TYPE
Finalising an Outcome: Overlaying Text
To finish my 'type' project, I wanted to try inserting type into my photographs rather than take photographs containing type. I began thinking about connotations of type and its meaning. As it is something that makes up so much of our lives I could not pin point a certain topic. Type creates languages, communications, literature. It is the basis of the modern world.To narrow down my topic, I linked back to type used in my artist research. One of my Kernan photoshoots included my own handwriting; something that is very familiar and comforting to me. I wanted to combine my handwriting with something else very familiar and comforting. I chose the topic 'home', because it has connotations of safety, security, happiness and warmth. My original photographs are shown below.
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My two main editing themes were a semi-sepia, tinted orange effect and black and white. The sepia effect was successful in maintaining a calm, relaxed tone to the photos which portrayed the safety and comfort I wanted visible in my photographs. The black and white gave quite a nostalgic tone. It worked well with a grain increase to give an old, sentimental feel.
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After taking my images, I found poems online that related to my title. Please note all of the written work below is extracts of work by Robert Louis Stevenson, Pam Braden, Meggie Gultiano, Wislawa Szymborska, Laura Cullen and Halle Burton. None of it is my own. I wrote the extracts out onto plain or lined paper to keep the familiarity and comfort of my own writing. I inverted some of the images to alter the text colour from black to white. This process can be seen below.
I then combined the text with my original images using Leonardo. This process can be seen below.
My final images can be seen below.
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My second final piece was prints of images from across my type project. I used newspaper and paper mache to add type to the photographs through the newspaper print covering the frames. I really liked these outcomes as they were simplistic. The black and white of the newspaper set the photographs off very nicely. They can be seen below.
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