David Hockney is an English artist involved in painting, stage designing and photography. He does a style of collages he calls "Joiners" that I tried to emulate. He uses this style as a way to portray movement in his otherwise still subjects. He created his first "Joiner" accidentally. While working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be an art piece on its own. After looking at the finished composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer moved through the room. He began to work more with photography after his discovery and stopped painting for a while to pursue his new technique.
To create my work I chose two different compositional rules to follow. The top photograph following the rule of leading line and the second photograph follows the rule of framing. After I took my photographs I layered them on top of each other to try and get the look that I wanted.
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I chose Time magazine to do my cover because I was able to get a black cover with only the Time logo at the top and it seemed like it would be the easiest to manipulate. It was easy to manipulate because I could take a lot of creative liberties since it was a blank template.
To emulate the magazine cover I looked at several different "TIME" magazine covers and figured out what the common theme was. For example the word time is only in front of the subject if the background is monochrome and is in the back of the subject if it goes across different colors. I did the same technique and put the title in the back of the subject because it would go across a dark background and the light skin of one of my subjects. I applied the same thought process when choosing the font style and color. The fonts are usually some variation of times new roman and the writer of the article is usually in red and italicized times new roman. For our camera set up we used a strobe light, modeling light, a softbox, a reflector, a grey card, and a radio trigger system. A strobe light is an additional light that flashes when you take the picture and is usually used with a soft box to direct the flash of light primarily on the subject. Modeling light is a continuous light source and it is used to get a good idea of what the subject will look like when the flash goes off. A soft box is a light modifier and it defuses the light into a soft even light. The reflector bounces light onto the subject to give the subject an even lighter or warmer tone. A grey card is a reference card used to get a consistent image exposure. And finally the radio trigger system is used to connect the camera with the strobe light flash so that the flash goes off at the exact same time the picture is taken. "Loud Flower"
The Image was taken just outside the student parking lot at Rancho Buena Vista High school. I used the compositional rule of Crop, I did this to bring out the subject so it what have the viewers undivided attention and not be lost among the clutter of the tree branches that surrounded it. The photo was taken with a Nikon D-90 with an 18-1400mm lens. I used photo shop to crop the image to be 14x11 and make the image resolution 300. My image is in the color division because it uses limited photo editing techniques and it’s a high quality digital print, printed on Epson Glossy Photo Paper on the Epson P800 digital printer. To make my photo I made a tessellation of the picture of the street and then I added a layer masks of the plants and my model. I didn't have a lot of time to work on the project because I was sick for the week we worked on it and if I had more timeI would have done a lot of things differently.
A Mandala is the same thing as a Tessellation it is just depicted in the shape of a circle. I created the mandala by using the template given to me by Mrs. Moncure. I used the magic wand tool to cut and drag a peice of the template onto my picture then I was able to save it and bring that part of the picture back to the template. Then you do a lot of transformations and rotations to reflect and merge the picture. I liked how a picture of a common object like a paint can, can become something abstract and unidentifiable. I struggled with making the pictures line up because I continued to forget to hit merge layers. If I had to do it over again I would take pictures of more common place items.
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Gino AlvernazI am a Junior in High school and a first year student to Photography Archives
May 2017
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