My own photomontage

This is my own piece of photomontage in the style of David Hockney, as you can see it is not up to the same standard although I have had ago. To begin with I took lots of photos of around abouts the same place some zoomed in and out using different angle shots and then in the end to be putting them all together. At first this seemed to be quite easy putting the images togther but as I put more images together I found it harder and harder to get the affect from the image just been put in, you have to move all the layers around to get them showing in the right place and making sure that its not very clear that it has been placed and doesnt look weird. This is my first attempt at The David Hockney and would like to have another go to see if I can improve my work and to make it look good.

David Hockney

This is a piece of work by David Hockney, this is using the same technique as Martha Rosler but instead he has used lots of differents photos of the same landscape to create one. David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire, although he also maintains a base in London. An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.

Martha Rosler

This image has been created by Martha Rosler who is using the technique of photomontage, as you can see she has used lots of different images and created one. Rosler works in video, photo-text, instalation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and teaches art at Rutgers Univercity.

What is stop motion ?????

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J.Stuart Blackton for The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. Now it is being used all the time in modern day.

Stop Motion Animation

This is a music video using stop motion. As you can see they have used the idea, you can see quite clearly that have taken seperate photos and combined they all together to create a video and that is the idea of doing it.

My Own Photomontage !

This is my own piece of photomontage that I have created, I took a picture of a train station and put across the idea of graffiti in the picture. As train stations always have some graffiti at them. This was my first one and the one below is the same but I put a filter on it just to make it look a little different but I have published both to show a difference. I like them both and feel I have achieved the task of photomontage of creating a meaning with the all the different objects all to doing with graffiti.

PHOTOMONTAGE

Here i have some examples of photomontage , photomontage consists of using lots of different images that are cut out or constructed digitally. These images are put together to make a narative or create a story of some sort, it is not just a group of photos put together.

Also the images are sometimes have a filter on them as you can see with the two i am displaying they both have filters just to create another effect.

The first image is a collection of clocks or watch faces put together to show a narative of time , maybe thinking more into it about past , present and future.

The second image to me seems as if it is a album cover for a CD, there is alot of images int his that relate to music and the people are the actual band or group. Also a range of colours are used.

Combining Images

In this image here I have taken one of the pictures I have took and murged two other images with it to make one whole image. This may not be realistic although I supose people could be standing on roofs. But I liked the idea of it and thought that it is a little bit different and brings something different then just a background with something boring put with it and it looks like it could of actually been there. I enjoyed this task of experimenting using different images and combining to make one.I used the copy and paste tool tool quite alot to get the one image onto the other and also like you can see with the aeroplane I used the motion blur filter to create the affect that it was moving , to show speed. I also resized some of the little yellow men so as they got further back they where smaller, otherwise it wouldnt of been as could as it now shows a progression in the image.

This image was just one that had done after my first one and was just really playing about with the idea as you can see this one is not realistic at all but then i thought that its like when they have them cartoon characters in real life on the childrens shows.

Filters

In all these photos I have been experimenting with using filters making the photo look different. Not in all cases it makes the photo look better but I am just looking and seeing what they do. This one above I used the plastic wrap filter to get this effect, it hasnt changed the colour of the picture at all just the look of the picture.

This picture I used the photocopy filter as you might be able to see the best colours werent applied but I just looking at the effect that it has given , I quite like this effect its like a faded print with places missing.

I used liquify filter for this one but liquified it by hand and not the whole picture, I feel this is good as I could make my own shapes and changes and not as a default setting or change. I like the change I have made in the clouds making them flow into the building and as if making a dent in them.

This one I used a print screen to show how I changed the stroke length, dark intensity and light intensity. This was using the ink outines filter, I found this was my favourite effect.

This filter is called a blur I like the effect but I have kind of lost the actual image and is hard to make out, if you didnt know what the image was before the change I dont think that you would be able to tell, and is why I dont think I would use this unless it was with a clearer image.

I really like this filter it is called solarize, it keeps its image well and you can tell what it is. It makes it look alot better in the way of making the sky darker it looks stormy and then the mountains white bringing two different moods.

David La Chapelle

David La Chapelle is a photographer and video/commrcial/film director who works in the field of fashion, advertising and fine art.

He has published four books on his art work. La Chapelle also directed Elton Johns show 'he red piano' in Las Vegas. He has also directed adverts for major brand companies such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nokia, Diesel, Burger King. In 2006 also he directed 'Romeo and Juliet', also directed the season one of 'Desperate Houswives'.

David La Chapelle has also won many awards for his work :

- 1995 Best new photographer of the year.

- 1996 Photographer of the year.

- 1997 Art directors club award

- 1998 Best cutting edge essay and style photography

- 2000 Won best video

- 2006 Presented with GLAAD's Vito Russo award for outstanding contributions toward eliminating homophobia

La Chapelle’s work has been described as surrealist, shocking and ironic. His use of celebrities

exaggerates aspects of their personalities and their personal lives, I have found some work to prove this.

Negative image

Here is my original image and I will be turning it into a negative image, first I will use the hue and saturation tool and saturate the colour out of the photo right down to 0. Then I will be using the invert tool and finally turn the image into black and white.


Here I have a print screen of the first step, this is where I have used the hue and saturation tool and have saturated the colour out of the image. It doesnt look too different to the original , this shows that the original photo doesnt have a very rich colour pattern.

This is the final image and this is where I have used the invert tool and changed all the black colour of the image into white and all the white colour of the image into black. I have now achieved my aim by turining my original image into a negative.

Hue and Saturation

This is my original image that I am going to be editing. I am going to select a part of the image and intensify the colour, use the colourize tool on hue and saturation.


This is my second image and as you can see I have tried to intesify the colour of the sky to a light blue, this hasnt planned out to well as it has got a clear cut throught some of the see making it look like it has been edited to much. I didnt this using the 'magic wand' tool high lighting the area I wanted to change.


This is my final image and in this as you can see I have been playing around with the hue and saturation tool making it lighter, saturating the colour out and fiddling about with the hue just to make a type of image that showed the effects of using the tool.

Using the crop toll and levels

I am going to crop this image to try and make a better focual point of the photo.


This is what I decided to crop out of the image to make to the focus on the horizon on top of the moutains.

Cropping tool

You can use the cropping tool to improve your photo by cutting out bits of the photo you don't want. for example you could have a tree to one side that you don't want and you can crop that out of the picture. You have to consider though when using the cropping tool is that is it going to really make an improvement on your photograph and that you are not actually taking out something that is eye catching out or meaningful to the photo. Also always save the original first so if it goes wrong you can always go back.

Levels

A histogram is a graphic representation of the range of tones from dark to light in a photo. Some digital cameras include a histogram feature that enables a precise check on the exposure of the photo.

An under-exposed image is one that has to much exposure to light

An over-exposed image is one that doesn't have enough exposure to light

A correctly exposed image is one that has the right balance of light

The difference between a 'high key' and 'low key' image is that a high key is a bright picture with low contrast and a low key image is a lot darker and also have a high contrast.

Levels can improve your image by adjusting the brightness and contrast if its not right, and improve tonal range and remove flat spots.

You can use the magnetic wand which you go around the area you want to edit , which makes another layer and shows you where you are working.

photoshop first image

In my first photoshop image I played around with using different backgrounds and colours. I also used some tools for example I used the magnetic wand to select certain parts of the image I wanted to edit. As you can see I changed the image to a bit of a blur and also was able to copy one colour of skin and put it over another for example I put clear skin over a mole, This was my first time using photoshop and I expect the quality of my images to get better and hopefully look at things like layers etc.