Dana

D**eadline 1: varsity soccer boys**

What I like best about this spread, are the action shots and the quality of the pictures, especially the dominant photo, which I bled at the top of the spread. Although the layout of the spread is simple, I feel that it was best for this spread. I decided to be creative with the side bar, and I learned how to crop out on photo-shop and use it on the spread. I took a big risk by not putting a story, and tried to replace the story with better action shots. Knowing what I know now, I would have probably put a story or developed a photo story.




 * Deadline 2: MUN**

My favorite part of this spread is the pool quote; the way it's in MUN sign, and I learned how to transport graphics other than photos into the spread. I also like the headline, I tried to be creative. Also, in this spread I learned how to fit pictures into other shapes other than a normal square or rectangle. A risk that I took was having the dominant photo take up half of one page, but I think it turned out for the better. To improve this page I would have added more photos and not left as much trapped white space as I did.




 * Deadline 3: Student Life Candids**

I love the collage arrangement of this spread which I believe makes it look like a scrap book. Working on this spread made me learn how to crop photos to my advantage and I learned how important balance and arrangement are. I definitely took a risk in making the spread this way as finding the perfect pictures was hard and at times frustrating. I was really bothered by the trapped white spaces on the sides, so to improve the page I would have made it so the page numbers were in front of the photos so no spaces would show.


 * Deadline 4: Sport Candids**

I think that the best part of this spread is the contrast in color between the gray scaled pictures. The photos themselves are great action shots and show the intensity of the sports. Action shots are hard to get so I learned many valuable skills in photo-shop whereby I played with the brightness and contrast with each photo to make it clearer and more attractive to the eye. I used the same idea in this candid page as I did with deadline 3, in using a collage spread so I didn't take as a big risk in this spread, but finding perfect pictures to fit each space was challenging enough. I would have liked to use more pictures and use more of an overlapping effect to improve this spread.