Sewing and Painting images

For a mini task we had to sew into some images and paint on to them as well. We started off by sewing into a picture of Elvis, before going on to another picture of him and painting on to it. The sewing went quite well as someone told me it reminded them of guitar strings which Elvis played, the painting was just a little bit random as I simply just painted all over in different colours. The sewing one I thought was better mainly because I had no real problems with it whereas when we did this last year I did. The painting image wasn't that bad but I do have different ideas what I could of done instead, which include different colours and different patterns on the image which would cover the entire page. I then began sewing into one of my own images this mages was a Russian badge so I decided for this I would sew a Russian flag into the image above the badge, doing this was actually quite easy and it did turn out quite well.

Overall I would say that it went well but at times I did get a little frustrated with it but the images came out really well despite this happening.

Initial ideas

Souvenirs
Holidays - Foreign holidays not UK or Ireland
Mixture of Eastern and Western
Wide range of choices.

Introduction

This project is all about creating postcards; the main theme of this project is souvenirs. The main aim of this assignment is to produce 10 postcard sized images on the theme of souvenirs the images have to be 148mm x 105mm. The souvenirs could be our own or other peoples that they have collected over time, they may also be real or fictitious. We will have like most other projects, six weeks to complete it. For this project other than souvenirs it is completely our choice what we base it around and this should prove to be quite enjoyable to do.

Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment)

The DSE is about regulations when using a computer and other similar devices it advises you about how it the correct way to use these as in when you are sitting a computer to avoid back strain and eye strain and also with laptops as well to also help to avoid eye strain on these.  It also gives advice on how the keyboard should be positioned, how the work surface should be, the space requirement, lighting. Other things it mentions are reflections and glare, noise, humidity and computer/user interface. These would also be very important to photographers as they will have use a computer a lot due to editing photos and sending them of to the right people who need the photos. This is of the three, the computer, work health and safety and COSHH is probably one of the more important because as photographers we will be using screens like this a lot of the time even when we aren't editing photos.

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) is statutory instrument of the United Kingdom that states general requirements on employers on how to protect employees and other people from hazards of substances used at work by risk assessment. This could be considered quite vital in photography due to the chemicals used in the dark room, so we will need to know about this if we are employed in a place that uses these chemicals or if we employ someone and we use chemicals in the place of work.

Even if it is just at home where we use dark room chemicals or at college this information will be vital when using a dark room or even just simply in there so we know what precautions need to be taken when in there.

Health and Safety at Work Act

The Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974 is an act that defines the duties for employees, employers, contractors, suppliers of goods and substances for use at work. It is the primary piece of legislation that covers occupational health and safety in the Great Britain. Companies will employ a health and safety executive and their job is to enforce the act. The act is also to try and make work a safe environment and to protect others from risks, it also tries to prevent the unlawful acquisition, possession and use of dangerous substances. These will be vital as we are likely to be working with items that would require us to follow these regulations such as lighting in studios which of course can be very dangerous.

Caravan Gallery

 The Caravan Gallery is a company that make postcards for different places, their postcards tend to take photos of the unconventional areas of the place they are

creating postcards for. These three postcards all feature places that wouldn't usually feature on postcards. Take the postcard for Scotland, it talks about Sunny Scotland and all of the pictures are of tanning salons which I think is actually quite funny as it means that the country itself isn't sunny enough to get you a tan, so go to a salon instead. They all are quite funny not just these three, by the way they show images of unconventional places in the area.