Aragon - Digital Photography 

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Project #8: Reconstructed Panoramic Images in the Photomontage style of David Hockney

Tips for taking pictures:

  • Choose one interesting subject to photograph (can be anything and should be photographed during the day to get the best possible lighting and colors).
  • Standing in one area zoom your camera into the subject and begin taking photos of different parts of the subject. It is very important that you do not change your location too much and do not change the camera’s zoom as this will make the pieces not fit together properly.
  • All 10+ pictures should be taken in one sitting as different times of day will create different lighting.
  • Take more pictures than you think you need to prevent missing areas in your finished artwork.
  • Make sure to include the area around the subject as you may choose to include this in your final artwork.
  • Once you have finished taking your photos bring your pictures into class and upload them to a folder on your class computer.

 

Once pictures are uploaded:

  • Create a new document in Photoshop (file>new) Make it 19x13 inches or 13x19 inches AND 300 resolution. This will give you a very large blank canvas to add your photos to.
  •  Next, open your photos in Photoshop. (You may want to only open the ones you think you may actually be using)  
  • VIDEO TUTORIAL:  HOW TO CREATE COLLAGE IN PHOTOSHOP
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3q59aeDY
  • Edit each layer (using Image Adjustments) so that all the photos have good contrast and are all matching in colors. This may take a long time as you will need to do this to all your layers.
  • When you are done save your file: last name first initial_collage.jpg

 

Criteria:

1. *BE CREATIVE!  Take pictures away from 

2. Your composition must have at least 10 images in it.  This means you should probably have double this amount of pictures to choose from.

3. Use the zoom control on your camera to crop in on certain elements of your composition.

4. Incorporate yourself in some way inside of this composition.

5. Demonstrate evidence of your understanding of foreground, middle ground, and background

WEBSITES:

1. VIDEO TUTORIAL:  HOW TO CREATE COLLAGE IN PHOTOSHOP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3q59aeDYqc

2. ARTIST WEBSITE WITH EXAMPLES: http://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/hockney.html

3. Websites for further Hockney Research:


BELOW VIDEO TUTORIAL:  HOW TO CREATE COLLAGE IN PHOTOSHOP

History behind the Process:  Discovery of by David Hockney

Photoshop Directions - In Print

1. Create a folder and place all of your photos inside.


2. In photoshop CS3 or CS4 Select File>Automate>Photomerge>Collage and unselect the option Blend images together (we don't want to blend them). Click OK. Photoshop will put all the images onto a transparent canvas in separate layers. You can then adjust the position of the images using the move tool on some layers or delete extra layers if you have too many.

3. Select one of the images and at the bottom of the layers palette select stroke> Select inside> colour white>10 pixels (you can vary the size of the stroke depending on your image size). Then add a drop shadow to the image using FX feature at the bottom of the layers palette.

4. Then apply the stroke and drop shadow to the other layers - Alt-click and drag these effects onto each layer. (this saves time of having to stroke and add a drop shadow to each layer). Note you don't have to add borders and a drop shadow I just like to because it enhances the separation between the images.

5. To add a white background (or any colour background), create a new layer and fill it with white or the colour of your choice and drag this layer to the bottom of the layers palette to create the background.

6. You may want to increase the Canvas size of your image - Select Image>Canvas size and add 1 or more inches, leave the Anchor set to the middle so the canvas increase around all sizes and you are done.

The technique is easy and fun to apply to people, animals and buildings. If you are looking for something different to try the next time you go out to shoot - try a Hockney style photo-collage.

Manipulating your layers - Placing Individual Photos

DUE DATES:


Friday, 12/2: Google Classroom

-Turn in Research and Planning

-Turn in Warm Up #10


Monday, 12/5 

- Have 15-25(or more) photographs using 1 of the 3 options for the project. 

*You need photos in order to work on project in class

-Edit composition.


Tuesday, 12/6 – In Class

-Continue to edit composition.

-Final photomontage due next class!


Wednesday, 12/7 (Period 1) or Thursday, 12/8 (Period 2) - In Class

-FINAL Photomontage due

-Turn in photo to google classroom - Final Photomontage

Save File as: last name first initial_photomonage.jpg    

EX. nelsonb_photomontage.jpg


Check image size and resolution in photoshop:

  12 in. x 16 in. (Portrait)  

  12 in. x 16 in.  (Landscape)                          

  300 RESOLUTION


-Critique with small group and entire class.

-Vote on best in show!


     David Hockney-  A British born contemporary artist known for his paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs.  For a period of Hockney’s career, he focused specifically on creating photographic compositions.  Using varying numbers (5-150) of small polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite (a piece made of many parts) image. Because these photos are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the resulting work has an affinity with cubist perspective and the way human vision works..

      These photographic collages appeared mostly in his works between 1970 and 1986. He referred to them as "joiners". He began this style of art by taking polaroid photographs of one subject and arranging them into a grid layout. The subject would actually move while being photographed so that the piece would show the movements of the subject seen from the photographer’s perspective. In later works Hockney changed his technique and moved the camera around the subject instead.

Cubism- In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form — instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to present the piece in a greater context.

Perspective- The way in which objects appear to the eye from a particular viewpoint.  As objects become more distant, they appear smaller.  Different distances from one’s perspective can be categorized as foreground (refers to the space closest to the viewer), background (the area farthest away), and the middle ground (everything in between)