Q4 techniques employed to produce the context of images (everything outside the image) from beginning to the final presentation of the pictures

Magazine

Many magazines will frame the images on their pages. A lot of magazines will feature cropped images, or sometimes edited from the original so that certain parts of the image can be seen closer or even further away. 

Exhibition

The images at exhibitions are generally manipulated and not normally by the photographers who took the photos. Most of the images are put into frames but sometimes are left bare to show the true original image. Most of the galleries will have to produce space to make way for their presentations.

Q2 How images are formatted and produced for each of the two contexts. How are they made and displayed

Magazine

Many images for magazines are taken on location or in studios depending on the type of magazine. For example, National Geographic will encourage their own photographers to photograph images on location. This will normally be photographs of wildlife in their natural habitats. National Geographic also encourage people to send in their own photographs. Other magazines like Empire and even Vogue tend to not produce their images on location and favor to use studios.

Most images which would be found in magazines like National Geographic are not enhanced by software such as Photoshop, but many of the images in Vogue magazine are prone to using editing software on the images of the models. I personally do not agree with manipulating photos in this way, especially on the models, because it does not show their true beauty.

Exhibition

The images found at photography exhibitions tend to have been enhanced by using various software such as Photoshop. These pictures have been enhanced so that the photographer could get the best out of the images so that they are the way the photographer wants them to be. The origins of these images would have been taken on location or in a studio.