Self Promotion Task

As an experiment I went out into Rotherham so that I could take some photos for self promotional ideas. I found that this was very easy as there is a lot of places that want to self promote so they will put all types of different items on the street such as posters, billboards, leaflets etc. I thought that the bigger and more bright the image/symbol is the more likely you are to get your product noticed by people and potential customers.

This is the contact sheet of my images - 


















 I thought that putting a poster on a wall with lots of other photos is a bad idea as then your item could rather easily be swamped and misplaced by other posters.

Wassink Lundgren Presenting Techniques

Wassink Lundgren had a rather unique way presenting his images as he presented them as a book. He framed them as though you were going through the book page by page in a sequince form start to end. I thought that this was a good idea as no one else had done anything like it so it was really original. I also liked the way that he had the information on the images at the end of the book so that you could look at it and see the information on an image you may have liked and also infomation on Lundgren himself. However I didnt like the way the paper was blue as it kind of drew away some of your focus on the actual image to look at the other half of the book.

Will Sanders Presenting Technique

Will Sanders Image -


I liked the way that Will Sanders presented his work in an almost randomly laid out way.  HIs images were placed without frames and the images went all the way to the edge of the foamboard which I found very interesting and thought looked really good. Also I liked the way that he just had the lights on all of his images instead of spotlights on a few of the images that he had selected. This helped me a lot to understand just how important the light is to an image, as when we first went in there was some images by the door that I thought were placed very badly as you could'nt see the images themselves that well because there wasn't a lot of light on them and when you approached them for a closer look you could mostly see your own shadow instead of the image being presented, also the fact that they were placed near the door and were rather small meant that they could be easily overlooked and go unnoticed by the other much larger images in the gallery with a more open and lighted area.