Witley Court
In June we were given the task of photographing a stately home in Worcestershire called Witley Court. We were given a brief which stated we had to photograph the house for a client, in this case it was English Heritage. The brief said that the photographs we took needed to appeal to 20-30 year olds. In retrospect I think this was a harder task than it seemed. I thought about taking pictures through my phone but the photos would be really overexposed, so that wouldn't look nice on a website advertising for this house.
In the editing process I upped the vibrance on all of the photographs to appear more vivid and colourful. I thought that I could crop all of the photos into a square shape to seem like they had been posted on Instagram which all 20-30 year olds are familiar with. I realised that some of my chosen finals would not look right cropped into a square format i.e.- the 4th photo down as it is quite close to the building anyway and if cropped it would cut out half of the columns and would not look as satisfying as it does un-cropped.
In the end I framed the photographs into circles as I thought that it would be more appealing than square cropping and they still relate to social media as Instagram has circle profile photos. It also relates to Impossible Polaroid film that has round frames (see link). I think the main buyer/audience for Polaroid/Instax is young adults. I also edited the photographs by downloading Instagram actions for photoshop, I used the action Valencia on all of the photographs so they work collectively.
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