Final Layout and Image groupings

This is the selection I have chosen for my book, and the order they will appear in. The larger images have their own page, and the smaller sets of photos will be alongside them on the opposing pages

Layout and Image Series Ideas

Following advice from my tutor, Mike, I have decided to print print out all of my potential images in an attempt to sort through them and choose the best ones for my book.

Laying the images out like this has made me realise how many I actually have, and how many are too similar for the book. The first stage was to divide them up into sets that I felt work together.

Within my images there are several groups of images which I see work well together, and could potentially go together on a page in a book; ie. Menus, Sauce bottles, Flags, Portraits, Side views.

Within these sets, some of the images stand out as being particularly strong, and these could work on their own, possibly filling a whole page of a book.

Presentation Research

To help with the presentation process I looked at examples of triptychs and sets of images that work together and compliment one another.

I think that a lot of my images fit together like this, and although they may not be strong enough to be shown on their own, they create a great image when presented together

THAT'S IT!!

The reason my previous post is called 'Final Shoot' is because I feel that, although potentially I have time to find more cafes, my time would be better spent properly editing and choosing the photographs I intend to use, and investigating how they would be best presented. If I take too many images, the project would be extremely difficult to edit and I would end up struggling to choose the best!

Presentation Ideas

There are potentially many ways that I could present my final chosen images. I feel that some of the images work well together as sets, and some are strong enough to stand alone, and this seems to lend itself to a book format. Also, the subject matter fits well into a coffee table type book as it is important that the images are viewed together as a set, and a book seems to suit this the best.

In the case of my image sets, a lot of the images work well in series, or in triptics, so I will edit my photographs down to a manageable amount with this in mind. 

Final Shoot - Two More Cafes

Following the Easter Break, I decided to take a final trip out of Leicester to find some more cafes, and these were the two I found:

This cafe was owned by the gentleman pictured, and as my confidence has grown over the course of the project, I managed to get him to stand outside of his unit for a photograph which is a little bit different to the ones I have been achieving before. However, to be on the safe side I took a photo of him inside too, to fit in with the rest of the portraits I have taken.

The next cafe I found was recommended to me by the first cafe owner, and it was very similar to the others I had found. Due to the position of the unit (next to a busy road in a crowded layby) it was difficult to get some of the images I had intended to, but the lady was very friendly and let me take her photograph without any problems.

I feel that as my confidence with the project has increased I am getting the photos I want as the people I am photographing trust me more as I seem to know what I'm doing! I am pleased with the images I have today, and they go well with the ones I have already taken.

Shoot Six - Three more Cafes

I decided to explore east of Leicester for this shoot, and I came across two static cafes, and a mobile unit.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

Hillside Cafe on the A47 was a great place to photograph. It was full of F1 memorabilia and art works, and the couple who owned and ran it were really friendly. I chatted to them for a while, and as a result was much more confident when it came to asking for their photo. 

 

The next Cafe was also on the A47, and the owner was also more than happy to let me photograph inside and take a portrait. I was chatting to him and two regulars who were having breakfast, and they made me realise it was the right idea to take the project away from the motorways and into smaller cafes; I would never get the photos I have been or meet the characters I have if I hadn't done so.

 

  

  

  

  

The final Cafe I visted that on this shoot was Jakes who again was happy to let me take a few photos. I am really happy with the portrait of Jake, and I think that is the style of portrait I will try and use for the remaining cafes I will visit, rather than the more candid style I have used so far.

This shoot was so much more successful, I feel I have produced some more usable portraits than previous shoots.