Monochrome Photography (Black & White Photography)
Nhu Tran, u3025370
Introduction
I have always been interested in photography as an art form. All through high school I was doing art, but, it was the boring - draw this bowl of fruit - art. However in Year 10, I chose to pick up some Photography, and love it. How to take photos, how to process it, I even loved all the theory behind it. For the end of semester major art work, we had to create an art piece using photos. We were given the opportunity to use black & white (b&w) or colour film. I chose the b&w, and just love it.
Production Project A Rationale
Format
The project was made on blogger, however, has the utility of a website. Blogposts have the functionality as different pages within a normal for website.
Licensing
There were two types of art forms within this project – videos and images. The images where obtained from Flickr. It was explained in the sidebar that all the images where not mine, and that clicking on the image would transfer the user to the original image on Flickr. The videos were all obtained on YouTube. The videos were placed within the sidebar, which also had a note at the bottom explaining where the videos were from and also how to find the source of the videos where.
Organisation of Site
Each image was placed within a blogpost which was categorised into groups – people, architecture, nature, objects, urban, and animals. Splitting the images into different pages, creates less delay for the user as opposed to a usual blog which has many blogposts within a blog.
Tools
In the home page, a blog was created to imitate a menu. An image from each category was placed in this blog with a rollover image; explaining what the category the image was from. A lot of HTML coding was just to format the whole exhibition, for example, linking posts together and creating the rollover images. Because the exhibition has been made similar to a website, it has a functionality for the user. A user which is not familiar to blogs, would be able to access the exhibition with much more ease.
