From the course: Before & After: Less is More

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Before: Inside

Before: Inside

- Here's the inside of the card. Looks like this. Lots of pictures. When the portfolio folds open, this is what we see. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 photographs in a tiny space on a brown background. The brown really doesn't have much to do with anything that I can see. The photographs are all floating. I mean, they have dark shadows behind them. They have borders around them which I think we can see if we zoom way in. These really fine line borders and shadows. All of which adds a lot of noise and busyness. The photos are also a very odd variety of sizes. We have a really big dog nose running into this man's head. We have a tiny woman. And just a variety of other sizes. All of which kind of make a mashup. It's a good variety of pictures but there are too many of them. And there's too much extraneous detail going on. If we, you kind of see that here, if we just take a few of these pictures, crop them alike, so we have the three faces together. The…

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