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For this experiment, I used the magnetic lasso tool to select the planes and smoke. I then changed the saturation and vibrancy, as I was attempting to create a realistic feel. I don not think it worked that well so I tried to do it again later on.

For this experiment, I also the magnetic lasso tool to select the planes and smoke. However this time I change the planes in to black and white, to mix colours and create a vintage edge. I feel this went better than the 1st, but next time I would make the planes smaller, as it looks a little edited and unrealistic.

For this experiment, I used the marque tool to select the part of the original photo I wanted and placed it in the window. I decided to do this photo montage as I wanted to experiment with perspective and view. If I was to do this photo montage again, I would find a tower, with either a bigger window or a door, as this would allow the sunset is bigger and easier to view.

For this experiment, I also used the marque tool to select the door of the tower, and placed it on the sun. This photo montage was yet again to experiment with perspective and view too. I really like this photo montage, as it came out how I wanted.

For this experiment, I used the photo montage from the previous experiment, and dropped it into the window. This came out the way I wanted them to.

For this experiment, I wanted to better the first photo montage I did. I felt this was experiment is much better, as I looks more realistic and life-like. I wanted to make the planes smoke to have the same colours as the sunset and reflect too. I did this by copying the layer of the planes and changing the layer style to ‘luminosity’, by doing this is reflected the sunsets colours. I then just erased the excess picture, so it blended into the background.

For this experiment, by hand, I cut and arranged the photos, in a way that represented liberation and occupation. I placed a picture of the sea in the background, to represent the liberation, as nature is free. Then all of the war figures relate to occupation, as they are in the army.

Photomontage is the process of overlapping 2 or more images to create one photo. This can be done physically, using editing software or a mixture of the both. “The Two Ways of Life” (1857) by Oscar Rejlander was the first and most famous photomontage. Rejlander had shown everyone this new style of art and he contributed to it’s popularity today. At first, photomontage was used practically for post cards or large events which could not be captured on film. Although the first recorded photomontage was in 1857, the style of photography peaked in popularity during WW1 when photographers from France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria and Hungary produced postcards showing soldiers on one plane and friends, family and loved ones on another. During WW2 photomontage was still very popular and its influence in propaganda was optimised in this time by the Nazi party and Joseph Goebbels. Photomontages being produced became very political for example from 1930-1938, John Heartfield used photomontage to create 240 “Photomontages of The Nazi Period” to use art as a weapon against fascism and The Third Reich. Hannah Hoch was another example of a photographer who’s photomontage work was heavily politically based. She too lived in Berlin, German most her life and a lot of her work support women and even contributed to the liberation of women during the Weimar republic.

Hannah Hoch

John Heartfield

I made contact sheets on Photoshop, and digitally marked any photos, with a circle those I wanted to keep and use, with a cross those I would definitely not use and delete, with a ? if I may come back to them later on in the project, I also left the rest blank and will save them for another time.

Here are the photos I will keep and use in my photo montages.

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