Final Evaluation

The use of Photoshop, Lightroom, and other editing programs have given photography a new look and style. These programs give photographers freedom in their work, give a solid backbone in advertisement and graphics. 

Photographers I have looked at like Erik Almas can use photoshop to enhance their world of photography. It also helped me to understand what process and techniques I can use to produce a similar range of photographs. 

Today's hand held generation make for an easy market to express your work. Social media sites like Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook and others make for excellent advertisement platforms, used already by keen photographers around the globe.

Throughout this unit, my skills in photoshop have increased. The  accessibility in making images creative and expressive can now be done from home, benefiting future work. 

What I have enjoyed throughout this unit was learning how to combine physical hard copy creations with digitally imposed ones to adapt them in photoshop.

Aspects that I have found hard during this unit was the scanning. This is because I shoot heavily in film. Transferring 35mm film across yet keeping the quality was challenging.

I regularly updated the blog, adding and removing text to make it longer and filling it with stronger information. 

In my free time I regularly seek out and research photographers and there styles. Because of this, I did not seem to find the research a struggle. 

I believe I have experimented enough In my blog. Combining digital and film, achieving realistic effects to my photo's. 

For my finals I have chosen "Decay and Destruct". I believe that they are strong and powerful words that carry great meaning. Easy to express with effect. 

My ideas were to create images that represent some form of advertisement. To do this I had researched into magazine covers.

For inspiration I had looked into the work of Erik Almas and Ritchard Moose. I love these photographers one for their photoshop skills, and the other for their film ability.

The techniques used by Ritchard Mosse really intrigue me, for example his shoot using 'inferred film'. This was a conflict based exhibition shot in the Amazon rain forest, changing nothing but the green dense vegetation into a neutral pink. 

I am happy with my finals as they have a combination of techniques  and process that connect them to the words chosen. 

I feel that the theme's "Distruct and decay" are well presented and expressed in my piece. 

If I had the chance to re-create my finals, I would do so using more actions in photoshop. This would allow them to carry better detail and become more eye catching. 

I believe that my blog is very personalised to myself. The layout and theme really express my work nicely, given a more individual style. I also feel that it has shown my digital ability well. 

Overall I have enjoyed this topic and can't wait to begin another.   

VSCO.cam

VSCO.cam is the closest editing application that represents a 35mm image. With VSCO you have a variation or film settings to choose from, for example "B5, C1, M5, T1, and more". It also contains a varied selection or settings that can manipulate the images contrast, saturation, exposure, and many more. 

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Aziz + Cucher

Anthony Aziz and Samuel Cucher are photographers and artists born in Lima, Peru and grew up in Caracas, Venezuela. They met in college and have since created work together. Their work consists of concealing the identity of their subjects by removing their dominant features, making them seem as if they are false or manikins. this could suggest many things, such as trying to show how everyone is the same if you remove the features that depict their individuality.

Ben B

Calum S

Sophie M

These images were created using the patch tool on photoshop. The tool allows you to highlight an area "for example the eyes" and can drag over another surface to transfer it. My three recreations were shot on 35mm film. XP2 and Kodak gold were te films chosen and scanned through.

Decay and Destruct

Decay

Creating this image was fairly simple but the outcome was very nice. A low key shoot gave the subject a dark and sinister look ready for editing. The next step was to find a skull "matching the correct enlineament", changing its opacity down and placing it onto the correct space. This then meant that i could remove the un-wanted parts or the skull to create a decaying portrait. last of all the image was flattered and made black and white.

Destruct

This representation of "Destruct" was created using both Photoshop and physical actions. the image was shot on a 35mm XP2 film. The image was then developed and scanned onto the computer. Next, a film exposure was burned and broken onto a scanner under white paper and heavy books, making a two dimensional copy ready to edit. These were then overlapped and dragged into the correct place. This then produced the result above.

Old scanns

These are a collection of old stamps. I loved the vintage look to them by there color. The homely feel to stamps make for a lush overlay, giving images this warm cosy look.

Still on the vintage look, i collected a series of old match boxes, cigarette boxes and others for there old fonts. these above had the nicest .

Pin hole paper negatives

Using a Bronica 120mm, we shot portraits on black and white photo paper producing a small 6x4 paper neg. This was difficult as the lighting was poor, meaning the timing had to be increased. by the time i had figured out the correct setting it came to be  an aperture of f.2.8 to an exposure time of 2 seconds. The next step was scanning through the negative and the overlaping material. I had chosen a old stamp to match the retro, vintage feel. These two scans were then run through Photoshop and overplayed, one black and white and the other given a vibrant colour. I think the outcome was great. 

Amanda Clyne

Amanda Clyne produces her work by cutting the same image and off placing them to give this movement and distortion.

Her work achieves this water paint effect which looks grate. The softness against the sharp lines gives it an eye catching contrast that makes you want to see more.

This is my Photoshop recreation of her work. To create this, you set a number to your marquee tool, giving an accurate and correct sized sliver each time. Next you copy using "Crtl C"  "Ctrl V" to paste and then "V" to move. i really like the work as it gives a sense of lag to the picture.

This was created using a 120mm film, enlarging it and then photocopying it. This was then layered and scanned through.