Concertina photobook:
Square formatted images:
Experimenting with square formatted images:
Experimenting with square formatted images was quite interesting as I'd never done it before and deciding which it to crop can be a bit difficult sometimes and deciding where you should focus the detail, but I think they turned out well. And it makes you focus on the photograph a bit more as well, although I don't think I will use square format photography later down the line, maybe some in my Japanese book. The purpose of square formatted photos is supposed to make you look around the images in a circular motion rather than side to side. I've mostly been shooting in landscape and so cropping the photographs from landscape to square can be quite challenging.
Here I dropped the photographs into photoshop and cropped them against the guide lines. The sequencing of the photos are supposed to be like a narrative and it travels from being inside to outside and is a journey and the photos get lighter, which I quite like.
Making the concertina:
What you will need:
- Scalpel
- Cutting mat
- Ruler
- Glue-stick
- Pencil
- Paper + card
Using Photoshop or something similar to drag in the photos I took and cropping them on photoshop according to the ruler guidelines you set, trying to crop where I would best think would suit the square format.
Once printing these photos on A4 landscape, I scored the paper in the middle in between each photograph and I measured where the middle would be roughly. After that I cut down the middle of paper landscape measuring out with the ruler and using the guide on the cutting mat as well. On the top right corner there was a mark for where it should be folded.
You can either uses a glue-stick, PVA, or double sided sticky tape which is the cleanest option or whatever is available, this to join the images together that were cut before. Once that is done you can fold the images and with the score guides helping you keep it as clean as possible.
After this you need to make the cover, so getting a strip of 22cm 11cm card which is slightly bigger that the concertina so that it covers it all. One of the side should be 10.5cm leaving 1cm for the spine and scoring twice to do that and another 10.5cm on the right side to make sure its big enough.
Then either using glue or double sided sticky tape stick it on the right side / back of the card. I stuck the last page to the inner of the card and it should then stand.
Overall I was quite happy with how the concertina turned out although when I was sticking the images on the late/back page I stuck it uneven but its not too noticeable as its not going to be perfect because its the first time I'm making it but if I remake this ill have more knowledge and experience and should hopefully turn out neater but I'm content with the over all presentation.
