a lot of people had already done something like that and it wouldn’t be unique enough so I decided on doing the shutter speed images for my book.
Once I had decided that it was shutter speeds I was going to do I decided that I was going to focus on liquids and water in particular. Once I had decided this I started to look at other photographers for my research. The main ones I researched were Harold Edgerton, Mark Mawson and Eadweard Muybridge because they all work a lot with shutter speeds within there work.
I started by taking images of just capturing water and freezing it in action, after that I developed by experimenting with adding food colouring to the water and also dropping different things into the water creating different effects.
When I had got my images I then started to think about what my book that I would be creating would be and look like. I knew from the beginning that I wanted my book to be quite plain so that the focus was completely on my images with no distractions. I had never used inDesign before which was the program we used to create our books so it took me a while to get used to it but I did the best I could with the time I had and learnt quite a lot about it, but I'm going to carry on using it to get more used to it and learn more about it.
I had decided that I wanted my book to be a small square size, I thought that this size would be good and compliment my images within it. So the book wasn’t too plain I added a black boarder around all my pages and page numbers and at the beginning of my book I had a quote from Harold Edgerton, one of the photographers I researched for this project and also a small bit of information which explained about my book, why I decided what to do what I did it about and reasons for having the quote there. I also decided to have a certain kind of paper for my book which was a shiny kind because I felt like this would match my images and go with my book very well.
When deciding on my images that went in the book I picked carefully the ones I put in my book because I wanted the images to flow nicely and not have all different kinds within it, so I picked my favorites which happened to be the ones of dropping objects into different coloured water. These were my favorites because every single one was different and I liked the fact that you could never get the same image twice and that everyone of them would be unique. I then made sure that all my images were the same size depending if they were landscape or portrait, I feel that this made my book look a lot neater and fit in well with the kind of style I wanted for my book, which was very plain clean cut and fully focused on the images.
Through all this project I feel I have shown development with my images and ideas and also shown an understanding of inDesign a program which I have just started to learn about. I felt this project went very well and I enjoyed doing it because it was something that I picked myself and enjoyed doing about.
Eventually I narrowed my ideas down to two different ideas one being about architecture and one about shutter speeds. To help me decide which I should choose I took images of both subjects and showed them my fellow peers and teacher, we all decided that my that my images for architecture were good but a lot of people had already done something like that and it wouldn’t be unique enough so I decided on doing the shutter speed images for my book.
Once I had decided that it was shutter speeds I was going to do I decided that I was going to focus on liquids and water in particular. Once I had decided this I started to look at other photographers for my research. The main ones I researched were Harold Edgerton, Mark Mawson and Eadweard Muybridge because they all work a lot with shutter speeds within there work.
I started by taking images of just capturing water and freezing it in action, after that I developed by experimenting with adding food colouring to the water and also dropping different things into the water creating different effects.
When I had got my images I then started to think about what my book that I would be creating would be and look like. I knew from the beginning that I wanted my book to be quite plain so that the focus was completely on my images with no distractions. I had never used inDesign before which was the program we used to create our books so it took me a while to get used to it but I did the best I could with the time I had and learnt quite a lot about it, but I'm going to carry on using it to get more used to it and learn more about it.
I had decided that I wanted my book to be a small square size, I thought that this size would be good and compliment my images within it. So the book wasn’t too plain I added a black boarder around all my pages and page numbers and at the beginning of my book I had a quote from Harold Edgerton, one of the photographers I researched for this project and also a small bit of information which explained about my book, why I decided what to do what I did it about and reasons for having the quote there. I also decided to have a certain kind of paper for my book which was a shiny kind because I felt like this would match my images and go with my book very well.
When deciding on my images that went in the book I picked carefully the ones I put in my book because I wanted the images to flow nicely and not have all different kinds within it, so I picked my favorites which happened to be the ones of dropping objects into different coloured water. These were my favorites because every single one was different and I liked the fact that you could never get the same image twice and that everyone of them would be unique. I then made sure that all my images were the same size depending if they were landscape or portrait, I feel that this made my book look a lot neater and fit in well with the kind of style I wanted for my book, which was very plain clean cut and fully focused on the images.
Through all this project I feel I have shown development with my images and ideas and also shown an understanding of inDesign a program which I have just started to learn about. I felt this project went very well and I enjoyed doing it because it was something that I picked myself and enjoyed doing about.
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
My Book
For my final book I decided to make it quite plain so that the focus was just on my images and they wasn't any distractions by anything. I've print screened a few pages from my final book so you can see what it looks like.
I really like how my booked turned out and feel like the layout and how its set up compliments my images.
Monday, 14 May 2012
Final images
These are the images I picked to go into my final book. I feel like these were my best images I took and really show what I wanted to put across within my book.
Sunday, 13 May 2012
inDesign
For this project we have been having session on about learning about a program called inDesign. I have never used inDesign before this so found it really helpful to learn about and think that it will defiantly help me in the future if I needed to create any kind of book again.
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Research Book
For this project we were told to look at all types of different books. I did this by going into book shops and looking at all types of different books the texture the way they were set out how much writing was involved in them how the images were set out and the size of the books. A book that I looked at and really like and have myself was Susan Bright's 'Photography Now' book, the setting of how her book is, is how I would like mine to be, quite plain and simple and focused on the images.
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