The highly experimental work of Ibris Khan and Stephanie Jung uses overlaying techniques to add a strong energy into their work. The strong use of texture give both artists work a very crowded effect. Their work evokes a very intense form of energy. The huge amount of layers creates a very provocative sense of texture. I have used my own photos to recreate something in the style of their work.
I took a photograph from my AS exam coursework that fitted with the theme of environment, it also incorporates the contrast of man made with natural. The above first image is me working in Photoshop. I first duplicated the layers and re positioned them slightly. over each other. I then brought down the opacity of each photograph. This created this blurred effect. I found I needed to make the above layers opacity lower to let layers underneath show through.
After this is found another image from my AS coursework featuring a long exposure of town overlooking buildings. I started by duplicating the layers and repeating the process for the second. I then cropped the image to hide areas that weren’t covered by another layer. I then changed the layer options such as to ‘subtract’ or ‘overlay’. I made different variations using the layer modes available to give different effects. I also changed the opacity of different layers to make others show through more. For the first one featured below I used the divide feature which created a grey feature over the top of the layer. Colour burn on the last photograph created a very rich red colour as well as darkening the photograph. Underneath these three images is where I used a variation of changed layer modes but in particular exclusion to create an intriguing textured effect. This is probably my favourite out of the selection for its subtle variety of colour in the background and unusually texture from the roofing in the foreground. It is also a lot more disjointed and out of rhythm compared to the first few for example how the moon in the first three all follow one after another and in the last one there is a lot more energy and sense of disruption instead of the neatness of the first few.
