Research

These are a couple of examples of Wall's work that he has produced. I like both images are they are both very detailed and appealing. Both images look like they have been taken out of context. Both these images are very complex pictures and have been thought about why they are being taken in that place.

Above is another example of Wall's work. All of the objects in this image and been cut and paste from loads of different images to this one image, to make a completely different picture. I think that this photography has been edit really well. 

Research

Jeff Wall
He is Canadian photographer, and is well known for taking pictures of large-scale back-lit clbachrome and at historical writing. He experimented with his wrk producing such works as monochrome paintings made of layers of transparent varnish directly applied to a gallery wall. Walls work advances an for the necessity of pictorial art. Some of his work has been characterized as one-frame cinematic productions. His best work are of large transparencles mounted onto light boxes; he is known to have said that he conceived this format when he saw back-lit advertisements at bus stops during a trip between Spain and London. He is a contemporary artist, who is well known for his transparencies mounted on light boxes. His work has also been the main focus of numerous well-received museum exhibits around the world. Some of the work that Wall produces are complicated productions involving several different things such as: cast, sets, crews and digital postproduction. At the Vancouver's art scene Wall has been the key figure. In his early yeas he had helped out in the Vancouver school and has also published essays and wok of his fellow colleagues. His photographic tableaux is often a natural beauty, urban decay and postmodern and industrials featurelessness as their backdrop.

Editing Photos

In todays lesson firstly we discussed several different ways of editing out images on Photoshop. We were told how to use the following editing strategies: vignetting, adding colour, adding text, cloning and transforming. We had to show each different way of editing the image on our own images. Below are the different ways of editing your images.

Both of the images above are some of the steps i had to do to 'vignetting' my image. To do this we had to create a new layer. Then to create a boarder we used to tool brush and chose the colour of our choice. After that we had to hold down 'shift' because this then drew a straight line around the image. FOllowing on from this we had to click on 'filter' then 'blur' then 'gaussian blur' to change the blurriness of the image.

The image above is an example of adding colour. To do this we had to create a new layer, then we picked a colour then the bush tool and then we zoomed in and then colored in the hair. After coloring in the hair i clicked onto change layer and then to overlay. Following on from this i was able to change the opacity so i could control how dark or light i wanted the hair colour. 

The image above is showing 'Cloning'. To do this we had to select the clone stamp tool, then hold 'alt', after this we had to select the part of the image we wanted to copy and let go of the 'alt' key, and then colour in on the page were we wanted the clone to appear. 

Above is an image showing that i have used 'adding text'. To do this i loaded the picture into photoshop, and then clicked the 'T' tool on the left hand side of the page and then inserted the text, and then i changed the colour of the text so that it was more noticeable. 

These images above are showing 'transforming'. To do this i doubled click the background layer which is in the tool back on the right hand side of the page, and then pressed 'ok'. After this i clicked on

'edit' then 'transform' then onto 'warp', by this it ment that i could drag any part of the image that i

wanted and it would drag that part of the image with it.

This screen grab i was blemishing it to fade the crease that were on the face of my portrait.  

These screen grabs show that i have used several different tools while editing my images.

Experiments

Today we were asked to go out and take pictures of portraits and landscapes (artificial/wash-lands). The images above are the images i took. When we came back we uploaded our images to the computer and then we used Photoshop to edit the pictures. To edit our pictures we were told and showed how to use 'liquify', to do this we opened an image onto Photoshop then clicked on filter and then on liquify. We were told to experiment with our images by using the different tools on the tool bar on the left. I used the 'bloat tool' to change the shape of the nose, eyes, forehead and chins, this is to make the person in the image look slimmer or just to change some parts of the image. During this we were told to screen grab to show what we were doing, so do this i went to 'windows' then to 'history' this showed what i had done to the image, so then i screen grabbed the box that came up. After doing this i added another picture to my portraits, to do this i opened the image i wanted, and then dragged it onto my portrait. To then blend the two images together i changed the layer to 'overlay'. Below are the images i have edited.

Research

Duane Michals

He is a largely self-taught person, also his work is noted for its innovation and artistry. For several yeas he work in commercial photography, during this he covered the  filming of 'The Great Gatsby for Vogue. He is well known for not having a studio and just going out and taking portraits of people and their own environments this was a contrast to the method of other photographers at the same time, such as Avedon and Irving Penn.
When taking his images he also varies whether he wants them in black and white or colour. He makes
deeply personal to him not in the way the alienates the viewer.


In this image i can see two people which one is getting undressed step by step. The main focus being the two people that have been captured in the image. This image is also in black and white like most of his other images. These images are also based on a series of movement.

There is no graphological layout in these images. This is probably because the main focus is on the boy that is getting undressed.

In comparison to my images the subject is similar due to both being about people. However my images are all in colour not black and white. Both mine and his images are a serious of images both including people.

Research

Eadweard Muybridge

When taking his images he would put a row of 24 cameras all with electric shutters, these all would be trigged in a sequence so the horses were captured every four seconds. To get the images he wanted he had to use specific equipment which included: a tripod to avoid camera shake, he used 12-24 cameras with all the same exposure of 2/1000 of a second. 

Eadweard loved to photograph horses, his main aim was to get a photograph of a horse with all for legs of the floor. 

Before Photoshop was discovered he was a very talented image manipulator. He used to always digitally manipulate his images to make them more appealing to the viewer. He did all sorts of things when manipulating his images from cutting and pasting and different negatives laid in. To help him do this he created something called 'zoopraxiscope' which is now called a movie projector. In comparison to my work this is smiler because there is something going on in each image, but only one thing has changed but only slightly. However he works sometimes doesn't relate to mine because he has focused on horse and other different animals and i have focused on birds and people while taking my images. Also his images are in black and white and mine are in colour. 

The image below is an example of his work.

In this image i can see that the horse is the main focus of the whole image due to it being in the middle of the image. Most of his image are in black and white, and you will get the odd brown colour tinted into the image. This image in back and white with a tint of brown i think that it emphasizes the horses, which stand out mainly. 

Also i can see that the graphological layout is leading to the horse, this is because of the person riding the house has a whip and in every image taken the whip is inline with the horses head so therefore i think that Eadweard wants us to focus mainly on the horses. In the images it is very hard to see the change in each image however if you look closely you can see the change.

 In comparison to my images the subject is completely different but the structure is the same as there is something happened in each image.

Presenting Images

This shows that i can create a new page. I had to change the size of my image to A4 but if it was my final image to put in my portfolio i would change the size to A3.

This shows that i can crop my image to the size i want and then when i have done that i went onto 'edit' and then to 'tansform' and then i clicked on 'again' and this changed my next image to the same size. To double check this i zoomed in and measured my images against each other. 

This shows that i have put some of my pictures on photoshop and i have re-sized them so that they are all the same size. We opened a new page then selected and dragged our images onto the new page, then we changed the sizes of all the images while making sure that they were all the same size. Then i added a grid to the page to place my images so that they were all in line and the same sizes.

Resolution

The resolution is usually set to 72DPI (dots per image) but when we produce our final image we need to set the resolution to 300DPI. This means that the image is at a high quality when printed and all of the information will be kept. However if you kept the resolution to 72DPI some of the information could be lost. Also when changing the DPI to 300 we need to change the size of the image this is because if you didn't it would come out as a big file and will cash your computer.

These screen grabs show that i can rename my file.

Saving My Images

This shows that i can save my work while on photoshop. 

This screen grab shows that i can save my image as a JPEG. However if you save the images as JPEG it will squash the image to make it smaller. Also the quality isn't that good.  

 This screen grab shows that you can also save you image as a photoshop. Your image will still be a high quality, and will not get compressed. However you can only open this image if your computer has photoshop. 

This screen grab shows that you can also save you images as a TIFF. Your image will not be compressed and you can also access your images on any computer, also the quality of the images will be high. 

Contact Sheet

These screen grabs show that i have made a contact sheet using Adobe Bridge CS5.1

These screen grabs show that i can download my images through image capture. This is a faster process when downloading your images to the computer.  

Photoshop - Introduction

In this assignment we have been given six weeks to complete it. We were asked to create one image of a fantasy landscape, which will include all or some of the skills we have learnt through out this assignment. The idea of this assignment is for all of us to create a fake landscape that does not exist. We have to edit our photos on 'photoshop' to make them fake, therefore when editing we have to take care because we are showing management control. Also we are going to look at how other artists have digitally manipulated their images and compare their images to my own.