Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Image and word Book One
Hey Everyone, I thought I'd post mine. Instead of "Cultural Lint", I guess this can be my "Family Lint". I come from a family of mainly naval men (and a couple from the army). My family has a tradition to have a 'reflection' sort of day on the anniversary of a family member's death. Recently, we reflected on my grandmother, and it got me thinking about my book. My grandfather fought in WWII and I thought this song kind of went well with the ideas of veterans. This week, I looked up generic pictures and left them black and white to reminiscence on that era, but next week, I will be traveling to their gravesite in Bourne, Ma so I can make this book more personal.
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I like that you are making this version more personal, and I look forward to seeing your next book if you decide to take your own photos of your grandparents' grave site. Images 2 and 5 are your most successful image-text spreads in my opinion. I say this because the text and the image both compliment each other nicely in composition and in conveying content. I like that you made the modern images more timeless by converting them to black and whites. This was a successful and affective new approach to your text.
ReplyDeleteThe image of your first spread doesn't come through all the way. What is going on in the bottom right page on the spread?
Dear Danielle,
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed this book. The message started from personal history, but I think it can be universal.
Some of the text gets lost and I missed a few lines in the upper left hand corner, so you may want to consider different ways to problem solve.
I will talk about type and image relationships more in depth later in a separate post, but in your case, I would give yourself the freedom to explore other layouts (other than the two corners you are using for text.)
Lastly, in thinking about color in photography, think about black and white versus color and how "nostalgia" might have a role in depicting content.
I like your use of photos in this book it gives it a more serious feel which works well with the text. On a technical note the "take me out the the black tell'em I ain't coming back" part gets lost on the page.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting approach for your story, very American and a message of making the ultimate sacrifice. Consider to put a little more contrast into the black and white images to give the images a little more power, and maybe color the flags.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of coloring the flags!
ReplyDeleteCorine, that's a wonderful idea! How can you select a color and make the rest in black and white? I know I can do it in photoshop, but I'm not sure how. My first picture has an image of a U.S. Naval pin. Is it possible for me to post an image into a comment, or do I have to make a new post?
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