At first I
had a hard time figuring out what I wanted the theme to be for this book. I
started out with very broad topics like a travel book or a book about my life.
I then decided that these books would not be able to represent the whole topic
in only 20 pages. After doing some research and looking at many different
photobooks with varying themes I noticed that almost all of the photobooks that
I looked at not only fall under the same theme but the images are all linked together.
I also looked back at some of the articles that we read throughout the course about
making a good and effective photobook. They helped me to realize that the
themes that I had picked were too broad. I looked at one of the images that I
had previously selected for the book about my life and it was an image of the
moon. I then decided that the moon is a big enough part of my life and is
attached to a lot of memories.
2) What resources related to your
concept did you look at before and/or during the production of your photo book?
Describe any library or Internet research you engaged in to assist with the
creative and conceptual production of your final project photo book, and how
this helped you to generate ideas for your project.
The
first research that I did for this book was in my own photo archives. I looked
through all of the photos that I have taken over the course of my life and
pictures of the moon started to become a recurring theme. I started to compile
all of the pictures that I have taken of the moon over the years and these
pictures started to become a good outline for a book. I then started to fill in the missing pieces
with various photos from the internet.
3) Articulate the primary content
of your work. How did your ideas begin (in relation to the above research
questions) and how were they ultimately developed and realized in your final
portfolio?
My
theme developed overtime after changing the theme of my book several times. My
initial book ideas had too broad of topics and had to be narrowed down several
times. After looking through all of my photos I found that the moon is a big
part of my life and I decided to highlight that part of my life and expand it
into a book.
4) How did critique and discussion,
or peer or instructor feedback assist and/or influence the work's development?
I
defiantly was at a few crossroads with the direction I wanted my book to go and
the order and format that I wanted to put my photos in. I think the critique
helped me to get a better idea of what I wanted to do. By getting other peoples
opinions on my book I got to look at it from a new angle, reassess what I was
doing and create a better book.
5) How do you presume those
unfamiliar with your project will interpret your work?
I
think that the moon has a different meaning for everybody. Some people may just
think it is cool or pretty and others may have a story that goes with it. It is
in all of our lives whether we realize it or not and I think that everybody can
appreciate that beauty and mystery of the moon.
6) Provide a formal analysis of one
or more of the images and/or sequences of images in your final photo book,
including a rationale for the aesthetic and conceptual choices made and how/why
these choices were made in terms of your aim for how the photographs would be
read/interpreted. (Consider such things as: type of images selected, size of
image on page/margins, pace and rhythm of book based on sequence, image
manipulation (if applicable), etc.
I
started this book with a bunch of photos of the moon. Many of them were my own
and then I found some on the internet that I felt went well with the other
photos. I wanted to make the book have a chronological feel to it so I made the
photos go from dark to light. This gives the feel of going from night to day.
The moon is out all night and all day whether you can see it or not. I also
wanted to connect the first and last photo in the book somehow so I chose to
use tropical palm tree pictures for each one. The first photo in the book is
very dark but beautiful. The way the light shining from the moon highlights the
palm tree is subtle but effective. You get the tropical/beachy vibe from the
photo without it being too obvious. The final photo is pretty much the opposite
of the first photo. I wanted the “night to day” effect to be prominent. This
photo is more of a bold and less subtle photo which is very obviously
portraying a tropical scenery with the moon more subtly in the background.
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