Photo Montage is the process and the result of making 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. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image-editing software. This latter technique is referred to by professionals as “compositing”, and in casual usage is often called “photoshopping” (from the name of the popular software system). There are many methods for combining images that are also called photo montage, such as Victorian “combination printing”, the printing of more than one negative on a single piece of printing paper, front-projection and computer montage techniques.

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Photo Analysis:

This image shows women putting on make up. The image has been split into lots of different segments and been move around and put back together. Each segment had the same amount of space between it. At a glance it looks like there might be two women doing their makeup, but the more you look at it the more people there seems to pop up. There is makeup spread all over the table in front of the women. The way that the segments have been arranged it gives the image a sense of movement. The lighting seems to be coming form behind the camera, and it is not too strong as there are not any strong shadows being made. The shutter speed was likely to be quite quick as the images are all in focus and the women seem to be moving, so the easiest way to have captured them was with a quick shutter speed. The white balance seems to stay the same through out all of the segments.