Things have slowed down immensely last week - things like friends visiting and general life got in the way of the book project, and so I just didn't stick to deadlines. But it is a new week - so hopefully this one might go a little better.
Another current concern is my lack of control over my light box/photography medium. Although I've been using this technique to make images for the past couple of years, it is still (and I imagine always will be) much more complicated to control than putting a pencil to paper - especially in terms of colour and the lightness of a completed image. I quite like not being able to completely control the end result of an image, but in a book of sequential images, where the relationship between each is really important - it can become a bit of an issue.
See, for example, some of the images for the "Yellow are feet in the cold white sand" image:
Here I've experimented with a range of camera settings and also with the levels of light/dark, contrast etc. within photoshop. (I always find using photoshop an issue - I would really rather leave the original images as raw as possible, but to get the desired effect, colour, and to ensure the images are readable once printed, it is usually essential).
Also, within this image, I've had to (grudgingly) use photoshop to add in the purple tints (to the necklace and footprints) that just weren't possible just using the light box. For example, an attempt to create purple tints using just the lightbox...
Rather than a bright purple, it unfortunately just looks like dark shadows. Whereas using photoshop...
It is possible to control the purple tinted effect (to an extent). However, through this blog analysis, I still want to make some amendments - firstly, I wish to use one of the more "yellow" images - the one above is too white - and secondly, the purple of the necklace and footprints just do not stand out well enough within the image. These blog posts are proving very helpful!
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