Final Images

Final Images

As the brief for this project requires, I must hand in...

• "A series of exhibition quality prints / imagery, presented for exhibition or other appropriate form of installation as part of group show in ‘pop- up’ external gallery venue"
  
  
  I had to choose numerous images which would be printed large and are images which I would be happy to have put up in an exhibition. During this project I have focused very much on the book of Sedgefield Ball Game which I made. This book presented a series of my best images in order from the start of this day to the end, telling the days events. For large exhibition prints I therefore want to select images from the book, 'One Hand Over The Eye'. 
  
  In order to choose my final image, I printed off several images which I personally liked best and felt were the strongest. I took into consideration when choosing the images that they had to be images which were able to work within a series. 
  
  I then laid the images across the table and worked by trying different sequences to see which images worked best as a series. I was looking for an interesting range of subject matter, a series of images which would help give a good idea what the event was about and a series of images which would look balanced and work well along side one another.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   Images such as the police image and the children walking by are both images which I think are strong and I personally really like. However I had to eliminate these from my final selection as the colours and subject matter in particular just did not seem to fit in or flow with the other images I had selected. I felt this was okay however as I know those images feature in the book that I made. So in order to have a strong selection of images ready to be presented in a gallery, I was willing to eliminate any image that may need doing so. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  When choosing my final images the number which I felt would be best suitable would be around 4-5 images. Any more than that would really defeat the object of my book which is a supporting piece of the work, telling the full story. I also felt if I were to use only 2-3 images, that may not be a great enough amount of images to be able to give the viewer an idea of what this event is about. For example, one images of the old man holding his hands up and the image of the men sat on the pavement may come across as rather confusing when in a gallery. My work is all about series, and telling visual stories, so a a very minimal amount of images may not be best to do so. 
  
  
  I wanted to make sure all the images didn't include the same subject matter or scenes. Such as 4 images of people drinking or celebrating or 4 images of all very similar fighting scenes. I wanted to make sure there was a variety within my selection while still making sure the images looked fitting as a collective and didn't look completely odd from one another.  

As can be seen in these image, which is something I like and think works well is the similarities in colours, the images are tied together by the theme of mainly blue and some red through the images. This is why I definitely felt the image of the police was just not suitable in the final selection as when looking at the series on a whole, that image stood out and overpowered the other images far too much, which was definitely a negative thing as I did not want to put the impression across of this event mainly being about police or 'crime' as such. 

Among the selection I have these two images above which single out an individual in each image. There is drama in both images and both men hold there arms in the air. These were definitely two of my strongest images from the book in my opinion and I felt with choosing to use both of these in my 4 image selection created a balance due to the subtle similarities in the images. 

The next two images are again obviously another two images which I deffinately regard as my strongest from the book. The reason I felt these images worked well is because both images include several men, they include the road markings and they include fairly similar colours. These subtle similarities are again a reason why I felt they would work well together in helping to balance the 4 image series. Whats great about these images in a series together is the fact that one is such a dramatic action shot, while the other shows a different side to the game, where the males are taking time out to do the complete opposite. 

The image as a series shows the players, the roughness of the game, the way the players still act as a community and help each other through the game and it shows the onlookers. The drama and excitement of the game is shown in this series and I feel they give an overall general idea of what the day and the game really involves. Obviously I did say it would be hard to give the viewer an idea of what this game is really about just from a few select images as appose to a larger series however I do feel that I have done a good job in doing so. 

To check this selection was the one I have happy with and to give myself a more realistic idea on what the prints would finally look like I used pieces of A3 paper and tried each images with a thick white board as this is how I would hope to present them and this is the size I was aiming to also use. 

Final Framed images

For the hand in of my final major project I had considered placing my images in print sleeves and putting them in a print box. However this is the standard way I have always handed work in, and as the brief asks that the prints i submit for this project to be of an exhibition standard and ready for instillation, I chose to go out and buy frames for my work. 

I got the images printed form Loxley colour lab which was a printing lab recommenced to be by one of my tutors. Other students had used this site prior to myself and had given me really good feed back on the company. The pricing and shipping speed for this site were also amazing in comparison to many other printing labs i've used. I ordered my prints and I was extremely happy with the outcome when they arrived. The quality was of a high standard. 

Because I had decided to place my images in frames, I decided it would be a sensible idea to firstly go and look at frames in the shops and decide what size frame I would want to use and see exactly what was available. When looking at the 12x16 size frames which I had originally had in mind to use, I felt these frame would be too large, as I intended to place my images all side by side, so they would take up quite a lot of room length ways if I were to print too large. I then considered 9x12" size prints however when looking for frames I struggled to really find anything suitable. A4 would deffinately have been too small for what I wanted, so after a lot of debating, I found some frames at 11x14" which I was really happy with. The sizing seemed just right for what I was imagining my prints to look like in their end result. 

I chose to use white frames as I felt they looked best with the white borders I had added to my images. I feel black would of looked to harsh and any kind of wood frame just wouldn't have suited the subject matter of the images. I had considered just mounting the images however I feel these white frames give the images the perfect finishing touch.