Urban Landscape : Curation of Photos

In this post I will be discussing my small editing and filtering of the photos I had taken for Urban Landscaping.

Before all of this, I will first be understanding what curation is and its process/processes and how it is very important in contributing for the final outcome of this and every project I have in the future.

As according to Richman-Abdou (2019), Curating is the process of choosing, arranging and presenting art, objects and things for display and is done by a professional in the manner- a curator. This is done by a curator to "interpret the collection in order to inform, educate and inspire the public" as stated by Richman-Abdou (2019).

With this in mind, I can now interpret that curating is being able to present a piece of artwork that has been refined to fit for a certain target audience and this situation the general public. Here within my photos, I will present them and curate them into my collection "There", with the content focusing on the desolation and plain-liness Leicester has within my eyes and the lens of the camera.

As I have done before, I reviewed my contact sheets that I made from the photos I took from both the practice photography session and the out of campus photography session as well in order to find the best photos within the collection that fits the theme I envision. After picking a select few, I then went into Adobe Photoshop and tweaked some photos if need be.

F3.8, 1/200, ISO200, 6mm

This was the original photo I took of a gate that was near the Culture Exchange. I have noticed as I was curating each of the photos I have chosen, that the photo's angle was crooked to the right and that the parallellism was not noticeable.

Here I opened Photoshop and cropped the image to balance both sides without taking the message of the photo itself. I also adjusted the angle of the photo as to make it look cleaner and less harmful to the eyes.

F3.8, 1/200, ISO200, 6mm

Another one that had to be edited was this photo right here. If you observe the right side of the photo, you may notice a small smidge of yellow that ruins the photo subtly. So I had to edit it out.

The same thing as before,  I opened Photoshop and cropped the image to balance both sides of the image as one side was taking most of the attention away from the center due to the very bright and attention seeking yellow that was on the right side of the photo.

All of my photos have went through this process and have been curated to fit the message I wanted to present to the general public, though I also went and reviewed each and every one once more in order to make sure that I did not miss a spot or any angle. After which, I created a collection on my website where I had put these finalized photos into.

Reference :

Richman-Abdou, K. (2019) What is curating? see why more and more people are interested in becoming curators, My Modern Met. My Modern Met. Available at: https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-curating/ (Accessed: January 30, 2023).