1 Maintain the working environment
2 Select presentation method
3 Use materials and equipment
4 Produce final images
5 Prepare and present images for viewing
6 Produce a portfolio of images
1 , With all processes in photography your first thought must be to the health and safety of yourself and others. For myself I wont be printing my images. However if I was my considerations would be as follows.
Printing at home; In doing this you will need be aware of the printer and computer cables, that they are kept safely and not obstructing you or the operation of the hardware and also ensuring that the printer ink levels are sufficient for your prints.
If you were to print them off in photography shop for example Jessops or Boots there would the two normal methods ; the traditional method of leaving your images with them, either being on a digital memory format or on a traditional film. Or in most shops have a self service printing machine where you upload your images direct to it and you get you prints straight away, this method is very popular as it is cheap and quick. By leaving your digital memory card or memory stick with them you then have the advantage of being able to choose a wider choice of print sizes and paper types to use.This of course has it's advantages but would be more expensive and take longer to produce. So your working environment of course would be in the shop itself so care would need to be taken to make sure that no one else obstructs you or touching them machine
2 , The vast array of presentation methods today is quite incredible. The majority of the images we see are on electronic devices on either LCD or LED screens these maybe seen on your phones or images stored to memory sticks which can be then viewed on a computer screen , televisions or digital picture frames or just on your camera's. These then could be hung on a wall and you could have a different image shown every day or every hour ! My daughters hand-held Nintendo DS can even capture images change there appearance and display the in different ways. You can have you picture printed onto T shits , cups , plates , calenders or even jigsaws.
Then there is the more traditional method where you will still work with the digital image you have created but instead of seeing it on a screen you can get the image printed. With this method you have lots of choices to think about, do you just simply take you memory card or stick to your local photographic shop and print off your images onto their photographic paper , this does have it's advantage as I have discovered as after an experiment with my old Epson Stylus Photo 890 that it is only capable of printing picture that are up to 8mp where my images are 12mp. After discovering this I printed some images in Jessops and quickly realised that they were much better. As an alternative you also can upload your images to various websites for example http://www.proamimaging.com/organiseUpload.php within this you have 9 easy steps to follow to ensure you get the best results for your photographs. I have also recently opened a Flickr account...http://www.flickr.com/photos/72074235@N02/
here you can upload your pictures or videos for anyone to see and also view anyone else's and leave comments against them.
I have chosen to present my images for viewing from within my blog , I had wanted to print but unfortunately due to finances being low have not been able to afford too.
We have also through one of our college colleagues been fortunate enough to be invited for each of us on the course to be able to present two of our pictures to be displayed at the Swadlincote Council Buildings. This was possible due to Ian's work for South Derbyshire District Council . The pictures will be be on show for 1 week from the 6th of February. Ian was kind enough to order the materials needed and to order the prints. We have used Wilkinson picture frames at a size of 20in x 16in and with the use of a picture mount our prints were set at 16in x 12in . The pictures were uploaded to a wed based print shop based in Bradford called ProAm which you can see a link to herhttp://www.proamimaging.com/.All of our prints were printed onto lustre photo paper. I chose two pictures of my children as we are able to keep the prints so was keen to be able to show my children my work and to give them some sort of thank you to them for being patient with me during my picture taking of them. By doing this the public visiting the the Council Building will be able to while during their visit to view our pictures. Shown below are some of mine and other colleagues pictures in the process of being put into the frames in readiness to be hung at the Council Buildings.
The last 4 images above actually show the space where the pictures are being displayed within the council offices. I took these on the first day of the display whilst showing my children them , they greatly enjoyed having their pictures on display thinking they were going to be famous.
3.There is ample printers of all sizes available to suit all budgets in the market today, from the neat little Polaroid PoGo printer which can be bought for around £40.00 shown here this doesn't use any ink as the paper releases its colours using it's zero ink technology built into the printer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhcA88tye4M The prints are rather small at only 2" by 3" but produce a very high quality finish on a fairly wide choice of papers that Polariod claim that the will not fade for up to 1000years.
4, To produce my final images I have chosen to upload both themes onto a A3 format created within photoshop. As posted in another blog I then decided to have the Nature theme printed off in a poster style calender in the format of a collage. I had looked at alternatives for example a book as seen below created on the Boots Photo website..http://www.bootsphoto.com/... but it wouldn't let me complete my order as I was only uploading 12 images and not the 30 it required. I'd really liked the look of this book so was quite disappointed at this, perhaps it was me not understanding the instructions but I felt a little let down by this.
5, So I have now received my poster, 30" x 20" or 76cm x 51cm , for my Theme 2 Nature so will take to collage to see , below is a screen grab of it.
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