FMP Final Week

Weekend-

Finished editing pics. I had to make sure that the colours and black levels were consistent between all the images. Harder than it looks as the sun was changing a lot when we shot the images.

I decided to order 16”x16” Photorag instead of pearl as the blacks are slightly more compressed and smooth.

Monday-

Ailsa was round my house and she pointed out that the texture on pearl, although nice, may be too shiny for skin- I guess that means I made the right decision!

I picked up my prints and they looked fantastic, on the way I picked up a can of gold spray paint for some framing experiments.

I tested the spray paint on some flowers, it looks great and has a nice sparkly finish so I will use this for my frame. I also tested some scale layouts for my display board in Photoshop- I think I'm going to display my three images in a triangle as that will give a sort of magical, mystical look to them.

Wednesday-

In the morning I gathered some flowers together for the framing and did some test layouts both natural and sprayed with gold. I decided to take both sprayed and natural flowers up with me to Ravensbourne.

When I went up to mount my images I first had a chat with Tom. Tom convinced me to ditch the flowers, saying “People are going to remember you by your flowery frame and not your actual images”. I agreed with him and decided to let the images speak for themselves despite my desire to 'immerse my audience' with extra bits. Perhaps all that's needed to immerse your audience is just solid images rather than 3D spaces or extra objects outside the frame. As I was now not doing the frame we decided to keep the grey square around the circles as it would help define the gold circles rather than having them disappear into the white display board. This also would make the images much easier to cut out!

Tom also suggested that the images of the legs and arm were strong enough by themselves and didn't need the full body shot, he said the full body shot gave away too much and answered too many questions. I also agreed with this.

My prints being fragile, I made sure to stay with them during the mounting and trimming process- luckily everything went to plan. I'm pretty glad I took Tom's advice and kept the images in a square format as it was already pretty hard to cut a clean edge with the Photorag, let alone a perfect circle!

Thursday-

As I ran out of time yesterday I put my pictures up today. It was very hard to align them as they were both perfect squares, your eye notices any slight angle/size difference- I will keep in mind for future that this happens.

From now on I just powered on through until I finished all of the work to hand in! Project complete and a success!