OMG! and other updates

I have had to retake photographs and redesign a website; the reasons being that my hard drive smoked out on CCB’s Mac last week.

The website i have submitted took five and a half hours to create, and I managed to submit it with my short documentary.

But there are problems.

In a hurry I resized my images (optimised for web) in Lightroom and forgot to add links so that a viewer could return to the home page.

This is not the first time it has happened ( hardrive); in future assignments will be saved to DVD, and have working files on portable hard drives.

Note for tutors: on opening the disk please go to index 2. the website documentary can be found by clicking the documentary tab on the right hand side of the page.

NEW WEBSITE SUBMITTED FOR ASSIGNMENT

all was nearly lost I have had to create this website in less tha 5 hours so i could hand it in and create the gallery.

web forms.

last week ( check date of blog) we had a look at web forms,
here are some samples.

CONTACT SHEET

Logo: Google online logo maker.

Logo: logo made with logo maker
LOGOS.
here are some ideas that I have played with to create a logo. I have posted earlier attempts to create logos using Illustrator and Photoshop. I have recreated a couple of online attempts using Logo-maker and google.
The logo service ( I assume ) is for people without Photoshop or a good DTP program.

Changing horses

Over the last weekend ( 20^th and 21^st February) I have been looking at the photographic element of my project.

I have now spoken to my course leader on scaling down my project; instead I will provide 17 images and create a flash site that displays the images in a fashion.

Reasons for scaling down:

On Saturday I looked at what I had in images related to this project, most of the images although clearly recording interviews with residents on an estate, merely touched the arguments that I raised in my proposed project. The project itself will have to be an on going project with chapters that identify and add an element of visual anthropology to each chapter.

· The project asks for a minimum of 18 images

o I have over 180 images mostly of parts of the estate Hoodies and community projects.

· Interviews: most of the interviews lack consistency I have been asking wide-ranging questions as if writing a report, without focusing on the visual effect of the project.

· I tend to work alone and like the idea of being able to be creative and fluid, the brief that I originally submitted traps me into having to seek second and third opinions. And I also feel a little embarrassed about my own recently realized pre judgments.

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· I have worked in community development at all levels over the last 12 years, I want to have a coherent body of work that I can put online and in a portfolio without having to argue about content. It would also be good to allow myself to be less anecdotal in my assumptions and have a well evidenced (triangulated ethnography) that records my assumptions over a longer period.

Taking photographs for me usually means turning up with a sketch book and making images, If I am speaking to someone with the intention of taking a photograph; the opportunity to photograph as planned diminishes.

What I mean is that I have interviewed people with the intention of having the air their views inside their homes. Their homes are clean, they are welcoming but, the interviews are far too long and revealing I get tired of not being able to steer arguments in the desired format.

So I will name this series of images (Short project): documentary part one

In this documentary will be a series of 17 images that will look at bonding.

To me this is an attempt to develop the basis for future projects or rather, like a book that introduces characters and their peculiarities.

It is also fair to say that I have spent a large amount of my time photographing to develop my commercial portfolio and this has affected the flow or direction of my short assignment because the time I invest is usually surplus time left over.

I have realize that I need time to;

Reflect and rationalize

Discuss images and get opinions on visual content

Read fresh reports

And chill out a bit.

Thinking of changing my project.

1st attempt

Business card for new site: image selection naming gif


dreamweaver new site

saving foe web

Slices and exporting slices

working with image buttons sequence


paint giff for grunge

working on making a background

Greating background for site /below a selection of grunge templates and Photoshop work





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I have been thinking about changing my project. The reasons are simple. I can’t make my images any thing more than an image, just a notion of truthful representation.

We are all used to consuming images so, whatever I submit as my final project will work. what I was trying to say in documentary one will be lost because all I can display is a subject or object and the topic/subjects chosen is contested.

I should have known where this was heading before I decided to do it. I have decided that the project should reflect something about my readers or my own experiences. Because the only thing that divides us is ego and opportunity.

In images I normally can’t see the truth, I see what the photographer is trying to tell me or what i want to see.

an update of images: