Day: 22 April 2019

“Marko Köppe, collage artist from the north of Germany, loves art, the classic art, like Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, the modern classics, like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and also modern art like das Bauhaus and all its influence: Kurt Schwitters, Mark Rothko, Giorgio Morandi, Olafur Eliasson, Banksy, and so many more.

Nature, music, and especially life are important influences of inspiration, and together with the famous German proverb: Everything develops in the eyes of the viewer!, he starts to play around with the style, aesthetics, and contrast between pictures—tries to create something different, something new, that hits the eyes and through them the brain, the imagination, fantasy, the viewers’ internal feelings, wishes, and thoughts.”
https://flexiblepersona.com/marko/

Examples of his work:

Crazy Woman - Lisa Lara Bella by Die blauen Reiter, via Flickr — Crazy Women – Lisa Lara Bella (Marko
Köppe)

My Plan:

For this project, I will be using photos from previous photo shoots and putting images of buildings from my New York trip in June 2018 on their faces. I will also taking some images from Google Images like butterfly wings, birds, leaves and other things from nature and also putting those on the photo. The concept of these photo is that I am taking things that I saw on my journey through New York and things you would see if you went on a walk through Jersey. I also wanted to show the contrast of New York and Jersey, as one is very modern and industrial whereas the other is more natural and neutral.

Photos I Will be Using:

Final Images (Process of Editing):

First I got my original image
Then I got my photo of New York buildings and used the lasso tool to cut around the models face

Then I got a photo of moths wings from Google Images
https://pngimage.net/moth-wings-png-3/

I then cut out the wings to leave one and placed it on the side of the models head
I then duplicated the wing and flipped it onto the other side

I then got a png of a hedge from Google Images and placed it onto my image
http://www.sclance.com/pngs/hedge-png/view-page-3.htm

I then used the magic wand tool to get rid of the white background, then I moved it

I then got a photo of old looking stop sign from Google images and placed it on my photo
https://www.shouselaw.com/traffic/stopsign.html

I then used the polygon lasso tool to get rid of the background
I then placed the stop sign in the middle of the hedge and wing

I then got a png of a chimney from google images and put it on my photo
http://www.stickpng.com/img/miscellaneous/chimneys/chimneys-on-roof

I took all the images from above, turned them into black and white, adjusted contrast and then placed them in different spots

I am really pleased with how this photo turned out. I really like how the moth wings look like ears, and I like the contrast of the black and white images and the coloured images.

I really like the way I put the washing line on the hand. I think this photo is edited really well and I am happy with the outcome.

I really like how this photo turned out. I think I placed everything really well and I think I edited it quite well.

For each photo I tried to capture Marko Köppe editing style and I am really happy with the outcome of these final edited photos.

-This photoshoot will be done over a period of time, half term.

-I plan to take vernacular photos of the members of my family who’s photos I collected from their youth and picture of people my age like my sister and my friends. I plan to document the journey of youth. I want to show that the generation are completely different but are the same. They are different in what they wore and sometimes what they do but are the same.

-The lighting will be natural and artificial lights depending on whether I’m inside or outside.

-I think I will use my phone because it’s easier to take personal images of someone where they don’t have a big camera in their face.

-Where? When? Who? The days I’ve planned to take photos are when I go to my friend birthday meal and the cinema and when I see some of my old friends for a meet up and chat.