Exhibition Building Week

I have spent the last week helping my peers build our exhibition. There was a lot of heavy lifting and teamwork, which we all pulled through very well. We spent Monday tidying and bringing the boards up to the exhibition space, from Tuesday to Thursdays we filled, sanded and painted our spaces and by Friday we were measuring the walls and mounting our work. Because of some miscalculations when it came to putting up the board for my monitor I was unable to mount all 4 photography pieces and so I am only displaying the three that relate most to my theme and the outcome I was aiming to achieve with these pieces. I have a few final touches to put on my space during next Monday and I also have to put the workshop space together. However I now feel that my workshop is turning into an interactive piece of art.

Tuesday  - Preparing the space

Wednesday - Fixing the monitor in place

Wednesday - Monitor mounted

Wednesday - Plinth in progress

Wednesday - Plinth fully built

Wednesday - Everything in place

Thursday - Work mounted on foamboard, exhibition space ready to go 

Friday - Photography section measured and work mounted 

Friday - Interactive Piece 1 added to it's plinth

Final Photographs II

I took in the printed versions of the set I had decided on last night and showed Kellie. We went through the images, arranging them in different orders. She spoke to Vicky and they came to the conclusion that the sizes needed to match and the colours needed to be adjusted to fit my theme, and to fix up some of the lines created by the curtains that I had been unable to remove. In response to this I gathered together the inverted images.

Kellie then suggested I go and speak to Shanette (a graphics tutor) about further my skills in using Photoshop  so I would be able to improve the quality of my images. Shanette taught me how to make each image the same and then how to use the Clone Stamp Tool so I could remove the lines.

Kellie and I spoke again and we decided that for my exhibition I would have two of the above images, and two of the images below.

I really struggled with editing the last image as the colour difference where the lines were was so great. I attempted editing the image 5 times but each time it looked too fake. I spoke to Vicky who showed me that there isn't a need to edit the image a few pixels at a time and taught me how to work with the lines and make them work in an abstract way with the rest of the pieces.

Afterwards I spoke to Shernette again and she helped me clear up and neaten the image.

Final Photographs

From the 35 images that were voted best out of my original 110 edits, I have managed to narrow the quantity down to 7 images, one version of each originally edited image. I asked 50 people (from teens to middle ages adults) to selected their favourite version of each of the 5 images selected for each originally edited image. 

However now I must crop this number down to 4 and I have designed my exhibition space to hold 4 A2 final images, and 16 A4 developmental images (the rest of the top 5 versions of each originally edited image). Immediately I chose to removed this image as it doesn't actually show any clear movement of figures.

Next I decided to remove this image as the shape of it does not fit in with the other images and would ruin the design of the exhibition space. 

I was then torn between these two images. The first is more square and the colour of the second would look odd when presented with the three I have decided to keep.

I then cropped the first image in 5 different ways, however each cropped version cuts out part of the energy of the image, which defeats it's purpose. 

Afterwards I looked back over the other colours for the second image to find one that would fit with the three images I am keeping and decided that I wasn't fond of the lines the black curtain had originally made.

Next I decided to change the colour of one of the images I was keeping to that of the second image, and any other that would fit the set.

The first four images I grouped together were these.

However I decided that I preferred the first image in warmer colours and the second in cooler colours, and so my second set was created.

The next thing that bugged me was that the shades of blue in each of the cooler pictures, and as I preferred the tones in the fourth image displayed above, I changed the colours of the other image to create this set. 

I then decided to swap the fourth image of that set to the image that was cropped.

After discussing these sets with my classmates, I decided to swap the colours around some more, and to remove one of the images with a single person in them.