Joiner

I am going to attempt a joiner and these were the examples by photographers that i liked and inspired me to make mine.

David Hockney

The first photograph inspired me in a way that i noticed how it doesn't have to look realistic. For instance it looks like it has been cut out of a magazine. I'm not sure if that was the case but there you go. The second one is my favourite because the landscape is beautiful. The way in which he has fanned out the image is also good adding to the spacious landscape.

Cate Laskovics

I like this one because the way the different photos are put together creates a shape that exaggerates the perspective in the scene.

Zac Bubnick

I liked this joiner because the head switching gives a humourous element to an otherwise ordinary scene.

Mark Hockney

I like this example because it is simple but yet interesting. The formation of the photos are the reason for the abstract presence of the image.


For my attempt at creating a joiner I will choose the scene of my bedroom because it is a place where I spend some of my time and my project theme is Changing Landscapes (that I might come across on a day to day basis as a teenager). I will take lots of smaller photos of my bedroom. I will then put them into photoshop and try to create the bigger scene using the smaller photos I have taken.I would like it to look something like this.

Here is my finished joiner.

I think that i have done well because the picture actually does join up quite well, although looking back I think I could improve on it by being more careless in the position of the photos so that it has a more interesting/abstract vibe to it like the example of the office. Also if I had taken the pictures in the day time rather than at 8:00pm when it was dark, the light would have shone in threw the window lighting up the scene.

Photomontage

For my first photomontage this was my inspiration.

I will take photographs of a building and copy the image a few times but at different angle so it is a tessellation. I will additionally do the idea of using hands to make a face or a shape. Here is what i came out with.The hands aren't directly in the centre of the picture because I wanted to make it less normal and more interesting. This is my final result.

This photomontage ties in with my project theme which is things that I come across as a teenager as a regular day occurrence. The connection with the theme is that as a typical teenager I have an imagination and thats where the hands come in to it. As for the building they were photos I snapped when I was shopping. I am not particulary happy with the result though so I will have another go at creating a photomontage. However this time I will use these two examples as my inspiration.





As a typical male teenager I like the odd movie now and then. Especially if it has action and violence in it so that is what I am going to create. I will use a completely normal day to day scene I come across and make it action packed and exciting. I will incorporate all of this action in to the photo whilst also using this idea in the photo below that I found on the Internet.



I really like the feet in this picture. It makes you feel more as if you are that person and you are looking out across the hills.

Stop Motion Animation

How Does Stop Motion animation Work?

Stop Motion animation is a technique to make an object appear to move on its own, when in fact the object is moved very slightly in each individually photographed frame. When this is played continuously the object appears to move. It is a bit like a flick book because when the pages are flicked the drawing comes alive. Another example is the clay figures used in films like ‘Wallace and Gromit’. Clay is useful because it is easy to bend and move to the positions needed. This type of stop motion is called ‘clay animation’.

Here are two links to some music videos that use stop motion animation.

Plan B - No Good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5-m9Yy9rA Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

Stop Motion Proposal

Here is what I intend to do for my stop motion animation.



This is my story board for my stop motion animation.




and here is my stop motion animation.

I think I have created a slightly humorous animation but on the other hand it is quite serious. I think it reflects gun crime, as most of it is teenagers in gangs. It fits in with changing landscapes because it went from a normal street to a gun crime in a matter of seconds.

Composite Image

This is a photograph of two aircraft that I placed into a landscape. I used a number of different techniques to perfect the composition. Firstly, when i selected the plane I selected the outside of it using the 'magic wand tool'. Then I right-clicked and chose 'select inverse' which changed the selection to what it originally hadn't selected which was the plane. Then I used the 'polygonal lasso tool' to add and remove parts to what was selected. Next I dragged it into the landscape and adjusted the size and rotated it a bit. Then selected the filter 'motion blur' and clicked on 4 and decided what direction I wanted the blur to be. Once I had done this I copied the plane and added it in again but smaller and in the corner. After I had adjusted that one as well I put a bit of lens blur on the entire image so that it made it more realistic.


This a photograph that I have composed using two differetn images. One is a rooftop and the other was of someone doing a backflip off of a bench. I selected the trail of his flip individually and moved them on the the rooftop. I rotated and resized the images to fit the scenario. I also used the filter motion blur to make it look more realistic.
This fits in with the project theme of changing lanscapes becasue I have taken a boring rooftop and changed it into a place of action.

Filters

Here is my original photograph before I have edited it.

On my first attemp at using the different filters I used 'glowing edges' so that my picture apperared to have more of a nightlife feel to it. I think i have achieved this.


I then tried the filters out on a different photograph. The original is below.



The edited image is below. I selected two different colours that were purple and grey. I then clicked on the 'stamp filter'.

I adjusted the 'light balance' to 32 and the 'smoothness' to 1.

Firstly I made my photograph negative so that it added a strange feel to the image. It turned out like this.

I then thought I could use this to create a warmer feel to it as well by changing the hue/saturation of the image. Below is the amount of hue/saturation I selected plus the image after it was edited.

David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle is a photographer and video/commercial/film director who works in the fields of fashion,advertising and fine art photography. He is noted for his unique and often humorous style of work. Here are a examples of his photography.

This picture is of a fighter. He has got blood on his hands and a black eye. I think this really captures the brutality of violence.

This is a photo of a surgeon who apears to have a face dangleing from her hand. Her clothes are tight and slightly seethough. There is the medical instruments in front of her which makes you think that shew has just performed a face transplant or something along those lines.

Edit

This was the original below.



My edit is below. I made it shorter in height to give it a more empty vast landscape effect to it. I also made the sky darker and also the ground. I think that I have completed this task well and since I have made the same landscape look as though it is a darker more gloomy place I have succeded in editing it with respect to the project title.

Levels

Using The Cropping Tool

I can use the cropping tool to improve my photograph by using ‘the rule of thirds’. This consists of dividing the photo in to 9 equal squares by drawing two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines. You should make it so that the components of the image are constructed along these lines or their intersections. If an image composition agrees with these points, this supposedly creates more tension, energy and interest than just making it the centre of the photo.

When making my cropping decisions I do this to hopefully make my photograph more appealing.


Using levels

A histogram is a chart, which shows the amount of each tone that are currently making up an image. The y-axis is the amount of pixels there are. So the higher the reading on the chart the more pixels there are of that tone. If a histogram goes from one end of the chart to the other then there is a full range of colours in the image. This is from 0(black) to 255(white).

An under exposed image is an image that has a gap at the white end of its tonal range. This means not much light was present when taking the picture. An over exposed image is the opposite with a gap at the black end of the spectrum. It again doesn’t have a full tonal range. A correctly exposed image means it has a full range of tones and isn’t too slumped at either side of the histogram.

The difference between high-key image and a low-key image is that the tones in the images are clumped either towards the right or the left when you look at their levels. High-key images have tones that are clumped to the right and low-key images have tones that are clumped to the left. This may not be because the photograph was taken badly but it might be that the scene contained a lot of light naturally. In either case the images still need to have a full tonal range in order to be successful.

You can use levels to improve your images by resetting the black and white points of an image so that it has a full range of tones. You can change the channel as well so instead of working with red green and blue you can work with just one of them individually which would give you the ability to adjust the different tones of that individual colour depends on what you set it to.

I can use different selection tools to work on different areas of my image. I can use the ‘magnetic lasso’ tool. This lets me select the part of the image I want by sticking a line to the edge of a type or shade of colour. This makes it incredibly easy to use as it saves a lot of time and effort.