Further refinements to my mock final outcome

As my chosen stimulus is all about the reductive process, I have been thinking of ways to make this more evident in my final outcome. Also, I thought that my mock final outcome didn't look like one piece together as much as it should have and so I wanted to find a way to bring each photograph together a bit more. As I have printed circles onto the foreground of the photographs, I have tried cutting the outline of a circle into the photographs. This also adds line to the composition which I think is needed as the line work onto the newspaper is very subtle. I have cut this circle out of two photographs to try and create a harmony between the photographs. However this didn't give the effect that I thought it would. I was expecting for it to enhance the reductive process that I have been investigating. Although the incision is sleek and controlled, each cut doesn't completely mirror each other and so it doesn't look very neat. Also, I think that this circular shape is now contrasting the organic marks in the foreground too much, giving the composition a confused mood. Therefore I am not going to do this in my exam.



Continuing with the idea of having larger circles spanning across two photos, I have looked at doing this using printing. I have tried to use different sized prints to create unity across multiple photographs. I experimented using green and yellow paint - colours in which I thought would stand out the most against the colour palette. I thought that the green was going to provide a stark colour against the black and white photograph and contrast the smaller warm circular prints, however it didn't and instead it was submersed b y the darker areas in the photographs and didn't stand out. When I tried doing this with the yellow paint, it was incredibly striking against the photographs and further enhances the positive mood that I am creating in the foreground. I printed the large circles using a plate, whereby I applied yellow acrylic paint to the rim and placed it onto the photograph face down. I am going to use this technique in my final outcome as I think that it successfully provides harmony between the each photograph.