For this project, I came to understand the importance of compression, whether it’s lossy or not, and to know when is the best time to use each for specific jobs. Especially, in this case, the lossiest compression was the only way I could reduce the file size of some of these images.

I found it easy to practice level and curve adjustment when it came to touching up these photos. It was interesting to see the photos change drastically, and shift in tone and presence as if they weren’t taken from a camera after all.

The most challenging part of this project was its longevity. There weren’t too many times that I found myself completely disinterested in the process, but I found that it was getting repetitive when I had to crop every image the same way when all I really could’ve done is use a batch function or separate UI to crop multiple images at once. I don’t know if that’s possible without letting my computer catch on fire, though it’s certainly not a bad idea.

My submission could be improved by finding a better variety of images. Plain and simple.

I can’t be confident whether it would help, but instead of moving images to InDesign, each image could be placed onto a new artboard in Photoshop and be converted into a page each through its export function.

When it comes down to creating future portfolios, I will consider using this kind of formatting again. I don’t plan on doing it any time soon, but I might not know until I need it.