Arrival of my Final Exhibition Standard Prints

Arrival of my Prints

My final 10 Exhibition Standard Prints came through today and I am so pleased with them.  They have turned out so much better than I thought.  I was really worried about the colour of the body movements and thought they came across quite orangey but they actually look perfect.  Above shows the order in which they will be presented, as I want to split the colour up a little throughout the series.  For my Professional Practice I have used my Portfolio Box and therefore am not able to use it for this project.  I have chose to use a Red Box for my prints to sit as this would make them stand out and make the project unique in a way.  The main colour used within my images is the colour Black, so I would like to change that in my presentation.  Below I have placed two images of the Red box for my prints next to my Portfolio box.  Overall I am so happy about how this Major Project has turned out and think that the prints have done my work justice.  They look really professional.  The next thing to think about would be sizes for the Exhibition, I will fully decide a little later but in my mind so far, I envisage two of the images from the series blow up to size A2, so the really stand out, probably one of the coloured red images and the other black.  I would most certainly have black frames, so one should think I would use a black portfolio box, I like to think that it would stand out, make people ask whats inside 'the red one'. 

Finally, this series fits in perfectly with me as a Brand and works perfectly with my style of work.  Considering titles took some time, but 'Pole Motion' keeps it simple yet intriguing.  I think they are almost like beautiful moments captured in a unique way between the still and real time, a space in which we cannot see or belong, but a place, that does exist.  

"Pole Motion" Final - 10

To the few people I have shown the whole series too, which is mainly my family members, they have each said that this is their favourite image out of the whole series.  I can understand why, the move looks so elegant on the pole and theres quite a lot going on.  Her legs are in a strange but beautiful position with pointed toes and her arms are straight out.  But I think the reason why people react to this image is because of the way her arms are extend out above her head in a slightly bent position at the top which make a ever so faint light circle with her hands.  This is the second image with the blue colour top on, and even though it is not as noticeable as the other blue and the two reds, you can still tell that it is not the black top.  I had a comment on this image too which was the fact they liked that the face could be seen slightly too, as well as the shapes and motions.  I think its a nice touch to see part of the face but I did not want the face to be seen too much in the series and it is about the beauty in the motions and and human body form that I have been concentrating on.  

"Pole Motion" Final - 9

This particular image in the series is probably the smallest move on the pole and the move compact and neat.  And that's the main reasons I really like this image.  It is different to the others because it's a move that hasn't got any limbs of movements coming outside the move itself.  I like the way that it forms a diamond shape on the pole.  What I find fascinating with layering images on images, just in a different way, the images has drawn itself on top by exposure, is that if you look at where her feet would be, its actually where her face is as well and it actually gives quite a mysterious feel as if you cant see any part of her, you just the the body and the body shapes and forms.  I would have preferred this image if perhaps the move was slower so that the move itself was a tiny bit sharper.  I quite like the amount of blackness around this images as it really makes it pop out and stand out more, even though it is probably one of the more blurred images out of the set. 

"Pole Motion" Final - 8

This is personally one of my favourites in this Motion series.  I particularly like it because of its poise, elegance, use of colour and the tidiness of the move.  The hands in the image have not moved for the whole exposure and give the swirly spin effect and the legs have masked each other both sides and look very symmetrical.  I like the red line that draws attention to the hands and the body position.  An I also like the fact that the move used the whole of the frame and is dead centre. I can see this image being very effective being blown up big as it is one of the most symmetrical out of the series.  The lines of motion are visible and the beauty of the body movements and position makes it make the exercise seem very elegant. The model is quite low on the pole, and quite close to the bottom but I wouldn't want her to be too much higher because I wouldn't want to risk having the feet too close to the top on a shot like this. 

"Pole Motion" Final - 7

This is one of the other images within this series that I have had comments like "oh that's strange", because the shapes are something that you don't really expect.  For this image you can see how the model is positioned on the pole quite well.  The spinning hands effect is at the bottom and looks like the  sharpest point of this entire image.  I like how there are three triangles visible in the image created by my model's legs in that certain position/move.  Again the black top stops us as a viewer seeing the models body and creates the effect as if we can see through them.  Obviously the light source I am using is high on its stand and out the way and was good for the normal lighting but I do think the underside of her body seems quite dark as if its not getting enough light from the main light source, maybe I should have made this image a couple of second longer or opened the aperture a bit more, because you can't see the bottom half much apart from the nice hand effect.   

"Pole Motion" Final - 6

This is the first of the Red's to show up in the series so far, and has quite a distinct red line in the middle .  I really like this effect as it draws your attention to the way her body is on the pole.  What I like most about the shapes in this image is that when you look quickly at the shot, you sometimes think or think at first glimpse that the legs are bent in a strange way that doesn't seem right, but then once you've looked at it again, you realise that the way she is bending in a curve on the pole is how the legs are in a curve like that, only at that point it makes sense.  One viewer who I asked an opinion from said to me It would have looked better if the bottoms of the clothing were red too, this quite annoyed me only because my model actually had the matching bottoms with her at the photoshoot, but we just got too into trying all these different moves that they were not worn.  But I do think if the colour blue images have black bottoms then these red colour images should have the black bottoms too, too keep the the same.  

"Pole Motion" Final - 5

When I was receiving feedback from friends and family about what they thought about the images and the project, quite a few of them mentioned this image quite a lot and said how very strange it is.  Some couldn't work out how she was on the pole for one.  And this is the kind of response I want from the images, I know that to someone who has not seen thing like it before, would question as to either, how its done of how is she on the pole.  What I also like about this image is how you actually don't really see my models face at all, this helps out in the wondering how she is on the pole. The black vest top again, covers her body from being seen therefore creates a space that could be considered lost or transparent.  What I like most about the image is the shape's of her form, it's so different to what were were expecting to see.  I like the straight arms at the sides of the frame because it makes the shape into a bowl.  Her legs are all crossed over each other and should make the viewer think.  The fact that the whole move used the whole frame space is good for viewing purposes.