Creating a book

I chose to create a book for my final outcome however it is slightly different to what I had planned. When starting to create the book I realised that actually the smaller size would be inconvenient as it would not show exactly what I wanted to show. I instead created at 11x8.5inch book that had an open panel at the front. When thinking about design I thought hard about what style to give my book. I created it at Jessops and on the machine. For the pages I kept a simple outlook to ensure I was leaving some subtlety in my images and making the most of the blank spaces. I photographed a light switch for the front page as this begins to give some inclination of what my images were showing however not giving too much away.
I began the book by leaving two black pages at the beginning as before light there was only darkness. I then moved on to the first forms of lighting I looked at, this being a simple torch. The image is quite dark and the light is also quite yellow in style. Then I moved on to natural creations of light, this being the 'fire' aspect of my images, using a lighter and matches to illuminate the face. These images are also quite dark and yellow so the first 3 sit together well. In my experiments I then started looking at artificial lights that are used for other purposes. The fairy lights from the Christmas tree were a great example of how even small lights can illuminate the face and still keep the twinkling style of what they are really used for. I then used a red rope light and I took lots of different pictures with this particular form of lighting. I ended up with choosing the image with the rope wrapped around my face. It shows up my eyes and face however does not give out tons of light, hence why it is closer up than the other images. The coloured disco light used next gives off massive dramatic effect, because of the dark shadow over the face. The glow stick image works much like the red rope image giving the idea of a techno outlook on the image. Finally the UV paint image is slightly more playful however shows how even the small amount of face can illuminate the whole face with the tube.