Photograph to copy

For my final photograph I chose this picture because I knew I could do it without any complications. When I saw this photograph I thought about Emilie straight away because she's got blond hair and I knew that she had some hair extensions that we could put into her hair to make the plait look as much similar as possible. I also didn't need to book the studio out because I could easily done it by a wall in my or Emilie's house.

Inspiration Images

 

 

Those are the 5 photographs I was inspired by, 4 of them were done in the studio and one on them was made outside the studio. I chose to do the last one of the girls back and the fish tale plait. The studio photos are high quality photograph and I was thinking about doing the one with red lips and red lipstick on because I could of done it of Molly, then I ended up mot doing the one of Molly because I didn't organised the studio and then I didn't got any time to do it.

Task 2

Last week we worked in Photoshop  we made something like collage. We had to do it because this is what we have to do for our portfolios. I had to open them photos in Photoshop and then made new page which was A3 size so it was big and neat. Then what I did was dragging them photos onto this paper.

I choose a photos that I'd like to put on there, and I choose 5 photographs. When I dragged one photo I had to make sure that it's the same size as the other one.

and to do so, I had to go to "Edit" then "Transform" and then click "Again".

When I put all them photos into one piece I thought I could make small spaces in between them so it looked better.

After I done that i had to go to "Edit" then click on "Stroke".

This is what the "Stroke" does. It puts them little lines around each photo so it looks nicer.

Then I had to do this thing where you can see the lines so you can move your photographs and see if all of them are straight.

FINAL PHOTOGRAPH

This is my final outcome and what I think is that it was a good practice to what we will be doing for our portfolios. It gave me an idea of how to check it next time if my photographs are straight while doing my collage for portfolio. I quite liked this because I've learnt something that I probably wouldn't do because I didn't know that I could.

Chapman Brothers

Our first task was inspired by "Where's Wally?" and Chapman Brothers.

Chapman Brothers are visual artists. Their subject is to concentrate on photos that are vulgar, offensive, etc. Chapman brothers brought Goya's etchings and they transfered them and then they added funny faces to it.

My photograph is similar to Champan Brothers work because we both added something to original photograph, we also manipulated image. Both our photos are black and white, on this photo on the left only its face is in colour. Both mine and theirs photographs are manipulated because what they did was they did sketches of some etchings of Goya's and added funny faces to it, I also did image manipulation and to do that I used Photoshop to cut me out from one photo and stick me on to another famous street photograph. My photo is one individual image but what Chapman Brothers did is series of etchings like that because they have done many photos illustrating Goya's etchings with funny faces on it. Mine and theirs photos are not of the same subject. The subject of their photo series was to add funny faces to vulgar and offensive photographs. My image is not sending the same message as theirs photos because their images are offensive and people might not like them because of what they did, they drawn funny faces onto persons face. They used etchings and paint and we used photos and they were made in Photoshop.

Task 1

For this mini task we had to pick a famous street photograph and go out with it and tell our friend to take photo of us so then we could put ourselves. I choose this photograph because it's busy, not boring and a lot is happening on there. To complete this task I used Canon 400D camera and Photoshop.

First thing I had to do was changing photograph of me to black and white as the original photo is also B&W.

Then I used 'Lasso tool' to go around myself to select me, I had to be careful because of my hair so I clicked on 'Erase' and the on 'Quick mask mode' so i could erase unwanted bits of photo.

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This is how it looked after, I then could drag myself to original photo and place myself on there.

This screen grab shows what I put myself onto the photograph.

FINAL PHOTOGRAPH

I like my final photograph because when you first look at it you not seem to find me and that was the point of it because the idea was taken from 'Where's Wally?'. The idea was take from there because we had to place ourselves so then other people had problems with finding us. 

Introduction - Homage to...

For this assignment we have been given six weeks to select photograph taken by someone else which we are then asked to copy. We can chose which ever photo we want, it can be any artist that inspires us. We need to observe every detail of the image so then our image will look the same. This assignment will test our skills at the camera and editing process. Through this assignment we will complete several Photoshop mini tasks. We are also asked to look how other photographers have used image manipulation in their work: layering, cloning, transforming and many other techniques.

Evaluation

       For this assignment I've been given 7 weeks to finish this Image Management. In this 7 weeks I've been asked to complete 4 mini tasks and a Fancy Landscape photograph which was meant to be fake landscape. Also, I had to research two photographers which were Seung Woo Back and John Goto. 
       For my first mini task I had to do a Image Within a Image. To complete this task Molly had to take two photos of me. One of them was me standing next to the wall and the other one was me sitting next to the billboard. Then I had to upload my images to a Photoshop. First thing that I did was I dragged the first photo into the second one and then I changed the opacity to 52% so I could see the billboard behind my second photo. Then I had to rotate the image so it fits on to a billboard. After that I zoomed it to delete unwanted bits of my second photo and to do that I used eraser tool. Then I changed the opacity to 100% and zoomed out so I could see if I deleted everything I wanted. After I finished editing it I had to flatter the image and save it. Through this process I screen grabbed everything I did to prove that I did it step by step. 
For my second final mini task I had to create Half In Colour Half In Black And White image. To do this task I had to take a photograph of something colorful and then upload my image to a Photoshop. When I did that I had to create another layer of the same photo so then I had two layers and I could start editing it. To start editing my image I had to click on 'Desaturate' so it changed the image to black and white. Then what I had to do was to click on erase tool so the colour on my photograph started to show up and I had to zoom in very close to see the edges of where I want the colour to show up. When I finished with that I had to save my image.
For my third task I've been asked to do Duplicating. For this I went out and took two photos of Emilie on the bench  One of them was when she was sitting on it and the other one was her standing on this bench. When I uploaded those photographs to Photoshop I then had to choose a lasso tool. When I chose this tool i had to go around one of the images of Emilie. When I finished with the lasso tool I chose erase tool and then clicked on 'Quick mask mode' to see what it looks like and then erase those bits that were still on the photo. After that I moved Emilie form this edited photo to the first one and had to fit her there perfectly. Then I used the blur tool to blur Emilie so it didn't look like I just copied and pasted her onto this firs image.
For my fourth task I had to to Painting onto a Photo. To do that I went out and took a portrait of Molly standing next to the wall. When I uploaded my photo to Photoshop I the clicked on Adjustments and then on Channel Mixer, and then I had to click on Monochrome so it change my photo to black and white. After that I saved it and printed it out on A4 piece of paper. I then used water colour paints to paint the black and white photo. 
For my final task I chad to create a Fancy Landscape. I went out and took photos of a big building, football  pitch, beer factory chimney and logo of shopping center in Burton. First thing that I did on this photo I used a magic lasso tool to go around the big building and then erased unwanted bits of photo then I dragged this building to the football pitch, and I had to change opacity so I could see where I have to delete the building. Then I did the same with a chimney and logo. After that I flattered everything and blurred around those three things that I added to this football pitch. For this assignment I used Cannon 400D camera, computer, memory stick. 
       What I enjoyed the most in this 7 week assignment was Painting Onto a Photo and Duplicating. The reason why I enjoyed them was because Painting onto a photo was very creative task and we have learned the techniques that all the photographers did when the colour photography wasn't even existing. I enjoyed the duplicating because for me this was the most interesting task of all. I like how you can manipulate image and make it look real even if it's not.
       If I did my final fancy landscape again I would add more trees to it so it would look better and probably I would choose some different building or objects to add to it as well or I would take two landscape photographs and combine them together and then maybe that would look better that my final fancy landscape that I have created.