Why does jelly wobble?

This would be used to demonstrate still jelly, sort of like before the storm. 
The studio gives the jelly, great clarity an application to how good jelly is. 

This was the verdict after editing in photoshop. I  burnt in the background so you could fully see the different exposures of the Jelly wobbling. This gives children a clear understanding and example of a wobbly Jelly, but photographed in a playful manner. 

What makes a bubble?

I love the right image as the natural light falls perfectly on the bubbles. I like how Dylan is running through the bubbles to give understand that bubbles are fun. 

The bubble pictures needed to be more distinct. I wanted to capture the bubble as if its the only thing you can concentrate on. I love looking at bubbles in the light and look at the crazy patterns bubbles have when floating around, waiting to pop. 

I love this one it shows a great sense of colour within a bubble. The black space illuminates these round soupy objects and concentrates on the singular round object. 

Why do flowers smell?

This stood out from the rest, as the sun hits the bee’s wings that makes the bee noticeable. This undermines the reason for the smell of flowers, because of pollination. 

The Butterfly Farm, Stratford

Another insect that collects nectar is, a butterfly. Coming to the butterfly farm I had a chance to photograph butterflies that were poised on striking flowers. This was a perfect place to document the scent of the flower.

Why is water wet?

There is so many ways I could photograph wetness on a person, the main objective I wanted to stress was the feeling you have when your skin hits water. I know when lying in a bath, it takes me a while to get my head fully in and I think a child would be able to connect with that feeling. 

Wet hair is always a strong feeling you can’t ignore. I really like this image as it again, presents this question in an ordinary setting, however I want more concentration on the actual hair and would love longer hair for this image too. 







Following the underwater images from the swimming pool, I wanted to try photographing Dylan’s feel dry but surrounded by water, this was to give a sense of the feeling water as soon as you touch it and the first thing that touches is your feet. 
I would always dip my toe into the water, to try and test the temperature of the water.

This photograph documents the fun in splashing with water. The moment is goes everywhere and the shocking feeling when it touches your feet and other parts of your body when least expected. I will work on this image a bit more to get its exposure right as its quite over exposed on the skin tone.  

Why is the sky blue?

Why is the sky blue?

Light is a kind of energy that can travel through space. Light from the sun or a light bulb looks white, but it is really a mixture of many collars. The collars in white light are red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. You can see these colours when you look at a rainbow in the sky.
The sky is filled with air. Air is a mixture of tiny gas molecules and small bits of solid stuff, like dust.

As sunlight goes through the air, it bumps into the molecules and dust. When light hits a gas molecule, it may bounce off in a different direction. Some colours of light, like red and orange, pass straight through the air. But most of the blue light bounces off in all directions. In this way, the blue light gets scattered all around the sky.

When you look up, some of this blue light reaches your eyes from all over the sky. Since you see blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

The forecast for the next week said it will be perfect weather for clear skies, so I went out with the Hassleblad and my digital to find some interesting ways I could photograph the sky. 

I found this hard, as you cant focus on the sky, so I was finding near objects to frame the picture. I wanted to use ordinary settings you would see when looking up, such as trees and lampposts. Here are some I have selected that would like to try in the book. 

I liked this one, as I have saturated it which has made it look as if we are on holiday. However Im not sure a child would fine this stimulating. 

children's question's books

I found this book at Portsmouth library, it had a funny cover which made the illustrations look 3D. I think children would love this type of cover and they tend to judge a book by its cover very easily!

The book I'm guessing targets the ages of 7-14

I find the book layout and the amount it contains quite chaotic and wild, but I guess this ticks the boxes for these types of ages. 

Photographs

illustrations

texts are all fitted into double page spreads and tries and documents imagery with every type of factual information. 

Children’s author Antje Damm created a book titled Ask Me. It covers 100 questions, accompanied by rich and varied images that are designed to stimulate conversation between parent and children such as “What did you do in your mum’s tummy? Ask her about it!” or“How do you make people laugh?”

The questions are provocative and whimsical that cooperate with the images on the right hand side. Antje uses illustrations and photographs that are fully bled to the corner of the book, the images are all very different however there is a great consistency of layout and flow when turning the pages. 




I thought this was a great title for a book, which might make kids laugh! 

Its an innovative take on familiarising yourself with fascinating subjects that were hard to follow at school, including science, geography, languages, social history, wildlife and naming.

The book has all sorts of layouts within the pages, its interesting and puts a huge spin on the importance of learning in a school environment. I believe there is quite lot of text, however the images really explain a lot!




A fantastic and positively original children’s book
This appeals to all audiences, I played with this for a good hour, watching the Horse gallop on the page. 




Not only the moving images are clever but the text fits perfectly with them, it asks for you to join in as well!




I love the layout of this book as it keeps a simple white background for you to concentrate on the scanimations. The ending as a sweet conclusion of if you can do all of these animal like moves then you are a star!
I believe this book is a revelation into what I have seen in photography children’s books. 

Why is water wet?

Once I had my questions sorted I started immediately by using a underwater camera in the swimming pool to photograph the “wetness” of the water. I put the camera within the water and turned it over and shot above to capture the light hitting the ripples and movements. This I believe looks like water, however I want to show people touching the water. 


I love the top image, it captures Dylan using and exploring the water all around him.
I like the idea of using feet as a symbolism of touching the water. If your sock gets wet, or your feet are wet, its a weird sensation. I think people can connect with this and almost feel this sensation when looking at dylan’s wet foot. 

Oak Grove Collage, Durrington,Worthing

When talking to my aunty about my project, she suggested to try out the questions on her pupils and make a workshop out of it. 

The children are currently in year 9 and learning key stage three

Most of the children has autism or ADHD. 

When arriving, we went straight into thinking of all the crazy questions we could photograph. 

Some were really interested in the workshop, others just wanted to take photographs. 

What do cells look like?

A question asked and photographed by the kids.


 I enjoyed testing out the questions to the children, I felt it gave me a great insight into how children think and explore the world. 
However the pictures are not strong enough to use in a children’s book and do not sure a clear meaning of the questions. 
Instead this was great for research and to understand what children would like to find out about their surroundings. 

First mock-up for the crit

Crit feedback

I got a lot of critical advice that I need to look into.
Firstly was to either make my book 
a “how to”
or 
just a question book,
 most people swayed with a question book. They said it can downsize my audience range, which I never thought of. 
Rethink audience.
Secondly- the polaroids are too week

Thirdly- Too much white space in a children’s book, more colour.

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

The big font is work, simplify text and space the font a bit more-clearer to read.

the layout of the book

I found this incredibly useful on working out what layout looks best and if it could practically work. 

I drew out the layout of my mochette to see what the flow it like. However I tried out different methods of arranging my photos  then later just pick one that suits the book.