Choice of Images

Naturally in a project such as this you end up with far too many photographs from which to choose to put into the final presentation. Among many others, my initial choices included the following images which I later decided not to include.

                    

The above images, while being good enough to include in the book, were too obviously related to crime scenes. This was pointed out to me by members of my family when previewing the project.

These images are actual crime scene images I took while in Preston high street, however unless you crouched down and peered under the metal shutter, the damage could not be seen.

When designing the Blurb book on-line there is the ability to include a photograph within a photograph. Initially the above two images appeared as two small separate images inside a larger image which showed the scene overall (this has been left in the book). Again it was thought that to include two images that obviously show damage would enable the viewer to too easily 'read into' the image and guess at its meaning.

 In the book there is an image of a piece of wood with two holes in it alongside of which was the above image of two pistol cartridge cases which seemed to suggest that these were used to make the holes - again too obvious. Also, it was thought that cartridge cases are not items that the general public would normally come across.

 

These two images were initially included within the first image in the book of the damaged gate as described above. They show the paint on the gate from the vehicle used to ram into it and the damage to the chain by someone attempting to saw through it. The three images together were thought too obvious a link to crime.