Initial ideals

When I first heard that I would have to make postcards I came to the conclusion that I would have to take landscape images. However this turned out to just be the final image format and souvenirs was the real theme. The tourist shops in cities like London came to mind straight away. As the true meaning of souvenirs and examples of postcards were shown I saw images that used block colours in specific places of the image. I wonder if I can use block colours to excite portraits. 

That actually makes me think of Warhol's Marilyn Monroe images using consistancy and defined colour to define the image. An illustrator names Luke Weller recently came to give a talk and explained how he uses mono printing to give a rustic and rough look to what would have been a boring block colour. Maybe this is something that I could look into. 

I feel that still life would be too easy to achieve because the objects and the lighting is fully adjustable however controlling a model is a lot harder especially if I am working alone because I have to get the model right and adjust the lighting to match that position all myself. I find this challenging and that's why I enjoy taking fashion and organised portraits. Initial thoughts lead to taking black and white film photographs and then using prints, ink, paint etc to manipulate the image. This could possible change the whole image entirely. 

The shaded areas are there to show the use of colour or manipulation. Possible shapes and different uses/positions of the colours.

Introduction

The end result of this project will be 10 postcards. The subject will be based on the theme of souvenirs which is defined as a thing kept by someone to remind them of a person, place or event. Postcards are very personal pieces because of their size. They only allow one or two people to view it at a time which gives it a different way of perceiving the message of the image. However if your image is against a wall with several other pieces of work, it needs to stand out a catch the audiences attention. 

A souvenir can also be text. It might be something that was said or written that was recorded and used by the practitioner. 

I really want my images to stand out against other images so I will have to experiment with techniques that I have never used before which might include safety precautions that I haven't had to consider before.