Evaluation

For this project we had to make a fantasy landscape. By doing this i took landscapes and i added images into the landscape. I added a landscape on top of a landscape to make it look like a bridge is in the landscape. I added my grandad and his dog, a boat, some birds sitting on the bridge, and the bridge and water. To start with i just thought ild add the bridge but as i got going, i thought to add different things to make it look better. I added things, then deleted them and added different things because i didnt like them.
By making my image, i have used photoshop and i have used Vignetting - you have to add a new layer, draw a border around it by using the brush tool, then go around the image and hold down the shift key as you drag across. Then filter, blur, gaussian blur, we also used 'adding colour' you have to add a new layer, pick colour, then 'image- mode- rgb. Then zoom in and when coloured in go to the layers box and change it to overlay. 'Cloning' is another thing we used this is the clone stamp tool select the alt key, select the area you are copying from, select where you go from, let go and then paste it on. Then 'Transforming' Double click on the background layer and press ok - edit - transform - warp. This tidys up the image.
The problems i came across was that the image didnt look to real, by fixing this i added a shadow, or i blured the image a little bit.
i have researched two artists which were 'John Gotto' and 'Jeff Wall' these artists relate to my work as they also do fantsasy images, and add things into there image to make it look realistic or non realistic.
i am pretty pleased with my final image as i like the things i have placed in it. i like how it doesnt look too non realistic and i really like how the bridge and water fits in well with the image, it almost looks like it was already there. if i was to do this again, i would pick a new lanscape and actually takethe images of objects i knew i was gonna placeinto it to make it look better, because on this one i just placed random images i had already taken for a different project and put them into it. but overall i am pleased with my image.

layering

 to layering up images, you have to add a new background into the background there is. First you have to erase the bacground on your original image. then I added a new sky to my portrait, and i dragged a background image onto it, then i pressed overlay so it goes into the background.

 i used the magic tool to get rid of the background to add another one onto it. 

 

 this is what its like without a background image.

 then this is what it looked like when i added a background.

John Goto- artist research

john Goto is a british artist best known for his photo digital artworks. He has worked with historical, social and political subjects throughout his career.
In the late 1960s John studied fine art at  st.martins school of art, in London.

In the 1980s he began work which combined painting and drawings with photography, laying the groundwork for his later practice with computers. He originally studied painting at St. Martins in the late 60s. He was influenced by cinema, literature and culture he moved into photography and began exhibiting with a retrospective at the Photographers Gallery in 1981. In the late eighties he began a cycle of exhibitions concerning recent history with moving Terezin series which concerns a Bauhaus trained artist fellow at Girton college. He exhibited widely in Britain and Europe and presently lectures on the photography course at the University of Derby.

my final images

for my final image, i took a image of a landscape of tree's in the washlands like below, then i added things into the image. i added a bridge and water which i taken at roslinston forestry centre.
the image below is the image i took to put images into it, but i adjusted the brightness and contrast so it was brighter then placed my picture in it.

 - this is the tool i used to cut around the image, i used the lasso tool to cut around it and then copied the image and placed it onto my other one.

   - this is the image i wanted to place into the lanscape image. i copied the bridge and the water to place into the landscape image. 

after i wanted to add sea gulls to show them sitting on the edge of the bridge, by doing this i zoomed in on them to make it easier to copy, then i copyed them onto the bridge like the image below.

 i also added a cat into it. by doing this i dragged the image ontop of my other image, then i erased some of the image so you could see the cat behind the bridge, then i used the history tool to make some of the panels of the bridge again.

 this is the history tool which i used to bring back some of the image that i erased by accident. 

 i adjusted the size of the brush ect.. 

 i also added my grandad and his dog in the image, i did this the same way as i added the cat. i had to move the layer so it was inbetween layer 1 and the background image, this made it go behind the bridge. 

 

 on this image, i added it into the image, then i added a shadow to it, i did this by clicking on the layer then clicking drop shadow. I adjusted the shadow to make it bigger and smaller.  - this is my final fantasy image. 

Artist research - Jeff Wall

Jeffrey Wall is a Canadian artist best known for his large scale back lit cibachrome photographs and historical writing. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop received his MA from the university of British Columbia in 1970. He presented his first gallery exhibition in 1978 as an installation rather than as a photography show. He is known for large scale photographs of everyday scenes with figures in the early 1990s, he became interested in still life's. 
since the early 1990s he has used digital technology to create montages of different individual negatives blending them into what appears as a single unified photograph. his signature works are large transparencies mounted on light boxes, he says he conceived this format when he saw back lit advertisements at bus stops during a trip. He began making traditional silver black and white photographs, and this has become an increasingly part of his practice since that time. 
Wall's images are interesting and similer to ours. His images look loads realistic though.

Fantasy Landscape

We have 6 weeks on this assignment to complete our final task as a image of our fantasy landscape. We have to take a image of a landscape and create it into our own fantasy image by placing images into the other image.
The following weeks we have had to learn how to edit a name of a folder, use photoshop in different ways to edit images, and by doing this we had to screen grab everything we did and publish it onto the blog.

Transforming

 First of all you select the image you wish to transform. Then you double click on the background and press 'OK'. 

after you have done that, you must click 'edit' 'transform' and click on where it says 'warp' then a scale will come up ontop of your image, like below, and thats where you move it around and change the image to how you want.

  You can make the image move where ever you wish too. 

Adding Text

When you add text to a image you have to click on the little T tool on the left hand side of the page, (which is shown above) then you write the text you wish to type (on this image, i did a dandelion poem so it fitted in with the image) then make your writing how big you want it and what font you want it to be, then you have simply just got text shown on your image. Below is a before and after screen shot of my images.


- before


Here is the image with my text on, i changed the font of my writing, the colour and the size. i like this how it blends in well with the image and the text fits in well.




- after

Cloning

 'cloning tool' 

 after

 before

'history brush tool'

When cloning a image you simply click the clone samp tool then go over the image you want to make double, then simple brush on the other image on another part of the page, wherever you wish the other image to be, then you have two images, then you have to select the history brush tool and that is just like an erase tool but it brings up the image from before, you use this to rub out the outside of the image to make it neater.

adding colour

 to add colour to your image you have to select a image that you want to add colour to, then change the colour that you wish to add, then you simply use the brush tool to draw onto the part of thei mage you want to change the colour. Then click onto the layer part and change it to 'pin light' and the image will turn out like below. i also just simply changed the image to black and white too make the colour stand out more.

 

Vignetting

 - The brush tool.

Before

After

 you click on the blur option then gaussian blur. 

                                   The first thing i had to do is called 'vignetting' by doing this we                                 had to select a picture we wanted to edit, and make a new layer, then select the brush tool, then you have to add a border by clicking the colour you want, then when your adding the border hold 'shift' down and drag along to make the border, by holding shift it makes it straight, then we had to blur the image, above is before and after of the image, by bluring it we had to click 'filter' 'blur' then 'glaussian blur', then your image will be blurrier then before, like above.

Research - Eadweard muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge is english photographer who was born in Kingston in April 1830. He spent most of his life in the united states. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion. He does most of his work in film strips. In 1872 he was a race horse owner and taken a position on a popularly debated question of the day; whether all four horses hooves are off the ground at the same time during a trot. 
In later studios he used a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed. the picture below is 'muybridges the horse in Motion. This image is similar to mine as it is in a sequence. They are in a series like my images are and are in black and white, although mine our in colour.This image is a small image and my image is bigger. They are not based on the same subject. 
The image on the right hand side, is another picture i liked as it has lots of pictures in the image and shows the different things in the image. Like different steps to dancing. This image is similar to my images as there in a sequence, however there is more images on this sequence and this image is in black and white where as mine is in colour. they re both in a series and both of my images and these images are large files. Our images are not really composed in the same way, as his look like they have been taken inside and my images were taken outside. they seem to be at pretty much the same distance, and ild say my lighting is brighter compared to these ones. 
  

Research - Duane Michals

Duane Michals is a american photographer, who was born in February 1932. He self taught himself. He works in sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy. he has shot everything from life covers, to fashion spreads for vogue magazine to annual reports for the new york times. He was influenced by robert Frank and Rene Magritte. Duane Michals is one of the few photographers where his equipment is inconsequential. He couldn't care less about what film or camera he is using. He is interested in the things he cant capture with his camera. He is greatly influenced by the surrealists and his pictures are mostly in black and white, they often have a dreamlike quality. They are naive in the sense they look like old fashioned photographs. His big themes that he does are 'death, love, family, spirituality. 




This image is not really similar to mine however it goes in a pattern and sequence which mine does too. Both our images go in a series which makes them similar too, Both the images are Large files. There not really based on the same subject. I think this image is interesting as its only in a sequence of 4 but it clearly shows the different motions in the image. 
 
this photo is called 'chance meeting and was published in 1970. This image is similar to my images because he has done them in a sequence and captured the different things happening in the image. His images are in black and white and mine our in colour. Both of our images are in a series and both our images are large files. The composition on this image is similar to mine as both mine and this image is taken outside and taken with people in it moving in different motions. The lighting is obviously brighter in my image as this ones in black and white and mine is in colour.

organise and present images sequentially

By organising your images in photoshop you have to do the following, 'file' 'new' then you have to change the 'default photoshop size' to 'international paper' then change the size of your paper to A4, then click on the 'move tool' then at the top of the page you have to click on the two 'auto select'  and 'show transform controls' 
then you have to select and drag your images onto the page, and selecting your size. Then drag another image across which you want on your page and click on edit, 'transform'  and 'again' until you have all of your images onto your page. then you have to create a border around your image, by doing this you on your picture, then click on edit 'stroke' then change your 'px' to 20, and you have a black border around your image, do this to all of your images, you change change the colour if you choose too. Then finally you save your image. 

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