Dispaly

I knew how I wanted to present the images before I even knew what I wanted to shoot.

After seeing Murry Balards work exhibited at Format featival ’14 I knew I wanted my work presented in 3 ways. I wanted:

·      A clear frame (Perspex/acrylic)

·      Printed on metallic paper

·      The images to have a hyper realistic quality (reminiscent of Murry Ballards work)

 

I realized that the work I had and would be producing would benefit greatly from being presented in this fashion. The completely clear frame means the viewer is fully focused on the image with little to no distractions e.g. boarders, wooden edges. The metallic printing enhances the 3-D, hyper realistic effect and gives the image that extra pop. This works even better when coupled with night photography. Finally I for all of this to be worth while I chose to shoot the image in a hyper realistic style. The stillness, sharpness, depth and vividness of images produced in this style are something I am really interested in and at this point in time I am putting a large amount of time, effort and passion into it as I try to continuously improve upon myself.

I ordered my print first. I knew print space where one of the only place in the UK to do metallic prints and I had already used them in the past so I ordered my print from there.

I decide to make the print A0. After much deliberation I decide that bigger was in fact better and I was only going to use one print so I thought might as well order it is as big as possible. This cost around £90.

I decide to only use one print when were told about the exhibition space. We are exhibiting in a local exhibition location called the ‘Brewhouse’. The space covers two floors and with a lot of different boards to hang work on. The distribution of the boards made me realise it would work better if I only use one large image instead of a few small shots. One large image would have more impact.

I then ordered the frame. It took me a while to find the right frame. I wanted the frame to preferably have as fewer connectors to the wall as possible but I imagine the frames with only two connectors are lots of money so I settled for 6 connectors. The size of the frame was the biggest problem but eventually I found an A0 acrylic frame for £111 on Amazon.

Framing/Hanging

The framing of this image was a much nigger job than I thought it would be. It took me an Vinnie almost 2 hours altogether. First of all we had to drill the hole in each consecutive hole on the frame (6 holes, each one had 1mm area of error.) this took about 3 goes. Then we had to fit the image in the frame, this shouldn’t be too hard. Wrong!. I love acrylic but it does have a few weaknesses such as; it is very susceptible to scratching and it almost absorbs dust. Both of these aspects were problems, most prominently the dust. The acrylic was covered in a plastic cover which protects it from scratches and dust but as this plastic is removed the acrylic is charged and becomes static which attracts dust, hair, fluff (basically everything you don’t want on your frame. Luckily print space had given me a pair of print handing gloves so I could wipe off most of the dust but you can remove it all. This is something to thin about if I use acrylic again.

Once I had fitted the image we attached it to the wall and removed the top cover of plastic on the frame. Then to my dismay looking me in the face was a long brown hair. The frame had to be taken down and the fitting process was redone and the images were the once again mounted to the wall. This time minus the hair.

It looked amazing and was defiantly worth 2 hours work.