Watching Project: Round 2

MagCloud New Perfect Binding Option!

When editing the watching project, I took into consideration the comments given in class about The Neglect Of Hands series seeming to focus a lot on the metallic nail polish. I decided to continue with the wild nail polish look and contrasted it with the mundane hand tasks of everyday life. I re-shot the simple hand tasks but had the model's nails painted as bright blue or neon pink. The nails seem to almost take away from the tasks at hand and make a viewer focus directing on the nail polish.

            I found working with MagCloud to be such an easy process. I had positioned the photos in the order I wanted on Flickr and then just simply uploaded the Flickr set to the MagCloud website. The order became very critical for me because I wanted to start with bold nail photos, which ended up being the blue, and continued with the slightly less bold color of metallic. I divided up the metallic and did half before the neon pink nails and half after. I think this categorizing is what makes the MagCloud magazine powerful. The categorizing was just as important to Robert Frank in his book The Americans. Sarah Greenough really lets the reader know why Frank positioned photos in his book the way he did. I found it interesting that when I looked at the book the first time (before I read the article), I didn’t see any pattern. Looking at the photos after I had read the article, it made me really ponder the photos and figure out why he put photos in the places that he did.