These are my favourite montages – physical and using photoshop

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MY FINAL HOME PROJECT IMAGES

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EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT

To start with I did a still life photoshoot in the studio:

The first photoshoot was groups of sea objects where I was able to experiment with different lighting/colours and the depth of field.

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I then focused more on single objects that I had a personal connection with.

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I then started to make digital edits:

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And physical edits:

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I then focused on displaying these images:

Overall, I am happy with how my project ‘HOME’ turned out but I do think I could have done a lot better and put more effort in to take my work to the next level. I think it was an experience that opened my eyes to the endless capabilities of photography while still letting me learn and explore the way I like to create and display my work. From making these pieces, I have learnt how to use a blog (where I have detailed each step of my journey), Photoshop, Lightroom, and explored new camera settings. I believe I will learn a lot from the project and take into account what I liked and disliked in each area when creating new projects. In conclusion, I really like the final pieces I created but I have a lot to learn and work on.

Physical:

Here are some images I printed out and used techniques such as cutting, ripping, taping, gluing etc to piece them together into a montage.

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Using Photoshop:

The images below show some images I compiled and layered next to/on-top of each other:

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Then I played around with the OPACITY on Photoshop to layer the images i a different way which gave them a more artistic and abstract feel to the photos:

From all of my edits these are my final images:

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What is new objectivity?

New objectivity is a German style of photography that started in the 1920s to challenge and go against expressionism. New objectivity often focused on the objective world rather than the more romanised and abstract ideas of expressionism.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

Albert Renger-Patzsch (June 22, 1897 – September 27, 1966) was a German photographer associated with the New objectivity. Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve. In the early 1920s he worked as a press photographer for the Chicago Tribune before becoming a freelancer and, in 1925, publishing a book, Das Chorgestühl von Kappenberg (The Choir Stalls of Cappenberg). He had his first museum exhibition in Luhbeck in 1927.

Examples of his work

Here are some edits I decided to make, I experimented with some of my photos by editing them in lots of different ways.

This one below is when I combined a few photos into one. Which I think turned out pretty interesting:

This one, I took three images and put them in three different columns:

I decided to make a 3D effect one, which I have done before so I was very familiar with it:

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This is my photo gallery of photoshop and Lightroom edits.

I mainly used layering techniques on photoshop to created different images. On the right hand side (the image with the shoes) i used four photos from the same angle and position however with different lighting and cropped different parts of the photos and aligned them up in the original background photo, creating an illusion of the shoes being different colours,

In conclusion, I believe I have done well in this still life project as I have never previously done photography. I have broadened my knowledge on photography and now have a greater understanding about cameras. During this project I have also learned how to use Adobe Light Room Classic and Adobe Photoshop which I enjoyed, as I am now able to edit the photos i have taken to make them more interesting and create more of a meaning behind them.

However, I believe if I could do better and this will be achieved as I get further into the course and improve my skills. For the next project I will be taking more photos leading to a wider selection that I can choose from for editing and my final images.

These are some images I took of single objects before editing:

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