Outcomes
For my project, I will be creating a final photo book to show my final images. As there are many different book designs and paper types, I will be researching and creating final outcomes to find one I want to use.
For the paper types, I have ordered a pack from Mixam which includes:
A6 Guide to paper
A7 Litho swatch book
A7 Digital swatch book
This will allow me to see and feel the different prints and choose one which will best suit my work and photo book.
Concertina
For my first photobook design, I made a concertina book. A concertina booklet is an origami-looking pop-up book. It is called a concertina booklet because the folded structure resembles a concertina, which is an instrument similar to an accordion.
To create one, I had used a template on photoshop, printed the images and followed a tutorial on how to create one. The process wasn't difficult to create, and it created a simple and unique outcome for my images. After creating one with my working images in, I don't consider this as my most favourite outcome for my final photobook but it was worth creating to expand my knowledge on how to create these outcomes.
Japanese Binding
From the late Heian period (794-1185) onwards, another technique, yamato-toji (or techōsō) was used, mostly for manuscripts of Japanese literary works. Folded pages were placed one inside the other forming a booklet or fascicle, and thread was used to sew them together along the fold, and several of these would be joined together.
When planning to make this binding, I had bought a birthday bag with a patter on it which I used for the cover of the photobook and some green thread to do the binding. When making the photobook, I followed a YouTube tutorial on how to create the binding.
My binding
Overall, I enjoyed the process of the binding and it created a good outcome. The only issue I had with it was after I had opened the photobook, the thread became loose when closed, meaning that I would have to have a tighter thread/binding if I create another one.
This photobook is something I will take into consideration but if i did it again, I would want to make it look more professional and not as messy.
Collage/Fragmentation
Fragmentation involves anteriority, decay, and loss in relation to some superseded whole. As excerpts from a world that was, photographs are understandable as fragments, which means that they carry with them an invitation to reflect on and even to reconstruct former environments and totalities.
Typically, Fragmentation involves two images fit to the borders and one is fragmented to create the effect. However I want to create my own interpretation and want to create a sense of meaning for an object to be in the image and for it not to be fit to the borders of the origional image in a collage style of way. Im going to make it after printing my images off and use a scalp and glue to create the outcome.
My Interpretation
Using my working images, I wanted to carry the motif of the wall in my images and when creating the collage/fragmentation piece, i decided to fragment the wall and line it up with the fence in the image and connect them together to create this idea that they are connected, and both are there to serve the same purpose. In doing so, I had created a working image which I would like to experiment with more in my work and to have a mix of collage and my raw images in my final photobook.
Colour correction in Lightroom
