Journal on Rome

After being to Rome and experiencing the city myself I came back feeling like the project so far wasn't going as well as I thought as found it hard to concentrate on the idea of comparing London to Rome. So when I returned I felt that I could do more with this project and have a more focused journal on just Rome. This I find more interesting and the fact that I fell in love with the city will make this project more for me.

The Robinson Family on our Roman Holiday! (At the Colosseum)

As I was the person taking all the photos in Rome, I was able to take photos not only for my project at the time. Which was an advantage as I was able to take photos that weren't just of signs, I was able to take photos that were around me. This ultimately changed my idea after looking at the images once again to making my book on simply Rome.

My first ideas were to have the images in black and white but change around with the settings to make certain objects stand out to i.e. the colosseum. 

Like here I changed the background to black so the building would stand out. 

These two images I used the blue tint to see how they would look. However I do think that these images could be better used in my journal.

As well as images I would like to have a few words or a couple of sentences to show how I felt or maybe a quote or a bit of history to with the images to give the book more of a meaning then just a book of images.

Coming Back

After some time away from the project and coming back to it, I have felt that I can make a few more changes or improvements to the design.

I left the design in a place that I was happy with especially with how I have changed the images and made them look brighter/ darker along with making them look interesting on the page. The layout of my book is one of the key things that I have found hard with as I wanted images to flow but I also wanted the images to capture what I saw as well.
Another area that I am planning on chaining and improving is the typography in the book as I felt that over the months I have improved my skill on choosing the right typefaces for my work.

As Rome was my first experience hopefully not the last I would like to create a book that I can look back at and be proud of.