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Exhibition has gone to press!

Logo of Adobe Photoshop.

Logo of Adobe Photoshop. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yes, it is true. The files have been passed to Joseph at Big Image Print in Wellington to be printed.

It has been a marathon spent immersed in Adobe Creative Cloud, most particularly in Photoshop and In Design; if I was unfamiliar with the nuances of those two programs before I began this project, I most certainly am familiar with them now! There has to be no faster way to learn something than doing something like this, which takes hours almost every day and is completely immersive in comparison to going on a software course or attending night classes etc – the usual result of weekly courses for me at least has always been that I forget what we did last week and spend half of the new week catching up with that again!Invitations to the exhibition are being mailed out today as well and I will post the exhibition invitation up here in pdf to invite anyone reading here to come along if they are able and see the end result too.

As I type, the wind is howling outside, so fingers crossed that that has all died down to a pleasant breeze by Friday.I am already gestating next year’s projects and travel schedules, which will see me back in Cambodia in July 2014 so if you or your organisation has image needs in SE Asia, please get in touch.

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Exhibition Update

The first two batches of files have gone to the printers now for proofs!

The final batch is in production now and will be with the printers on Monday, along with any adjustments required as a result of viewing the proofs.

The amount of work involved in preparing the images for an exhibition like this is prodigious and easily overlooked by the viewer. I have been fortunate to have the expert Photoshop skills and experience of John Slater of The Photo Workshop (see website here) as my Retoucher to help me make the prints and layouts as good as they need to be. If you need to learn Photoshop, John runs excellent courses – details on his website. Between us, I would say that John and I will have put in at least 100 hours of work in Photoshop and InDesign to get the files ready for printing. On several occasions we have worked late into the night and lost a great deal of sleep. We will both be having a glass of something next week when the final prints are completed, that is for sure.

So my creation is now in the capable hands of Joseph at Big Image Print in Wellington as the next set of hands in the process of bringing the work to life for you to view. Come Opening Day, I will be hoping to sleep at last, although I expect I will find something else to worry about such as whether the wind blowing the work away or something….!

Once the dust has settled from the Kokomai exhibition, I will be producing a limited edition book of colour prints from the work. Details to follow but if you would be interested in getting a copy, please feel free to get in touch below.

Also, if you know of any spaces that might be interested in taking the exhibition after Kokomai has finished, please let me know. [contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"]

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Phew, it’s been a busy time since I returned from being on the road, I can tell you!

I got back and almost immediately had to head into hospital for some surgery which had been on the cards for a while and of course that means you need time to recuperate, which I have been doing. All is well.

On top of that I have had to select the images for the exhibition and prepare them for the printers. This is a bit different from simply pressing ‘print’ and sending the image to your desktop. The colour profiles are more unusual and the file type different too – the large machines used to print onto plastic board use PDF files as the basis for their work rather than normal image files that photographers usually use.

The good news is that the completed files (produced by me in Adobe InDesign and tidied up for printing by my very able web and design lady Cheryl at Cherylistic) will be in the printer’s hands early next week for proofs.

I am also due to be interviewed on Radio New Zealand next week about the trip and the exhibition. Distance is no barrier if you want to listen in – RNZ is streamed on line at www.radionnz.co.nz and the host is Bryan Crump. I believe that the slot will be Tuesday 24th September at 1910 hrs NZ time.

As if all that was not enough to be going on with, I am working on a refresh of the website too! News to come on that.

The exhibition opens on 17th October and runs for 10 days so anyone in NZ who wants to come along would be most welcome. I intend to produce a book from the trip as well, and to place the exhibition images on line once the Kokomai Festival is over so those not able to come and see it in person will at least be able to get a flavour of it.

I will leave you with one of the images that ALMOST made the cut to get in!

 

Jeepney, Manila City

Jeepney, Manila City