Arranging, sorting: fitting the jigsaw together.

After editing our photos to enhance sharpness, colour and general appearance, arranging the photos and sorting methodically seemed like the best cause of action for solving the presentation issues that we were presented with. Using the table space around  helped us to develop a vague sense of how the photos may be laid out over the double page spreads of a book.

This was a very time consuming process, however I believe that it was the best way to deal with organising the photographs.  After being spread out, chopped and changed, the photos were the grouped together (rather prettily with shiny bulldog clips) in order to maintain some sort of order to the chaos that was likely with so many different photographs.

You can already see certain links and relationships between the images appearing when they are all placed next to one and other. Colours from other photographs begin to sing when put with others, suggestions of how the photographs might possibly link fashion or the body are provided by the images of hands and icy photographs link across the box images and the form also works beautifully with the crumpled iridescent film.

The next stage will be to start placing the book pages together electronically. After only a few lessons on InDesign, I don't feel ready to start using this to put the book together. It would be more in the interest of time to put the pages together on Photoshop, as my skills are proficient enough to arrange the photographs quickly.

I'm quite excited to see what the book will turn out like, however time is against us. Myself and Beth intend to put the book together as soon as possible, in order to leave enough time for printing. This is providing that our layouts are correct as we will not have any staff contact until our next tutorial time. It seems like the time to start trusting our own judgement and draw upon skills that we know we have. We both have a keen eye for layout and I feel that this will definitely be to our advantage.