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Exhibition Review

Kieran Connor

HND2C

23-30th May

HND2

Theatre Royal, Glasgow

How does the poster advertise the exhibition?

The poster is a vibrant fashion image which is perfect for drawing people in and attracting attention with its strong colours and shapes. The image is of a very high quality which shows people what to expect. The poster has all of the relevant information that is needed such as name, date and location.

What is the suitability of the exhibition space? what is the layout?

The gallery space suits the exhibition well as it was lots of room in a circle meaning people can walk right around to work their way through it. The portrait format images are on a different floor to the landscape Images which I feel is a good way of separating the different images. The layout is two boards attached to each other and repeated around the circular floor.

The work was mounted with a screw at each side of the frame. This is the same with all of the images. I like this because it keeps it consistent and looks a lot cleaner than if different frames were mounted differently.

The work is Made by The HND Second year students at City of Glasgow College.

The audience is family, friends, fellow students, photographer guests and people that are attending the theatre.

It makes me feel happy and glad to be part of such a successful exhibition showing a very high standard of work in a lot of different genres of photography.

No titles were used in this exhibition just the photographers name was displayed so imagination would need to be used.

I would describe the exhibition to someone by saying that is a exhibition showcasing the work of HND2 students showing a very high standard of work.

Because there was no description or title shown with the photos it really allowed me to use my imagination and let me decide what I think is going on in the images.

The photos were on sale for £130 with a frame and £90 for the print.

The prints are for sale to anyone that is interested.

Business cards of the photographers were left on a table for people to pick up.

The exhibition was organised by HND2 in different groups and by the lecturers.

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My final image for Face project on a TIME magazine layout from the collaboration event with graphics students.

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Block One Evaluation

Block one had a lot of projects and was very busy. I really enjoyed This I liked always being busy working on a lot of varied projects. a lot of the projects I had never done before such as fashion. The front cover brief ended up being my favourite project. I was really happy with how it turned out for my first time shooting fashion. It made me more interested in fashion and I am looking forward to he fashion projects coming up in block two. The variety of projects in this block introduced me to a lot of new skills and techniques. I have really enjoyed the guest speakers that have came in to do talks. I particularly enjoyed Andy Buchanan's talk as it made me interested in his type of photography. Te chance to have a one to one with him after I shot the brief that he launched was really good as he gave me really valuable advice and comments on my work.

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For my black and white conversion I desaturated the image then adjusted the curves to add contracts and the black areas then dodged the person to bring him out more.

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Before and after colour grading. I made adjustments to the hue and saturation. I also made some curves adjustments and doing and burning to make the colours very different.

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I found the wait for it project really interesting and I enjoyed shooting it. I found nice light under a bridge so I waited for around 20 minutes to see what I could get. someone passed by with a bike I took the photo as he was walking up the stairs which created a really nice shadow. I cropped the Image to square format which makes it interesting as only the wheel of the bike is showing but the full shadow. every now and then the light would change and I would have to wait for it to change back.

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I shot my wide aperture image in the Botanic Gardens. The background and foreground are out of focus with the use of a shallow depth of field and the cactus in the middle is completely in focus. I like this image because when first looked at it takes a couple of seconds to work out what is is.

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I really enjoyed the rush hour project. It was a good opportunity to spend a lot of time in the streets photographing different kinds of people. I explored movement a lot during this project. For my final set of 6 images the theme is that it starts off busy with lots of people and movement and it gradually gets quieter. using movement helps show the rush.