experiments

1. Experiments
Emily Grace Porter

2. Polaroid Film
My magazines aesthetic is raw and gritty
and is about showing my generation
through people and activities. I thought
that adding some polaroid images would
add some more dynamic and portray the
raw, grittiness that I want. I took some
test shots of one of my models: Robyn
Noble, and I loved that effect of polaroid
images, the edginess of the effect is
exactly what I wanted. I turned it to black
and white to see if I still liked the effect
and I did but I do prefer the coloured
effect as I gets the mood across through
colour.

3. Editing
I knew that with my aesthetic some of my images wouldn't be the best quality because of a
few factors; camera quality, location and aesthetic. Sometimes a blurry image is exactly the
aesthetic and look that fits but I do need to be able to define the images. Therefore I
downloaded lightbox and worked on brightening and refining images. I edited the exposer
very slighting but focused on highlight and defining areas with shadow and editing the
blacks and whites. I also smoothened the image in photoshop.
Before After

4. Pixelate

6. Pixelate
In my magazine I want photography/ the images to be the focal point as it is social
culture magazine. But I want the whole magazine to be a gritty, raw, documentary
photography with an edge. To get this edge I'm going to edit images in multiple
different ways but effects that fit with my aesthetic. One effect I like was pixelating
the eyes on my models. I chose three images of past shoots and tested this idea
on them, I like the outcome but still feel like it needs more, therefore I printed them
out and started drawing on top of each image, just small doodles with a pen to draft
if it works for my magazine or not. Even though the quality isnt the best, I can see
the effct of the writing with this experiment and I do like the idea. The idea behind
the pixelating and the writing/doodles is to show different individuals in generation
Z but take away their identity (through pixelation) and replace with labels, basic
labels that describe one characteristic. This whole effect is to show that our
generation isnt just what we look like or how we're seen, and how we can't be
labled as just one thing, we have many charatistics and you cant judge by
appearance.

7. Writing
My magazine's focal point is the photography, I'm also including some text. These texts may be a
small paragragh or a quote, reminicising over the idea of growing up and the stages between 18-21.
Each piece of text will be different in design and in colour. I wanted to add some text so that the
images arent overwhelmg the magazine and so that the audince don't get bored by only seeing
images, with text it allows the reader to pause and read and he proceed allowing the reader to have
a fresh mind when carrying on looking at images, the text acts like a barriar to slip up the
photography. I tried multiple softwares to see which gave me the effect I wanted. I tried photoshop,
lightPad, and scanning. The ladpad was disapointing because I couldn’t get as used to it as I liked
and my work ended up abit rough. The scanning...... I liked the photoshop effect but my own worry
is that it might not match up with some of the images.