Joiners

After editing my images in lightroom, I wanted to try out the concept of making a joiner out of my collection of images. I wanted to follow a similar concept to that of what David Hockney does.

Contact sheets:

After selecting all of the images I wanted to use to compose my joiners, I chose one image from a joiner group and edited it to my liking. Once that was done I synced up the edited settings so that every image was edited exactly the same.

I then colour coded certain images into separate groups as to keep the joiners all together and to not get any mixed up.

Process of making the joiners:

In order to make the joiners, I needed to open up on one of the images included in the joiner and then select ‘Automate’ and ‘Photomerge’.

After selecting those I would need to click ‘browse’ and select all the images I would like to combine as a joiner. After selecting ‘Ok’, it would merge all of my images into a joiner.

—- Failed joiners —-

—- Successful joiners —-

3D Joiners experiments

After making my 2D joiners, I decided to take the oppurtunity to experiment with the finalised joiner a bit more and to make them into 3D joiners. There were many different types of 3D formats I could choose between so I took the time to go through a few of them to see if any were to my liking.

How to make a 3D joiner

Results of the 3D joiner experiments —–

One of my joiners as a soda can
One of my joiners as a ring
One of my joiners with a drop shadow to make it look more 3D
One of my joiners as a sphere
One of my joiners as a sphere with more depth
My joiner sphere with the original in the background
My joiner being put in a panorama
Another joiner with a pattern overlay
Another joiner which I adjusted the brightness and contrast for on each layer

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