'Nother Exhibition.

So, these are my final prints up on the walls of Eldon, and they will remain there for the next year, so anyone in Portsmouth is free to go look.

I'm quite proud of myself, and at least this is an indication that I passed, as I can think of one person whose work wasn't 'allowed' to be put up, it doesn't even look like they left her a space, so it isn't as though she just didn't turn up.

Blap, finished.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

So, I had a tutorial this morning, and changed a few things, my idea seemed to go down well enough so I was happy enough to make a few adjustments and it's not like they took long.
I also finally found a good quality copy of the advert that I was going to use, which is a relief because I'm printing now and the scanned version just wasn't coming up well at all, no one mentioned it in the tutorial, but it was something I was unhappy with anyway.
These are my final images, no more adjustments needed, with just a small amount of my RDB and mounting left to do and an easy target of Monday to get it all done by, I feel pretty good.

272.

Check out this sweet panoramic of my room.

I finally have my programme working again, it was a bit shakey with CS5 and a grew impatient. Really, it was only shakey because I was doing about a million things at once whilst trying to do that, but I made it using my other programme instead.
I can't wait to be done with my University work so I can finally play around with CS5, it seems a bit more stable than CS4 so far, but I've still got the two of them.

Moon and I went to Brighton yesterday for a walk round and a bit of relaxation time before he dives into the exam period, I'm so glad we did this. Feels like the first bit of actual 'couple time' that we've had in a while, everything was getting a bit stressful, I feel much better now.
The seagulls in Brighton are nuclear.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

I'm off to print out my final spread in a bit, I feel so anxious that it's not really what the course wants, I mean it's about body-image, but it didn't need to be, and even though it's the first time I've used the studio properly on my own, it's not particularly adventurous. I have a tutorial tomorrow, and that makes me very sad, it's less than a week until the deadline and if they don't like it and even if I only get 40%, I still have to put it in the exhibition, like a twat.

Reworked font colour.

..and size.
These details are of so little importance to both me and whoever is looking at this, that it almost seems pointless. Essentially, these three JPGs are the same as the ones below, but, I do think these look a bit better and hopefully it is something that Daniel will pick up on, especially as I'll be using black foam board rather than the oddly specified white.
Let it be noted I've tried to use as true fonts as possible as well.
I think this could be my final work. To the printers - on Tuesday.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

I have been left almost completely alone this evening, and after I finished up this (a task which took me the duration of Eastenders), rather than spend my time wisely working on my RDB, I was on the phone.
First to my Gran for nearly an hour, and then to my sister for two hours, ridiculous. However, I have had quite a busy day, so apart from the InDesign tweaking I probably wouldn't have been bothered to do much else anyway. It does bother me that I will still have the same pile of RDB work to do over the weekend, but if it's going to be as wet and rainy as they say - fingers crossed not for Monday - then I may as well make use of less distracting time indoors.

The band pitch went well, but I didn't get it, I think I've learnt from it though, hey ho.
I need to learn to think a bit more and worry a bit less.

All spreads, 1st draft.

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So these are my final draft spreads, with all the answers put in and without placeholder text, it feels good to have the basic elements finished but there are some finishing touches to be made before I'll feel confident enough to hand these in.
I may even change the advert yet, too and I'm not sure about the red, but going with the same colour throughout isn't something I've seen Company do in an article of this kind, yet.

In other news, the date of pitching to a band is looming, as in, it's tomorrow, I am seriously considering throwing it, it's making me so nervous. I don't really know what they want, I have no experience and the only reason I'm even going for it is so I can get some. My only ideas are already done, basic, band photography, although, maybe any band that doesn't really go in this direction, particularly as a new band starting out, I'm not sure how much of a chance they would have. ARGH, all that aside, it's driving me mad, whether I'm a competent photographer, or not.

First page draft.

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This is the first page of the final brief article, I've added in the text and changed around some font colours.
Eep, now this is almost done I'm going to have to start the other parts of the article...

Men.

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So, this is the first page, I've decided on Company, as I was going to do Cosmopolitan but it's for a wider age range and Company is more aimed at 18-24, exactly the age group of my models. While they don't do shoots like this all the time, I actually basically saw my article in this months issue - minus the photos, I'm so annoyed because if I use it in research it will look like I've copied them even though I've had this planned since February. I guess I will have to use it anyway.
I think if I keep going I should manage to finish by the end of the week, it wasn't as hard as I thought to edit Sam's face to be less over-exposed, it still is, but it's not so bad, and hopefully it won't be as obvious when printed out either - which I guess is the point.
Will keep posted as I progress, I hope this is ok.

Just printed this out and the original photo might look better; they all look so white, I think I'll need a professional opinion tomorrow.....
This is the original photo:


* Will be using Garamond typeface eventually, only just realised it's Times in the bulk text, dammit, just when I took so long to select the fonts for other areas(!!!)

Andrew Moon.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

Some images from this morning's reshoot for The Body magazine project.

Sam Soh.

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Some images from this morning's reshoot for The Body magazine project.

Photoshopping faces.

Because it appears to be too much hassle to arrange another shoot at this time, and I have very little time to edit everything anyway. Urgh, this hasn't worked out too badly though, and luckily I don't have to do it for anyone else.

Men being men.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

"I'll have to be honest and say I'm a bit of breast man!"
The shoot today went quite well, I have a feeling that my final images are within what I took today, I just need to tweak some of them. It was a lot easier than I expected, but boiling hot. I think I took enough time, I just hope that it wasn't too boring for my models really, they did a good job anyway.

My mind has been going 10 to the dozen today, I think it's thanks to a good breakfast.
My dissertation proposal is been looked upon in good favour and I've found lots of journals to help me out, I can't wait to start it properly, even if the thought of 10,000 words is unbelievably daunting. Everything to do with university work is whirling round in my head and it feels amazing to be so interested, even in other people's work, today was a great day.