Outsiders cover #2

Cover 2

This cover uses plenty of colour and still doesnt give away any part of the stories. Ive taken an image and changed the colour and added extra leaves leaving the tree, I liked this image as I felt the leaves leaving the tree symbolise sadness and emptiness relating to the story itself. Using the Puffin template the cover comes across as a bright story which may attract the target audience of the younger generation. although I am pleased with the outcome of this cover I prefer the forst cover overall.

The Outsiders Book cover

     Using photoshop I created a book cover for the Puffin story The Outsiders by S.E Hinton.
  I've gone with a colour scheme of black, white, grey and orange, Ive chosen these colours because I was planning to use just black and white to back up the darkness of the story but felt the use of a bold colour made it stand out. Still using the Puffin layout I placed an image I had taken which used no faces or characters just simply using an image that gives nothing away about the story, yet it gives off indication it is not a light hearted story. Im pleased with the outcome of my first cover if I were to change it I wouldnt use a photo image for the cover.

     

 
Book - The Outsiders

These are some of the covers for the book version of 'The Outsiders' the top image is my favourite of the covers, In my opinion using silohuettes  instead of characters and their faces gives out more mystery and also the dark element to this story. The other covers are good but Im not too keen on the drawn kind or showing the gang as characters because myself when reading a book I like to imagine the characters myself, with the book with characters on already it gives you the image of them already. For my book cover I think I will take inspiration from the top cover as its clever and doesnt give too much away to the reader.

Evaluation ED2 Assignment one (book of face)

                                                          Evaluation - Book of face

 

   

 For the final image Produced I used a Pentax K1000, we went into Alexandra park and took photos on the way, the image I edited for my final was of Kate Carter, as we were walking and talking I was just taking photos of her and was pleased with some of the outcoming photos.

 

 After shooting in the park as a pair myself and Kate developed the film and then went into the dark room, we tried out our images on test strips to set the perfect times for a c

lear image, we felt the need to do this because we didnt know how well the image would come out,

others had come out completely black for example. in the end we realised if we set the light timer to 5 seconds we were recieving the best result in that time, so for our finals we decided to expose the image and light for this amount of time and as a result we got the quality of image we were aiming for. once we had exposed the light and images onto photo paper we placed the image in the fix and wash and then later went onto put them throught the dryer.

The image I chose for my final image I chose because of how clear and crisp the image was I loved it. the project was to have self portraiting images but unfortunately my self portraiting images were lost so I just went along and used one of Kate that we had taken.

 

I scanned in the images and put them into photoshop for the next stage toward the final edit, when researching into photographers before I'd noticed some of the black and white images I saw had a colourful tint to them especially the work of Adeline Mae it gave a different kind of look so when editing I placed a soft purple/pink filter in the image which gave it a different look tojust block black and white. I was pleased with the final edit, how crisp and clear it was and also the colour.

 

 

 

- Our Negative strips

ED2 Assignment one

 

                What if, dont spend forever thinking 'what if ' what's the worst that could happen?
                  You never know what you are going to get out of life but that's half the fun. xo

Melania Brescia

 Melania Brescia

 "A Breath of fresh air with her highly intimate work full of life and emotion."

From Malaga, Spain this 20 year old creates such outstanding pieces of work.

When researching into her work she has lots of magazine work been and coming her way.




   
 
 after researching as much as i could I couldnt find much information on this  Young Photographer which frustrated me! Her work is so unique and inspiring hopefully more of her work will be discovered.

                                                                                   

Vivian Maier

 
 Vivian Maier

 (Feb 1st 1926 - April 21st 2009)
 "A free spirit but also a proud soul"

Simply a Nanny in New York Vivian Maier's photographic work was discovered in 2007 when a box of negatives were auctioned off, negative images taken by Vivian throughout her lifetime, images of herself, the children she looked after and stunning images of the city she lived in.
Secretly stashing these images throughout her life these images all show you how she saw things, when researching there was an image with the caption "Just because it's there" which shows the understanding of her photos, they are what she saw, just because it was there, its almost like you can see the process, like she would see an image and have to snap it. Her work all black and white shows old school NYC how you would imagine it to be. When Vivian Maier passed she left a body of work leaving over 100,000 negative images. "Someone who was intensely guarded and private" This wonder to photography now has exhibitions, events a book and even a film behind her.
I myself love her photographs, so individual, creative and special. I love the way she wasnt even doing it as her job, as she was a nanny it was just her hobby, In my opinion her story and her images are simply amazing.