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Final Images and Printing Process

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These are the images that I have chosen for my final images.

  • Row 1: Objects of Desire
  • Row 2: The Enigma of Time
  • Row 3: The Constructed Image

I chose these images because I feel that they are the four most successful images from each category, and that they all have high impact. I decided to stay away from strict themes this semester to allow myself to experiment widely with different photographic processes and techniques, and avoid repeating images from the same shoot. I think that I have a wide variety of commercial photography, location shooting, studio shooting, night time photography, and two photographic processes (multiple exposure and photomontage) that I have discovered and expanded my skills with during this module. I had never shot multiple exposures before and found this really fun to experiment with. I also found creating digital collages was fun as it takes me back to my studies in Graphic Design, and it felt great to incorporate both my interests into my projects. If I could change one thing it would be that all the images in a set were in the same orientation (e.g all landscape, portrait or square) rather than mixing within a set, however this was beneficial for my images to remove unwanted distractions or white space.

The printing process was quite straightforward as I had remembered what to do from last time. The papers I used were A4 FB Royal Gloss 310gsm which I used for most of my images, as I really liked the glossy appearance and the way it makes the colours really bold and punchy. I also used A4 FB Matt 285gsm for a couple of images; the Blackpool multiple exposure and the long exposure of the river; because the matte finish gave a calm feel to the images and colours, which is already expressed in each image. I tried printing the image of the stars and the ageing flowers onto matte paper, but the results were terrible and unflattering as the colour gamut wasn’t as broad and the blacks were very dark and didn’t mix well with brighter colours. I then printed them onto glossy paper and they were much more effective and closer represented what was on the screen. I was unsure whether to use the image of the stars with a warmer or cooler colour temperate, so I printed both to see how they turned out. The one with warmer, orange tones was full of noise and of low quality, whereas the one with cooler, darker, blue tones was sharper, the stars were more visible and overall looked more impactful. I was advised by Dave that this is because orange is part of the red colour channel, which holds much more noise than the blue colour channel, which is why the level of noise and quality of the image varied so massively. Therefore, I kept the cooler toned image as my final print.

FINAL IMAGES – VISUAL DEVELOPMENT

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Light and Shadow

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I chose these images as my final 4 as they are by far the most effective images. The urban feel from the abandoned bus station and the black and white effect gives the images an interesting and mysterious feel to them, and the desaturation also makes the contrast between the light and shadows stand out. I also think these images have visual impact when you look at them for the above reasons.

 

Everyday Geometry

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The reason I chose the above images for this assignment was because they are the most accurate of the images I have produced; it’s incredibly difficult to get these kind of images 100% perfect, but I feel that these are as close as it gets. I also really like the impact these images have from the bright coloured backgrounds which compliment the colours of the subjects themselves, thanks to using the colour wheel for reference. Biscuits are also a less obvious subject choice than fruit, and I feel that the variety in compositions compliment each other well.

 

Who’s Who

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These images are my final 4 because the concept of “what makes us unique” got me really intrigued and I feel like my results were so successful because of this genuine interest in the concept. I also feel like the extreme close-ups provide a unique perspective to the assignment that other people may not have produced, as it is easy to look at this brief and take a standard, stereotypical “portrait” image of the person’s face and shoulders, and I wanted to produce something more bold and with a deeper meaning. I also think the black and white effect combined with the close-up composition make the images feel very intimate and beautiful to look at.

 

Printing these images was a difficult task to understand at first, but after I got the hang of it I really enjoyed seeing my images printed in a physical copy in front of me. I chose Permajet Matte paper in 285gsm and Royal Gloss in 310gsm to create a professional feeling thickness and quality to the paper, to avoid them being flimsy or low quality. I chose Matte paper for the Light and Shadow images as I felt like avoiding the glare from glossy papers would show up more of the details and shadows in the images more successfully. I then chose the Royal Gloss paper for Everyday Geometry so that the shiny, glossy effect would further make the bright colours stand out and really make them pop, and the same paper type for Who’s Who to give the black and white images an even more luxurious feel and make the intimate details on the subject’s face really stand out. I ensured that each set of 4 images was placed in the exact same place on each page to successfully communicate they are part of a set, and used a slightly different composition for each set to keep them separate from each other. I used a white border around the edges to frame them and make further use of the space on the page.