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Text & Image: Final
Project title: To Whom It May Concern Medium: Box containing 12 postcards
Processes
I did my layout in Photoshop (9 captioned postcards + 3 blank ones) and printed my postcards at Easy Print at Sunshine Plaza. I used 310gsm glossy card, which added a nice effect to my pictures. However, I felt that the glossy paper wasn’t the best of quality Read more →
Printing Process & Final Hardcopy
Hello! So this post will conclude the semester of Text & Image, and it was fun, especially rewarding seeing the final product after everything was printed and bound. So this post will address the printing situation and process while putting the hardcopy photo book together.
I printed my book at Sunshine Plaza, and visited three printing shops Read more →
An Image I Didn't Take
The scene is extremely dark, with nothing but a single shaft of light cutting through the tofu of darkness that is the room. The room is sparse, and mostly taken up by a huge bed in white linens. Following the single shaft of light, we trace the band of light that illuminates my newly adopted kitten, Charlie. She’s black with Read more →
An image that I did not take
The image is a high contrast black and white photograph of a dog turning around to face the camera. The dog takes up the entire frame, with the background details blurred out. The dog seems to be a mongrel, with stout legs and frame, short ears and a short snout. The dog’s fur looks matted and unkempt, with its tail Read more →
That One Photo I Didn't Take
It’s an image of two African men standing in a body of water. The sea level isn’t that high it reaches below their knees. They stood facing 45 degrees away from the camera. The sun seemed to be highlighting their side profile such that their shadows stretched towards the camera. The two men have a buzzed cut and stood in Read more →
An Image I Didn't Take (Somewhat)
It’s midnight. The photo is a landscape-orientation, black and white image, lit solely by the moon in the light-polluted sky, bathing the scene in a smooth glow of light. The hill I stand before is silent… and barren. It envelopes the view in the image, without a single blade of grass to be seen, except at the highest point, where the last tree and accompanying Read more →
An image I didn't take
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The sky was a beautiful gradient of azure to midnight blue. The sun had just set, leaving rosy streaks of orange, yellow, and just a hint of purple right above the horizon. The sea, in its glorious vastness, was a deep prussian blue. The water was rippled, with large white waves in the distance gushing towards the little Read more →