Brno Del Zou

 The set of photographs are all take as portrait at a straight on angle, which allows the models face to be the main focus point which is what Brno was aiming for .The tone of the photograph is quite light as there tends to be no shadow given off the body parts nor the face itself. The lighting used seems to be artificial lighting, which creates  a soft tone allowing the models body to easily be recognised. The background of these photographs are plain which allows the viewer to focus primarily on the distorted models face.

Here are some examples of his work

• who? Leandro
• Where? Sports field
• When? During the day- after schools- weekends
• How?  Get pictures of my brother whis

What Is Photo-montage?

Photo montage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that a final image may appear as a seamless photographic print

Mood Board: Examples

My first Attempt at Photo- Montage using Photoshop:

My Process:

As I mainly forgot to screenshot a long the way I decided to write out the process which I followed to achieve this image. Firstly although this took me over 45 minutes to figure out how to over lay layers and fade them out. Firstly i selected which image i wanted to use as the montage examples. Secondly i had to decide whether i would be using the same image or a different one when adding it over one another. I chose to stay with them same image as i was inspired by the artist Brno Del Zou and in most of his outcomes he sticks to the same image but just creates multiple layers. As this was my first attempt as a beginner i found it quite hard but In not too disappointed by the result. After having copied the image a couple times i decided to crop into certain areas of the face making another face but above another one. Therefore here i chose to crop parts of the eyes,mouth and nose to create a weird, distorted image. Then finally i edited the cropped areas by changing the opacity of each section by making it lighter giving it a transparent look.

The technical aspect of this image, when looking at lighting its quite dark, however there are some elements in this image that are put there to draw attention. For example the big eye in the middle of the forehead, giving it this aspect of abnormality and weirdness draws attention if you look closely you can see harsher tones of blacks and grey and then lighter mixes of white tones. This attracts the eye to look at areas that sometimes aren’t highlighted in normal room lighting. This image was also taken using flash hence why theirs a circle almost shape going around the face which just supports my point that the attention is drawn immediately to the face.

Visually, other than light, if i was to complete this image again, i would try to fade out the corners of the boxes or at least learn a way to blend them in a bit better as it makes a slight contrast with the additional background due to them being different tones of white and one slightly more faded.

The context behind the picture was that it was actually taken for the studio lighting section but as my chosen artist worked with portraits i decided to pinch one picture from here.

Here are some of my other attempts and experiments  at Photo Montage using more than one image:

Caravaggio- Deposition 

Caravaggio was born as Michelangelo Merisi in Italy around 1571. He was orphaned at age 11 and apprenticed with a painter in Milan. He moved to Rome, where his work became popular for the tenebrism technique he used, which used shadow to emphasize lighter areas.  Using this technique is what led Caravaggio into success as it added realism to his images. Caravaggio the colorful, sometimes violent street fighter but ultimately brilliant painter, applied an extreme form of chiaroscuro (light and dark) to his work and  was directly influenced by Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velazquez and Bernini.

Our class process to imitate the image:

Here are some of the best outcomes:

Liberty Leading the way- Eugene Delacroix 

We had a second attempt at tableaux photography with this image

The second image in my opinion was harder to re- create and copy as firstly we needed more people but in terms of lighting it was hard to pin point where we trying to focus. However these image have been focused on the center of the image which therefore has made the images come out darker than excepted. This image also took longer as we were trying to angle the light in the same direction as the image but having looked at the image now the light seems to be coming from behind the woman in the middle. overall the process of figuring out where to put lights and where to stage people was a better outcome than the image itself but our first attempt was a best outcomes.

These are the contact sheets i made from our class attempts:

In the examples below you can see I have drawn over the images.  have done this because some of them are under exposed therefore to dark so I am unable to edit it I have done that in (red) . Additionally if the image is too over exposed or under exposed i have decided to cross it off In (blue) .If the image is out of focus I have chosen to cross it out in (pink) Finally if the image I think has too much negative space behind it which makes the images look quite bland and boring I have crossed out the space in (white)

Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman was an American photographer who was born in Denver, Colorado. Her mother was Jewish and her father from a Protestant background. She took her first self-portrait at age thirteen and continued with photographed until her death. She went to a public school and then a private school from 1972 where she developed her photographic skills and became fully interested in the art form. She moved to New York City in 1979 ” to make a career in photography”. She sent out many portfolios of her work to fashion photographers but they did not lead her anywhere. Due to her failure, she became depressed and attempted suicide in 1980.

During the time of 1972- 1980 was when she made most of her photos most of which were black and white images including either naked women or clothes merging with their surroundings. She took all her images with medium format. She created over 10,000 failure images which her parents keep, otherwise the 120 images which have been produced are found by location and date.

After producing all these images and most of them being a failure, she ended up dying from another suicide attempt age twenty two by jumping out of a loft window in New York City. After her suicide, her father suggested that her suicide was related to an unsuccessful application for funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

In a exhibition in 1998, many people were very interested in her work and they had “strong reactions” to her ” interesting” photographs. Many people found her pictures inspirational.

Her work 

When looking into her work i noticed that a lot of her work was very blurred to hide the identity of people in the pictures. Otherwise, the models were placed in very peculiar positions, acting as if they weren’t in their normal bodies, almost acting as an escape. The fact that most of the models weren’t clothed also suggests that Woodman was trying to show the real them and not who they pretend to be behind their clothes and makeup.

Her creations…

Analysation image..

Technical analysis 

In this image we can tell the image has been taken with a wide depth of field as the image is fully focused in a natural light. We can tell that this is in a natural light due to the one source of light on the right hand side of the image from a high angle. Due to the natural lighting, i assume that the white balance was set to a daylight mode or shade mode. We can also tell the this picture has been taken with a quick shutter speed to allow the image to be fully focused.

Visual analysis 

This black and white edited image can be seen as helping to bring out different tones in the picture. The edit also provides more of a dark concept. We can see by the floor tiles that the image has a great deal of texture due to the dirty floor. We can also see that this image is in 2D, that there is no pattern in the image and can overall tell that it is very unique.

Conceptual analysis

When looking at this image i have drawn to the crouched lady at the back left of the image. Her choice of wearing all black adds a dark feel to the already darkly lit image. In the image she is covering her face with a white circle, this could have multiple meanings but to me it suggests that she doesn’t know her identity, who she is. The white circle is acting like a blank canvas and she is suggesting that someone comes and draws the ideal look on her face. This image has shown to be heavily related to ‘loss of identity’.

Contextual analysis 

Woodman didn’t release any of the images which are online today and therefore all the audience know is the location the picture was taken and the date it was taken. There is no back story to this image.

Street photography involves taking candid photographs of individuals on the street, without interacting with them or asking them to pose beforehand in any way. This results in photographs which display the subjects in in the moment, showing their natural poses and stances, and the genuine emotions they are feeling at the time of the photograph.

In order to experiment with street photography, I used participants that were available to me in town on an afternoon. I set my camera settings to a faster shutter-speed

The following are my final choices for the street photography images I have taken, after I have attempted to edit them in order to make the colors bolder and in some cases, lower the exposure.