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.
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