Initial documentation

A couple of shots taken in my bedroom of my numerous belongings.

Shoes I never wear

Books I always read

I thought Polaroid photographs would be appropriate, as they connote documentation, quick flashes and snapshots of life. As I don't own a Polaroid camera I have tried to Photoshop these images into a scanned photograph.

To make the image more realistic I think it would be advantageous to take photographs from a greater distance. Polaroids are square, so any images taken on a conventional digital camera to Photoshop in are not as convincing as they are framed rectangularly. By taking images from a greater distance, the area of photograph shown in the Polaroid frame is of the entire (in this case) bookshelves, rather than cutting off the edges. The rectangular photographs don't have enough space around the edges, with no important subject matter, to reduce the image appropriately.

Another attempt, again with the same issue of it looking 'cut off' top and bottom. The nature of digital photographs means they don't work well within a square frame unless taken at a great distance so as to fit the entire subject matter into the square.