Introduction Part 2

This is part 2 of our image development assignment. For this assignment we have 6 weeks to complete the whole thing. We have to produce a final image of either a famous photographer or one of our own.  We can choose whichever theme we wish to use to complete this.
For this assignment we are working on blogger instead of in sketchbooks, we have to research a min of three photographers/artists, test idea's, experiment etc...

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.