Composite Image Making
Digital compositing is the process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically to print.
Conventional photographic techniques:
Photoshop
Layers
Levels - the details
Saturation/ muted colours
Clone/ healing
Research Artist
Jerry Uelsmann
In this photo I can see a lake with mountains in the background with a large piece of rock in the sky. Additionally, the sky looks like there is a ripple, as if it was water and a reflection of the lake below. This photo has been manipulated digitally in photoshop by layering multiple photos on top of each other and converting it into black and white. Uelsmann could of created this photo to represent how nature is weird and creative by forming in different ways. Also, this could be suggesting how the rock is travelling into different realms/ worlds. This could emphaisise how our world is changing and developing and so it nature.
I like how Jerry Uelsmann has lips in the middle of the road because it could almost suggest that this is mother nature. Jerry Uelsmann photos are always blended together to make it seem like one photo making it seem as if the lips was already there. This is a teachnique that I would like to do because it would make my photos seem better and cleaner as well.
I like this photo because there is a dolphin in a lake which seems to be in a massive nature park. This could suggest how you can always expect the unordinary to happen and not everything is as it seems, and anything could happen as long as you have the right mindset/ idea for it. I like how Uelsmann has blended the ripples caused by the dolphin in with the rest of the lake to make the photo to seem more natural and realistic.
Jerry Uelsmann could be suggesting how climate change and global warming could be damaging this planet, hence why he has put a crack going through the sky. I like how he has put a simple thing in place of putting a crack in the sky but it holds a bigger message and warning. Also, this could suggest that the more damage we do to this planet the bigger the crack is going to get and slowly damage the sky even more.
Image Bank
I chose these as my image bank because they do not seem extremely edited but still seems interesting. The composite imaging does not make the photo look crazy or strange, it seems
I decided to use these two photos to help me come up with a composite image:
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I wanted to mix an urban landscape with a naturalistic one for my composite image making. I used these two photos so I could create an image of my friends walking down a staircase and into the middle of a forest as if they've just walked into a fairy tale. My research artist, Jerry Uelsmann, would take pictures of natural environment and then sometimes blend it with a man-made feature and I wanted to create a similar affect.
I managed to make the images look blended together to make it seem as if it is one natural image. This makes my image link more closely because Jerry Uelsmann's photos have a smooth transition from both of the images making it seem like the photo was like that in real-life.
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To take these photos, I used my Canon 600D camera with a EPS 18-55 Canon lens. When I was taking the photo of my friends I had my ISO set to 800 because it was a cloudy day and I was in the shade from the buildings around me, therefore a lot of light couldn't reach me. I had my aperture set to 16.0 so I could allow more light to be let into the camera and get a correctly exposed photo and I had my shutter speed set to 1/125.
Manipulating my photos
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The artist I decided to research was Jerry Uelsmann, he helped me come up with ideas to use both natural and urban landscapes and blend them together to create and interesting affect. He smooths out both of his images together to create the neat transition between the two. However, his photos were later converted into black and white to help create the blend, but I kept them in colour to help give the photo an interesting factor.
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To make tmy composite image making more personal to me I decided to keep the final image in colour because I wanted to show the contrast between the dull plain colours of the urban landscape between the variety of colours from the forest. However, to experiment even further, I might convert my photo to black and white and show how I understand how Jerry Uelsmann works.
I like how this image turned out because I have manages to create and interesting effect of my group of friends heading down a staircase and ending up in the middl of the forest. Also, I like how I was able to black two images together to make it seem like one full image like Jerry Uelsmann does. By doing this, my image seem more natural and believable that it is real, because I like natural photography which seem real and natural.
