web gallery

this basic start of my bridge web gallery
i hope to change the styling and maybe switch programs to get more
control over the design ideas
but this simple design does appeal to me and would suit the feel of my website

contact sheets for I carry your heart with mine

here are the preview contact sheets and design ideas for the project to create a set of images to a piece of text
i focused quite a bit on the flowers because i felt they embodied both the ideas of love and nature, the most difficult line to base images around was the "here is the deepest secret nobody knows " I ended up choosing a phone and a unopened letter to suggest secretiveness, i also photographed a locked door to try and be suggestive about whats going on behind it.
Overall i am pleased with the images i produced i think they mix a number of suggestive and concrete ideas in image form which follow the underlining imagery in the text(poem).

I created the background of the website using brushes from the excellent misprinted type 3.0 by Eduardo Recife and just put a an image, logo and changed gradient of the website background to give the look of a website, this the first website design i did but i still wanted something more professional looking.

So i created another website which is nearly how i would like my final website to look like, i just when for a simpler design than my first, neutral tones and a easy navigation. In my final design the image will change on the homepage every 3-4 seconds. i also added the hyperlink logos on the bottom of the page for my facebook, flickr etc

basic design ideas

Here are some of the first ideas for the studio and location shots for the images on text project, Following my research on imagery in poetry i would like to go down the route of doing mostly shots focused on nature (flowers trees etc) but also have other items in there for some of the lines like " here is the deepest secret nobody knows " which could have a lock and key, a telephone call or a door. I would like to try out the idea of shooting at sunset in the magic hour to give a ambient feel to some of the images.

new business card ideas

here is one of my ideas

i have been working

while on my work placement

i took the original photo from the water drops in my kitchen

. I used the ideas i have learnt from the previous lesson on composition and typography to create a more professional looking business card but i feel from the look of this card it is more creative design looking than photographic.

photo from christmas hoilday

Me and Fred at the airport in France
long exposure
canon film 100 ISO, I used my time to test images in low light situations and slower shutters speeds, I am thinking of using some of this techniques in my short photographic project putting images to text.

typography

"Good typography is just as important on a Web page as it is in any other medium. The fact that it appears on a computer screen and not on a piece of paper is immaterial; it should still be pleasing to look at and easy to read.

In every situation where type is used — in publishing, signage, packaging, television, etc. — designers have to adapt their techniques to suit the medium."
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/23/typography/

The font on our website has to suite the style, composition and our all round feel of the website is has to clear but not too plain. Here are some styles i have tried out.

Web Design - Anatomy of a web page

"Good web design has a number of common features which make websites easier and more enjoyable to use.
Knowing what these are will help you understand why you love some sites, and hate others." moodle notes

Here is one website i particularly like and i hope for my finish website in June to look a little like this. Very simple, not to full, easy to understand and quite ascetically pleasing. Any potential clients would not be put off and would have greater confidence in the photographer after visiting this website.

good research websites

For my website i will have to consider many different fonts and layouts, I will use research and development to get my final chosen font type, here are some examples i found quite useful. I really like the plain white font on the red transparent background this look very professional and not to hard to achieve.



this is a collection of homepages I screen grabbed
that I thought had a good sense of colour running though them but all have a very different theme. The Rankin website really catches my eye but is probably more likely to with the amount of money spent on the design of the website (which is what is expected by a international photographer).

Lighting Techniques

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Originally uploaded by themilitaries13

image from a recent shoot for rush hairdressers. Shot using the hasselblad, this gave me a chance to try out different lighting techniques, which i will be using in the text to image short project for the studio section of my final images. This also the first time i linked up my flickr account to show images on this blog, which is saving time and is also increasing my photography views traffic.
I am considering using this for one of my images on my website homepage because like the darkness of the photograph and would be good for contrasting.