Week #6 – wb 4th April 2022
No tasks this week – prepare for presentation on the project!
This is the last week of the course, so it’s also a chance to reflect, as well as wrapping up the project.
Check-in: where am I up to?
- I did shoots on the following dates:
- 3rd March
- 8th March
- 11th March
- 17th March
- 22nd March
- 27th March
- 28th March
- 29th March
- 30th March
- 31st March
- 2nd April
- Shot over 700 discreet images.
- Selected 62 images and edited them.
- Selected 7 images for my final piece (3 to form a triptych, plus 4 supporting images).
Reflections on my final series of images.
This is kind of important, I guess, What do I think about my final selection of images, the layout, the overall impression?
Firstly, I am proud of the images. I think they’re some of the best I’ve taken in many years of (mostly film) photography. I also think I now have something of a handle on black and white digital processing, and am getting something of the “pop” that I’ve not managed to achieve before.
The images get across the feelings that I was hoping to capture – the quiet, calmness of off-season Days Bay. The quality and variability of the light; the difference that weather makes to the state of the sea, and so on.
My supporting images also gave me a chance to show some of the ephemera of the bay, both things humans have built, and that the sea has deposited. This was also a chance to look at the evolved, weathered aspects of objects too.
Tasks for this week
N/A – this is the week to edit and wrap up the project.
Contact Sheets
N/A – this is the week to edit and wrap up the project.
This week’s best edits
The general editing of my individual images was complete by this point. Instead, I worked on tweaking the images to do things like line up the horizon, and also adjusting the tonal balance between the images so that they work better as a triptych. I wanted a light, calm flow from the left through the sequence to darker, stormier mood at right.
For the secondary images, there were more choices for layout. I’m favouring a vertical layout, but may have a dollar each way and do a kind of up-down-up-down *o*o kind of thing.
