Creating photo montages

In order to understand more about photo montages, i created multiple montages using adobe Photoshop. When creating my montages i used Eugenia Loli as a inspiration for my images as i though her photo montages were very unique ( separate page on her work).

In this experiment i wanted to create a piece which was similar to Eugenia Loli’s. I liked the overall concept stylistic approach that she created and in order to create the same stylistic picture i used a layering technique. I kept my image very colorful just like Loli’s as it gives a child like look to the image which i quite like. I used the galaxy background as my first layer which i didn’t edit at all. My second layer was the man in the image which i edited out of the original image by using the cut out tool. This tool cut around the man in the picture so that i was able to drag this section out of the picture to layer one. Once the man was placed how i wanted it on layer one i then focused on layer three where i used the same technique to cut the blue hand out of an image. The blue hand originally came from the artist Steven Spangler who i had gained inspiration from in the past and i though that this image would be a good fit for the theme i was creating. My other aim for using the layering technique was to create a noticeable 3D technique which is successfully did. My final step of this montage what editing the brighness to higher than it originally was which has made the image stand out more.  I am overall very happy with how this turned out.

 

In my response to John Stezaker, i decided to create my own photo montage. First of all i used a picture off the internet of two people in offices which i then edited using Photoshop. When editing this image, i created a layer each for the fire explosions. I then cropped each original picture to the part of the fire i wanted and used the ‘move’ tool to move the layer to layer 1 ( office layer). Using the ‘brush’ tool, i then made the fire into head shapes. My reasoning for making their heads into fire explosions is due to that being the mind set that they have. Their heads act as the disaster which they are putting into the world.  This photo montage is used to express my negative viewpoints towards the government and the way that their minds cause our misery.  As seen their is a similarity between mine and Stezaker’s work as we both edited different images onto people faces.