Objects - Mini Set Build

For the mini set build brief we was put in groups of four, my group was elliot, tom and sarah.  For a few weeks we were stuck for ideas and when it eventually got to the day before the brief date we started to panic, I decided to do a brain map as I found them useful in college, So i created a brain-map and asked the group what came to their head when they first thought mini set build, here is the typed up version of the brain map to give you an idea of the things we came up with. 

The main influence for the fist idea was my idea of photographing peoples drawers and what things people have inside them, I got my influence for this idea from Jim Goldberg , I researched his work and found an image which i then tried to do myself. We then took that idea and changed it slightly by the idea of using a wardrobe instead so then the objects would be more face on when you are photographing them. So are final idea was to bring in a wardrobe and our own personal objects , we then came up with a timeline idea, and I suggested we use luggage labels to label the objects with whatever we wanted. We had a slight problem with the wardrobe and bringing it in so elliot suggested he brought in a travel wardrobe which we also had a problem with as it had broke whilst on the way to uni.As are idea was starting to fall apart we came up with the idea of using a backdrop stand and using that in replacement of the wardrobe and to hang our objects on that instead. As it got to my go to place my objects and start setting up the lighting , I began to feel slightly less motivated and didn't like how the setup looked. Once I began taking my photographs I didn't feel as though my photographs were coming out the way I wanted to so I finished what i was doing and came up with another idea. The idea still relates to the group idea of places objects in cupboards and wardrobes etc. I decided to place my objects in a new storage cupboard that was in one of the classrooms, I wanted to create the same personal effect but show how important these objects where to me by giving the photographs a museum effect. So I decided to photograph my objects separately in the glass cupboard using a snoot to light the side of the cupboard and reflective board on the other side to stop the reflections on the glass. We also decided to take photographs of the setup of the wardrobe idea. Here are the images of the setup. 

Here is the setup of the lighting, we used different colour gels for each persons objects, for the first on we used red gels. We had two side lights at each side of the frame. 

Here are the initial idea photographs which I took. 

and here are the edited photographs from my first initial photo shoot. 

to get this old vintage effect I made the image black and white and then changed the colour balance to make it sepia, I then added an old paper layer and used the overlay layer effect to get this. I do like the overall outcome but I originally wanted to show more of the objects, which would look something like this. 

Here are the next photographs I took on a contact sheet 

I had to take more photographs than I normally would on a shoot because I didn't have a model lamp and I was working in the dark so I had to use a tripod and line up the camera in order to get the whole shot in, it took me a couple of times to get the right shot. As I took so many photographs , before I started to edit them I decided to narrow them down to my top 10 images so its easier to manage, I wanted to display my images in a series so they either look like they have been taken together in one cabinet or just so they all link in together. 

here are my top 10 images before edited. 

This is my final design with four of my chosen photographs, i decided to choose 4 items that not only go well together  but that mean the most to me in an age order, the first one is my first knitted school  cardigan from my nana at the age of 5 , a cardigan that my dad brought back when working in Australia at age 6, my morris dancing pom pom age the age of 5 and my latest object of my prom shoe from the age of 16. My other ideas of presenting these photographs where to make a small book and present each image on a page from each age.