Midterm Final Product!

My article is finally done! I'm really happy with the way it turned out. I was initially having an issue with figuring out how to get my article body text to stand out from the background, but I think putting an opaque box behind and text and editing the background photo slightly was a good solution. I also bumped up some of the red and yellow levels on the background photo to make it a little more eye-catching. Then all that was left to do was find just the right font, and I think the one I chose works well with the piece. Overall, I think this looks very much like a typical article one might see in a travel magazine, or Midwest Living magazine, which is what I was trying to emulate. 

More Midterm Progress!

Back when our class had our first in-process critique of our midterm projects, a very good suggestion was made to me. Why not pretend that these two pages are actually just the first two pages of a larger three or four page spread? I thought this was a very good suggestion because it would give me the opportunity to focus a little more on creating a visually appealing spread that catches someone's eye and makes them want to read the article, rather than having to focus so much on the actual writing of the article itself. So, I decided to tailor my project in this way, and so far I am happy with how it is looking!

I'm going to have to do some messing around with the fonts and font colors, as well as a way to make the text that will go on the right side of the page stand out from the background. I may also take the main background picture into Photoshop to tone down the brightness of the sky if possible.

Midterm Update

Milwaukee is an incredibly difficult city to photograph this time of year. The number of cloudy and days definitely outnumber the sunny ones, and so I had to put off my photoshoot of the Third Ward and work on my article instead. But finally a while back, there was a perfectly sunny day and I was able to take tons of pictures. At the end of the day, I had about 30 pictures that both work for the article and turned out very nicely. After editing those photos in Photoshop I waddled that number down to 15 - still too many to fit into a two page article. But, as the article takes shape I'll be able to reject more pictures and narrow my choices down to 4 or 5. Next step - Laying this out in InDesign!