Studio practice

 Photo presentation ideas  

Id been thinking about my use of quality within my work and had been thinking about this in relation to display and scale. Throughout my projects I often have two varying aspects of quality in my work, a more hand made, modest approach, this usually occurs in the exploration and process of ideas and a more clean studio approach, this usually comes in the final stages and finishing of a piece. When thinking about presentation of my work for the end of year exhibition this is something I wanted to try lean into. I have clean studio digital images and I also have the black and white film camera photos, these both have very contrasting appearances, my original thought was to just to sequence the digital images and frame them, the film photos already have a more analogue feel to them so to really amplify this I thought of scaling one up really large and just having stuck up on the wall. I really wanted to pursue this idea but was having issues figuring out pixelization, the price to print that large wasn't bad for what it was but still to expensive to make any mistakes. It was suggested that I might be able to get a similar effect but with the opposite scale, making the film images smaller rather than larger. I decided to go for the same black frame for all just for a uniform look, I chose black as I thought it would work well when displayed with the black of the leaf suit. 

Process frame:

Learning how to use the film camera and develop the photos was whole new process that took some time to learn so I thought trying to display this would be an interesting alternative to just displaying the photos. After developing the photos I randomly kept some of the bits from it like the film packaging and test strips, I want to put these in a frame with a photo and its negative. Ill be putting these things onto paper before they go into the frame so I've been thinking of labelling them in handwriting but I'm not sure yet. 

Large frame small photo:

For this frame I want to play with this idea of scale. I took a photo of my leaf tights hung up and when developed it has a found photograph feel to it. I decided to go back across to the dark room and develop this negative in a much smaller size than the 20 by 20 inch frames. I want to purposefully put this photograph in the same size frame as the others, I think the negative space between the photograph and the thin black frame could work quite well at achieving the ideas I want to portray, I think it could almost give the domestic feeling of simply taping a photograph to wall whilst the frame should still give it that finished appearance.

Clean frame :  

I've already made up this frame but hadn't written up the plans before I finished it. This is the frame for the digital images of changing into leaf person, the idea for this one came when I was going through my images with a tutor when four of them came up sequenced in a way that looked good so I just made up a photoshop document to have them printed out that way. Putting them into a photoshop document meant I didn't manually have to cut and stick them down with the correct spacing, which I knew I would find difficult. Despite the matching frames I believe this piece will still contrast well from the other two as the images are not only colour digital images, taken in a completely different setting but also fit the frame in a more traditional sense.