Personal project#3: multiple images.
Multiple images can be a lot of different things, it could be a colleague having lots of images in one, all cut up. Or it could be multiple exposure image, blending a few images into one. Or even a row of photos played in order to make a story.
Ideas: -Burst shots of Ballerinas spinning across a stage -Multiple exposures of a boxer training, or the hammers in a piano whilst someone is playing the piano -Two images of two facial expressions cut up and woven together -A projection of a skull on hands covering someones face -Lots of images telling a story. |
Left: a multiple exposure made in photoshop, you can blend two photos together and make them into a half human half anything-else picture. This is called multiple exposure.
Right: a projected multiple image. A projection of a flat complex shown on the body of a woman. Each method has different effects on the viewer. |
My Ideas.
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- So far I am halfway through my two first attempts of presentable pieces. Some edited pictures made in Photoshop are on my site and blog but they aren’t ‘final’ pieces. The two I am working on are: a narrative image about someone jumping out a window and plummeting towards the ground (first person). And the woven image of two faces, let’s call it split personalities. The only problems I have faced is lack of resources. For example I want to get multiple exposure of a dancer spinning across a floor. But it’s hard to find a dancer and a space to do that on.
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Seung Hoon Park.Seung is a photographer who specialises in weaving two images together to make a slightly distorted image, which is also a type of multiple image. I like how he can take any normal picture, which normally would be dull and colourless, and makes it into something that I can look at for a very long time. Most of the images are famous places we have all seen pictures of before, but weaving the two images together makes it unrecognisable and dream like.
Seung won the grand prize at more than one photographer galleries around the world with his woven image design. He studied "Image Stitching" at Upen, which I assume is how he learnt how make this style of photography. |
First attempt, using multiple exposure (in photoshop).
Homework...
Here is a narrative image sequence telling the sad tale of a sad man or woman jumping out of a window for whatever reason and plummeting to their untimely demise. The previous time I took these photos it was too dark to make out much of what was in the photos, let alone the story behind the photos. I have done some basic editing to make it more sharp and colourful in contrast but bear in mind the pictures are meant to be bleak in nature witch i represented by the dull colours and the grey sky( which I waited for...).
Final Image
Falling far behind on coursework I only had the time to make one final image, which looked like it was weaved together in five minuets because, well it was.
Non the less, the idea still stands within, two slightly separate images intertwined to form a new ever so subtly different image, or at least that was the plan. The two images didn't fit together quite as well as expected and the two images occasionally overlap. But by no means is the piece a failure, just not as smooth and seamless as I hoped.(The picture was taken on a low quality camera but when I can it will be scanned properly.)
Non the less, the idea still stands within, two slightly separate images intertwined to form a new ever so subtly different image, or at least that was the plan. The two images didn't fit together quite as well as expected and the two images occasionally overlap. But by no means is the piece a failure, just not as smooth and seamless as I hoped.(The picture was taken on a low quality camera but when I can it will be scanned properly.)
If I get the chance I would like to take pictures of more people with a slightly more serious vibe, and possibly places, and weave them. I'm now fixated with the theme of two images weaved into one and I was annoyed that I ran out of time to experiment with it. Over the holidays Ill be taking more but I lack the materials to make the final piece itself. You were meant to see two different emotions in this photo, unfortunately as it was my first try I didn't manage to get the balance right between happy and sad. Overall I hope the piece is thought provoking and interesting to look at, with a little tweaking it could be so much better than this but only time will tell.
Evaluation of Multiple Images
I started by researching different types of multiple images and photographers, this helped me decide what my final image should be and how I could make it. Then I experimented with photoshop and mixing two images together, although looking good it wasn't quite final image standard. I did this by getting an image to act as a background, e.g stars or landscape; I then got an image of someone and imposed the background onto it. Then I experimented with cutting up images and weaving them together, I used this for my final image with a face instead of a place(the photographer I studies only did this with places). I decided to use two deferent pictures of the same persons face, but each picture was a different emotion. However, the pictures didn't line up exactly when I weaved them together. I would assume this is due to my lack of cutting skills when cutting the image into strips.
After that was completed I had an idea for a narrative sequence. Which was first falling falling from a window, without any captions it allows the viewer to experiment with their own ideas of why this person was falling out a window. As the speed of the fall increases the images become more and more blurred to immerse further the viewer. I also de-saturated the image to make the colours more dismal, hopefully imposing the feeling of the faller on the viewers. Although not too much.
When studying multiple images I came up with an idea and stuck with it, and although this limited the pieces I could create, it focused and refined the skill I was interested in; and working like Sueng Hoon Park will no doubt appear in the future. Although I will experiment with landscape instead of faces next time.
After that was completed I had an idea for a narrative sequence. Which was first falling falling from a window, without any captions it allows the viewer to experiment with their own ideas of why this person was falling out a window. As the speed of the fall increases the images become more and more blurred to immerse further the viewer. I also de-saturated the image to make the colours more dismal, hopefully imposing the feeling of the faller on the viewers. Although not too much.
When studying multiple images I came up with an idea and stuck with it, and although this limited the pieces I could create, it focused and refined the skill I was interested in; and working like Sueng Hoon Park will no doubt appear in the future. Although I will experiment with landscape instead of faces next time.