Project in Practice
This section displays all of the final outputs for the project and why these are relevant to the topic.
For the final output of the project, I wanted it to be a photography series. The photographs would be split into two main sections (described below). Alongside this is a collage that will showcase a number of real and fake images of social media celebrities. These will all be displayed in the final exhibition.
During the project's final stages I faced some challenges that I had to overcome as part of my learning process. I had to research and find AI tools that I could use for the project; these are all tools that I had mostly never heard of before, so I had to familiarise myself with these. Another challenge I faced was with using Photoshop for a number of the images. I have used this before, but I had never used some of the tools needed for this type of editing, especially in relation to the brush-up of portraits.
Photography Part 1
The first section would be edited portraits of individuals and AI-created portraits of individuals. These will be mixed and shown together with the aim of highlighting to the audience how hard it can be to spot a real and fake image online. This image series will be displayed in the exhibition with a lift-the-flap style design to get the audience to guess and interact with the images.
Photography Part 2
The second section will showcase images that have been edited, either by me or by AI, to see if people can tell what has been altered in every image. This is because the context of an edited image can potentially be a factor in whether people think that the extent of editing is acceptable to them or not. These images will also be displayed in the exhibition with a lift-the-flap style design, but this time the flap will reveal what aspect of the image has been edited.
Collage
Alongside these images I have collated real and fake images of celebrities on social media that will be displayed alongside the two photography series in the final exhibition. This will tie together the two photography series and will also act as a visual divider between the two series in the exhibition. Depending on the size of the exhibition space and the size that the images are printed as, more images may need to be created and edited for the final exhibition.
