In this post I will be editing the three best shots which I chose from my 2nd photoshoot in Adobe Lightroom, so that they can be used when creating my final pieces, I used a variety of different editing skills when manipulating these photos to show a diverse range.

1st photo experiments –

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2nd photo experiments –

3rd photo experiments –

Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman’s work, even though her career was very short, has had an extreme impact on the methods of making connections between portraiture and mental health. I liked her work especially as you could never be sure on what the model actually looked like as they were almost always burred. Her use of long exposure times and unusual body movements from her models create an intriguing product that I plan to take aspects from using Adobe Photoshop.

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My Adaption Process

I produced these images by starting with the original colour photos in a folder in my media drive. These originals looked too grainy for what I wanted them to be. They also needed to be in black and white as this is what my artist reference displays, so I imported them into Lightroom to make some minor adjustments.

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I then decreased clarity, increased exposure and contrast and made the photos black and white. I also slightly cropped both images. They now looked less grainy and were easier to work with as the effects and tools I was wanting to use would look better, the smudge tool in particular as it is quite tricky to work with.

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The final images came out quite well, even though some areas look quite rough due to the harshness of the smudge tool. Regardless, I am still happy with the final result.

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Photomontage

History of Photo-montage (Europe 1910 onwards)
A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.
Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)
Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky
Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism

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Pop Art developments (USA and UK 1950s-)
Photomontage was also used to great effect by various Pop Artists in the mid 20th Century
Pop art was a reaction to abstract expressionism and was similar to DADA in some ways
Many Pop Art images and constructions tackled popular consumerism, advertising, branding and marketing techniques
Pop art also explored political concerns such as war, and gender roles too

Some of my work in this project was inspired by Raoul Hausmann, a photomontage photographer. Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry, and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I.

The time period he produced in was the same period my project is based on. I made photomontages using my own photos and some using photos off the internet. I used the same background for each one, a photo I took of a wheat declaration from the red cross which my grandad kept after being freed from Santo Tomas.

I tried to show a small timeline from left to right, because the dates are marked at the top from the start of the occupation to the liberation of the Philippines.

This photomontage by Hausmann influenced mine as I focused on covering the eyes and mouth in my montage.

I focused on a newspaper timeline in this one, using cuts of different newspaper articles at the time.

Diana Markosian

Diana Markosian is an modern American artist of Armenian descent, working as a documentary photographer, writer, and filmmaker.

Diana Markosian (born in Moscow, 1989) takes an intimate approach to her photography and video storytelling, in work that is both conceptual and documentary.

Her projects have taken her to some of the remotest corners of the world, and have been featured in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue Magazine. She holds a Masters of Science degree from Columbia University in New York. Her work is represented by Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris, France and Rose Gallery in Los Angeles, California.

When photographer Diana Markosian met her father after a 15-year separation, he said he had been looking for her and opened this suitcase filled with newspaper clippings, undelivered letters and a shirt for her brother’s future wedding. “Items my grandfather put aside in hopes of meeting us one day,” she says.

A clock is ticking loudly, drawing attention to the silence in the room where Magnum nominee Diana Markosian and her long-lost father sit across the dining table from each other. “What were you thinking about, when you wrote the letter?” asks Armenian-American photographer Diana. Her father replies, “I don’t want there to be pain. I want there to be love.” Love is what Diana and her father have been working towards after being separated for 15 years, before Diana tracked him down in Armenia. She captured the meeting in a video as part of a multimedia project, where raw feelings of abandonment, longing, awkwardness and distance are palpable.

This very personal style of photography has earned Diana countless awards and mentions on ‘ones to watch’ lists, as well as a Magnum nominee membership. However, it wasn’t always on the cards that her work would take this direction. She didn’t discover the key idea that shaped the way she tells stories until 2011, when she jotted down a passage from the 1995 independent movie Smoke by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster.

This photo inspired some of my photos. The photos of old belongings and pictures link into my work.

Claude Cahun was a surealsim photographer from france.

Claude Cahun was alive from 1884-1954.

Cluade Cahun was born lucy Schwab to a middle-class Jewish family in France, she later moved to Jersey with marcel more and disguised as gender-neutral non-jews.

she was most known for her self-portraits where she portrayed many different personas.

For my first final image I chose 3 seperate images (shown <—-) that were taken from different angles that I believe would work with my idea. Then I exported the chosen images and took them over to photoshop.

Secondly, I went through the 3 images and cut out multiple rectangle and square parts that I believe would work with the main image.

Then, I gathered all the separate cut-outs and started to place them on the main image and put them in positions that I think work effectively.

After deciding where all the cut-out should be placed I played around with photoshop effects and tried to make the cut-outs work well with my main image.

I applied a stroke outline on each cut-out and made the outline a white colour and then thought it would look better if the photo was in black and white so I used the black and white adjustment.

After applying the black and white adjustment I realised that it made the image look a lot better and worked well with the cut-outs and the white stroke outline.

I believe my final image came out very well and I am happy with what I have done. This idea was inspired by the identity photographer Brno Del Zou who has made many images similar to mine.

Firstly, I chose my favourite headshot which I think would be the most effective when making the image, and exported it from lightroom into photoshop.

Next I chose another image from lightroom and made sure it was a photo of the models side profile so I can create this image effectively.

Then I used the quick selection tool to select around the models face and removed the face just so I have the outline of the side profile remaining.

Next, I got my main image and put it behind the Layer 1and positioned the face to line up perfectly with the outline of the side profile.

Finally, I changed the colour of the whole image to black and white. Also I used the paint brush and smudge tool to get rid of the rigid outline and made the side profile more smooth and realistic.

Final Image:

The idea from this image came from a Serbian photographer named Boogie. He inspired me to make the image black and white which has improve the image massively compared to colour. Also, Boogie does many portraits which are all in black and white which I believe is better than using colour.

Here is a contact sheet with some of my images I have used the 5 star rating system to show the better images that relate to the identity of the island.

the artist reference I have chosen is Andy Le Gresley who is most famous for his landscape photography based around Jerseys coast lines and land marks. this shoot was inspired by him to show the identity of the island through the different experiences it has been through.

I went L’Etacquerel fort , it was built in 1836 to prevent French from landing near the east side of Bouley. now this fort is a symbol of a stage of the islands life that has past now.

This image shows where one of the traversing gun platforms this. I increased the shadows to create a darker sense to the image to represent a when the had to fight to protect this island.

Andy Le Gresley took this image which as a full frame of Grosnez castle, which was built in 1330 and commission for the farmers to take rescue in event of French invasion. so his image shows the heritage of jersey through this image. I like that he has taken this image from a lower point of view with the pink in the foreground.

this is a full frame of the full fort. I decreased the tint to bring out the green that has over taken the walls of the fort to represent the islands growth since it was no longer needed.

In this post I am going to gather a few of my headshot portraits that I have taken and edit them using a few photographers as inspiration to my edits. This type of editing will be used in my final piece because I like the way black and white portraits work out.

Shirren Lim inspired edits:

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Sam Contis inspired edits:

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More black and white edits:

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