FMP WEEK 22 (WC: 26/04/2021)
Although deadlines are approaching, I have naturally found it difficult to keep my motivation levels up as I felt like it was hard to progress my work. I decided to take the images from last week, edit them all using the inspiration of all the work I had previously made in the past and used my technique of just producing a lot of content in one go to make a large range of work to refine. Using Photoshop, Illustrator and other applications like PhotoMosh and PicsArt, I produced a range of imagery which suits the style of my magazine.
The first set of images I had edited were pictures I had taken on a walk around the race course in Brighton. The edits were made on Photoshop using the photoshop blend tools which allow images to bleed into each other and highlight different elements of the design like the hue and colour, brightness and contrast or highlighting the texture and composition. I chose images which included a lot more open space on the page, as I had altered my style to suit a more refined and calm manner than the previous hectic designs, and I used colours to emphasis the atmosphere I was portraying. The use of these abstract colour palettes make the images seem more questionable; they seem as if they’re part of a series now, that they flow together to tell a story of a certain place. The fact that these are edited subtly enough that they are still very clear landscapes but also enough to stay true to my style and the style of Sentient Magazine show that these would be very successful in the magazine.
The images I had taken of myself worked very well initially in the contact sheet, however, I produced a variety of edits but I felt as if they were not of a decent enough quality to not only suit the magazine, but to form enough of a series that the images would be placed within an appropriate context, and not just randomly placed in the magazine. As i was still working on flat plans I was becoming aware of the importance of creating a series of work for the magazine that is made up of several different images that have one original point. However, I found that although these edits were strong individually, I could not produce enough content that would differ from each other. This is potentially due to the images taken, although I was pleased with the variety of poses, they were all from the same angle, position and have the same crop, which has led to me not being able to experiment as much as I would have hoped.
