Final Images for Magazine

Hand-in deadline tomorrow so had to be strict with myself and crack on. Decided to settle for what I had with the DPS and cover, I think I could have carried on tweaking forever! Editorial page has now been majorly re-vamped. I revisited my original images a week or so ago and had a play with one that I had discarded, didn't like as shot, but really liked when coverted to hi-key B&W. Liked it so much I wanted to use it but when I dropped it into the template with the other images found it didn't really work... had a bit of a dilemma over whether to ditch it, the simple answer, or whether to go B&W with all the others, the complicated one... no prizes for guessing which I opted for! Meant a bit of additional shooting as I thought I may as well go the 'whole hog' if I was going B&W. Took a shot of the ilford film I had processed earlier on in the course and used this to frame the shot of the umbrella (layers) decided I rather liked the grungy effect of the watermarks so purposefully chose the worst affected and left them in. Had some issues with size (image ratios were pre-determined so had to make my film cell fit!) and was a little unsure of the result but feedback was positive so went with it. Also took a shot of the ties (was initially planning to shoot these with a model wearing the hand glasses) as they were black and white anyway and I knew would work as one of the really tiny images. Lots of playing around in Publisher: had issues with matching my greys (where the heck did my eye dropper tool vanish to?) and toyed with the idea of using a texture as a background (was vetoed as 'naff'!) Found a great site for free textures which I shall no doubt find a use for at a later date - working on developing a bank of my own but nice to have access to more. Feel a little disappointed that the image sizes don't really allow me to show them off - they look so much better viewed big! Also feel that this assignment ended being less about picture quality and more about making the images work in relation to each other. Spent a lot of time considering framing but ultimately ditched some of my best images because they didn't work well enough with the others... On the plus side I did it! Was convinced this one was too big for me...