Portfolio Week 5

Portfolio

Week 5


Picking and choosing images for my Portfolio and deciding how to arrange them.

For portfolio this week I did my first lot of test prints and start choosing the images I thought I might like to use for my portfolio. Since starting my shoots I'd been making little collages as a way of trying to make less work for myself at the end.

This collage was one of my first collages I attempted doing. To begin with I thought up the idea of having everything kinda even. I wanted a main one in the middle which I thought would look good as a black and white one. Two portrait images on either side. Two Horse images on the other side of those. I wasn't to sure what I wanted in the next row so those were kinda test images, and then the last two images being the same person and horse so it all kinda looked even.

This collage was a bit of a "I'll just do it to see how it looks" kinda collage lol. I started wondering how it'd look if I had a really big image in the middle which again I decided in the same black and white image as the middle image of the last collage and how that image would look with a whole heap of little ones all around it. Once I'd finished with the collage I decided against it though when I compared it with the images in a line I thought that one and the image line up looked better. 

Later on in the week we made contact sheets with all our images we were considering to use for our project and printed them out into small images so we could start choosing and deciding the images we wanted to use for our project with actual images. This was my 2nd line collage I decided to do with a few different images just to try and see which images looked better together. I decided after this one that that first one I did looked better BUT this one I liked cause it had a lot more different shoots included in it. Again for this one I tried to make the images similar in the same place on both sides, although the last images I wasn't sure on cause one was landscape and the other portrait. 

 

This was my next grouping of images I tried putting together. Caryline helped me with these as I couldn't decide how I wanted my images to be arranged. I kinda came up with an idea of having images like this and showed Caryline, after showing her we started changing images around to try and work out which ones worked best together, we came up with this and I really liked the photo grouping  BUT I wasn't to sure about the gap at the top so we mixed them up again and came up with a different arrangement.

And this was the arrangement we came up with which I really liked, and this was arrangement that made me fully decided I wanted to stick with arrangements more like this than the line ones. I liked both the image's we picked and the arrangement of them in this grouping . So I showed this arrangement to the class and that's when it changed yet again lol. 

When showing the previous image to the class Aroha came up the idea of grouping images so they look more like a sequence. She used the top two images as an example of Coralee's hand is under the chin of both horses and it kinda seems like the same image but taken from two different angles. I thought that sounded really interesting cause I hadn't thought of it so thought I'd see what I could come up with using the same idea over the weekend.  

First Test Prints

This is an image of a test print I took cause my friend in the images wanted to see how the test print looked after being printed on the paper cause she was considering getting a canvas done with the same image. I found these test print very good in terms of how I needed the colours on the images to look for the finals. These specific images I thought looked good in terms of colour etc, the one beside I thought needed the oranges taken down as I though the image looked a bit too orange on the print and the one beside that one I thought needed more contrast for the final print.