After sending my book off last week, it thankfully arrived today! I am pleased with the way it has turned out – the only things I am not happy about are the blurry photo of a ship at Felixstowe and slightly stretched looked to the photo of the boat at Burnham. These are not things that can be changed now though so it will just have to be submitted as it is.
This is some of the second half of my book:
I had to change the photos around when I realised that the way Indesign displays the book pages is not the way they will print out and in fact a lot of my double page photos would be cut in half.
I have added captions of where all the photos were taken to make the book look a bit more informative. It also makes it more like a documenting picture book of East Anglia instead of just a bunch of random photos.
These are the pages of my book that I have designed so far:
I placed the first two images together as I feel like they compliment each other quite well – the path and the bottom of the boat look quite similar and both separate the photo in half through the centre. They also have a similar horizon point.
I chose to place some of the photos with more detail in them over a two page spread. This is so it is easier to identify what is in the photo and it also adds more interest to my book.
This is the front cover for my book. I originally had it so though the photo was just in the centre of a white page with the title and my name above it. I then, however, decided that it may be more interesting if the photo covers the entire front page to make my photo book look more book-like. I would like to have the photo running onto the back page as well but need to work out how to do this as they are separate pages on inDesign.
Simon is an award winning British photographer. Simon has made 3 projects that I am particularly interested in: We English; Pierdom and National Property. These are all different landscape projects, involving some similar qualities to what I have been doing.
Something I have noticed about Simon’s work that could be a reason for as to why his photography is so successful is that he takes his landscapes from a height. This gives the photos a much greater visual impact as you can see very far in them, adding a lot more interest.
Here are some of my favourites from the 3 projects:
I love the vastness of all of these photos, the positioning of everything on the beaches and then just simply the landscape in the first photo.
and I had to add this one at the end:
because I have taken one that is fairly similar and could almost be in his photo:
I have found a photographer from Pisa, Italy who is categorised as a New Landscape photographer:
http://newlandscapephotography.com/2016/01/21/luca-moretti/
I like the soft look to Luca’s photos, as though he has turned the contrast down to make the beaches all look really soft and inviting. I am using his work as inspiration as he has taken photos of a beach near where he is from, which is similar to what I have done. He says that “walking is an essential part of the process” of him taking photos, which is also very similar to me as I got into photography just simply from taking photos on walks with my parents.
Here is one of his photos that I particularly like:
I love how lonely the little sailing boat looks in this photo and how the pastel colours of the sand and sky compliment each other.
I feel as though I have definitely taken some inspiration from Luca overall.