Straight Composite Image

This is my final production of a composite image. This was inspired by Dan Holdsworth with his photographs of the northern lights including mountain peaks and cold coloured scenery. I think that this was replicated in a similar fashion with the nebula begin added to a photograph that I took. 

Storm Thorguson Research

Storm was a well known graphics artist that created images for well known artists and bands such as Pink Floyd. Thorgerson, who was of Norwegian descent, was born in Potters Bar, Middlesex (now part of Hertfordshire), and he attended Summerhill School, Brunswick Primary School in Cambridge, and the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys with Pink Floyd founders Syd Barrett, who was in the year below him, and Roger Waters, who was in the year above him. Storm has a very unique style with creating graphic images. His work generally includes large unu

Audioslave

This photograph is an album cover for the band Audioslave. This graphic art displays a metallic flame in what appears to be in a mountain like landscape with someone spectating the flame. This matches to Storm's unique graphic work of using oversized objects and giving them glimmering metallic effects since the flame used achieves that.

Physical Images Straight Image

This is my physical image created by taking a photograph of the horses behind the fencing. This photographer that influenced me to create this image was John Baldessari, specifically his picture: "Tiger with three trainers". The picture by John highlighted the helplessness of the tiger being forced to jump through a flaming hoop. This helplessness is also emphasised in this photograph that I have created since the black and while, low saturated effect of the photograph brings out an unsettling feeling to the viewer. The fencing of the original photograph was stuck over with the paper which even further highlighted the helplessness of the horses. However the only difference between "Tiger with three trainers" and my photograph is that the tiger is coloured by stuck on paper while the horses in my image are not.

Portraiture Work Diary

This photograph was taken with a lower figure aperture of f8 which brought about focus on the person as well as the wall behind. The camera settings were set to an aperture priority setting so the shutter speed was automatically adjusted to show a clear photograph. Minor changed could be made to make the bricks in an orderly fashion while keeping the person as the main focus of the photograph. This adjustment would be made by rotation and cropping.

Before Edit

After edit

I believe that this was a successful edit since the bricks in the background are aligned. However the lower section of bricks gradually become more disorganised in the photograph. The only solution to this would be retaking the photograph. Overall I think that the final photograph was a good result.

This photo was also taken with a relatively low f stop value with a value of f 8 which slightly blurs out the background. Cropping and colour adjustments could be made to create a more aesthetic photograph.

Before Edit

After Edit

  

I think that this edit was successful since the photo includes the rule of thirds with the persons eyes line and the windows being in the top third.

John Baldessari Research Notes

John Beldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California.

John burned his own paintings, put coloured dots over faces in photographs, and covered floors at the LA County Museum such as this picture. The dots on top of the peoples faces are actually conjured price stickers that John has collected. The aim of the image was to hide the peoples face and have the viewer focused onto the peoples clothes, facial expressions and surroundings to paint a scenario without using facial emotions. This photograph in particular connotes love and interest in one another  since they're very close to each other while also having a relaxed body language at the same time.

This photograph was a manipulation of paper and colours to piece together this image of the womanly figure onto of the man. In my opinion, this artwork gives a mixed impression of love and invasion of person space. The connotation of love is presented through the hand holding of this photograph. However, the connotation of invasion of personal space is connoted by the purple colour of the woman's leg, onto of the red male figure which would demonstrate some kind of authority. The green, blue, purple and pink colours of the womanly figure also demonstrate more emotion and variety to a woman's personality while the male only has the colours red and orange which could depict aggression to a mans personality.

This photograph also uses the manipulation of coloured paper as well as the collected price stickers collected by John. This photo displays an orange coloured tiger jumping through a flaming hoop with three other people behind the cage with the price stickers over their faces. This connotes the helplessness of the tiger since it is behind the cage while the other people spectate the helpless animal. The motivation to make this picture was to highlight the wrong that people are doing to these animals. Therefore this was created and adapted to John's style of artwork.

Physical Images Image Bank

 Both of these photographs, created by Hannah Hoch, looks to have been created with physically manipulated items like paper which was probably traded and scratched. These photos were aleo transformed and altered to achieve its desired results such as the disproportionate body parts.



This artwork by John Baldessari manipulates images with filling subjects with colour to bring about different connotations and meanings to the photographs.

Physical Images Definition

Gilliam's animations link with Hanna Hoch's composites since both images and animation involve the manipulation of physical items to create something. For example, both Hanna and Gilliam's work both involve the use of newspaper that was cut to create their final pieces.

Hoch and Gilliam are a part of the Dada art movement. Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire and in New York.

Definition: Physically manipulated images.

Photo manipulation involves transforming or altering a photograph using various methods and techniques to achieve desired results.

Whilst this is usually done using software,  the physical adaptation of images is practised through e.g.

Tearing

Painting

scratching