Finalising Presentation

After much fuss and worry, my prints are finally done.
The colour came out quite different on the OHP paper, more greenish and yellowish but I think I like it better.
I had to re-print a few because the prints are so delicate and I scratched a few, also because a few of them were too light to be seen on transparency paper.

Thinking that I was on the home stretch, I bought myself some double-sided tape for mounting and went in search of a suitable window, only to find that the prints didn't show up on a transparent surface. Some turned completely clear both on sunny and dark windows. Also, things in the background distracted me from the image.
So at the last minute I was now searching for a suitable wall, and once I calmed down I realized that the perfect space for my work was still available, so I guess I was quite lucky there.
I ended up mounting my work with pins an inch or so out on a nice white wall at the end of the corridor, so hopefully it catches a bit of breeze from time to time so that the images flutter.



In the end my presentation turned out better than what I'd expected. Mounting my images on the wall with pins looked better than a window display ever could, and I think it had more relevance to my subject matter due to the way it shimmers and flutters.
My only complaints about the presentation is that I didn't consider that the glossy side of the prints would look best, and how when I flipped them around they would then be backwards. Of course, no-one else realized that my prints were backwards, but it still bothers me.
My other gripe is that I put the prints up in the wrong order. At first I thought my new arrangement looked better but now I've decided that the original order would have looked much better due to a better balance of alternating light and dark prints.

Printing Dilemmas

So I finally Got my images to look how I'd like them to look and went to print them at school.

I had an epiphany that day with regards to how I'm going to print my images too. I was originally a little disappointed that I couldn't afford to print my image as a large enough window sticker, and I was worrying that even the largest poster size at most print shops was too small. So I'd come to the conclusion that It would be best to print the images out individually on A4 photo paper and then arrange them together with a gap. It was then that I realized that printing on OHP paper would also give me the transparency that I'd been wanting.

Now, I know that things are never supposed to work out when you're printing, so I was prepared for the fact that my images were completely the wrong colour on the properly calibrated monitors, and for the fact that the school computers run so slow that it takes the best part of half an hour just to alter a couple of colours, and I was prepared for my images to rebel and not allow me to change some of them.

I wasn't really prepared for a paper crisis though. Apparently inkjet ohp paper used to be really easy to get, but just since I needed it for my project, everyone decided to discontinue their stock.
What's worse is that I phoned up Stationery Warehouse and asked if they had any INKJET (with a capital INKJET) ohp paper, to which they say they had plenty. So I went all the way over there, and two employees double checked that it was the right stuff before selling it to me. I took it back to school and guess what? It wasn't inkjet ohp paper at all, but the prints had a lovely runny quality to them. Too bad they'd never dry. So I took the paper all the way back and waited 20 minutes for the supervisor to finish her coffee so that I could get a refund.
In short, don't go to Stationery Warehouse. They are dicks.

Anyways, in the end I ordered a pack of the real stuff from Office Max, simply because the guy who served me so so enthusiastic and eager to help. So now I have to wait until Monday morning to print. Lets pray nothing else goes wrong.