What are Creative Portraits?
Creative Portraits are what types of things will surround the photograph and its only a single shot.
Double/Multi-Exposures
Double/Multi-Exposures is creating an illusion by layering images (Section of images), which are over the top of each other. This may be achieved by using the correct camera settings ,or using Adobe Photoshop also by creating layers and then using BLENDING OPTIONS and opacity control, by getting rid parts of layers to then reveal other parts of the image.
Examples of DOUBLE/MULTI-EXPOSURE PHOTOS
Above there are some examples of double/multi-exposure photos , these photos were taken from many different artists.
Artist Reference
A famous Man Ray Photo
Technical- The lighting in this image is a natural lighting due to no lights reflecting on the photo. The aperture was likely quite large with a low f/stop number. This is because the man is in focus but the background isn’t in focus . Moreover the shutter speed was most likely quite quick, I can tell this because there is not a lot of motion blur and the man is in focus, I think it is something like 1/120 or 1/250. The ISO is most probably low, something like 100 or 200. Due to no visual noise and it doesn’t have a degrading quality.
Visual- There is no colour due to it being black and white, however its quite a light tone due to the bright and natural lighting. The man has rough, old skin which brings a large amount of texture to this photo and furthermore because of the multi- exposure due to two face being reflected in the photo. This image appears 3D. The rule of thirds is followed in this image, this is apparent because his eyes and head are in the centre and most of his body is not present in the image.
Man Ray
Man Ray was a visual artist and he spent most of his time in Paris, France. He was an important contributor to the Dada and the surrealist moments. He was also a painter. He was Born: August 27, 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ,United States and Died: November 18, 1976 (age 86 years),6th arrondissement of Paris.
Examples Of His Work
My Double Exposure Photos
Contact Sheet
This my contact sheet for my double exposure photographs.
Image Selection
Above you can see above I used P and X to flag my images to filter out my worst ones from the ok and good ones, next I rated these images 4 or 5 stars as 4 being ok ones and 5 being good ones, finally I gave them the colour yellow or green, green being the best and yellow being good.
My Double Exposure Photos
This photo didn’t need to be cropped on the sides due to equal negative space on each side this will create a balanced photo. On the top and the bottom it needed to be cropped due to having unequal negative space. To complete this photo three layers very needed to complete the background. In two of the layers I have reduced the opacity to make a shadow of the portrait. By reducing the opacity it removes most of the photo, so it will become a shadow. That is what has happened in my photo. This is a part of Man Ray’s work which adds opacity, shadows and lots of double exposure.
By being cropped, there is equal negative space on the top and the bottom of the photo.
This photo used has used six layers. If less layers were used I don’t think this photo would work out. I have reduced the opacity to 32 percent, this is why the photo has a blurred effect in the foreground. This photo has gave me inspiration from Man Ray, I love the way he gave a distorted effect to his photos.
In the background, I have some stars that you can slightly see. To make the stars in the background I have made a slight shadow so these stars can be clear.
This is the same photo as above, I have cropped it due to both sides having to much negative space ,which will create an unbalanced photo. I have also cropped the photo because I want the subject to be centred in the foreground of the photo.
Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition is placing two images together to show contrast or similarities. An example of a Juxtaposition is matching colours of your clothing to something out in the wilderness an example of an artist doing this is Nikita Pirtogov.
Artist Reference
Nikita Pirtogov
Nikita Pirogov is a photographer, artist and a poet who was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1989. He studied in RGISI (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and has got an MFA from IED Madrid (Madrid, Spain). His works were exhibited in Russia, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Denmark, Latvia, Slovakia, Portugal, USA, Brazil, China, Cambodia, Fiji and South Korea and are in the collections of State Russian Museum in Saint-Petersburg, Russia and Gallery Image in Aarhus, Denmark.
Examples of Nikita Portogov’s work
These photos are an example of juxtaposition due to the photographer matching colours with the subjects clothing, hair and the background. These photos are opposites of each other.
My Juxtaposition Photos
These photos where edited in Lightroom using the filters BW11 and 05,this is how I achieved these final images.
Photo-Montage
Photo-montage is the process and the result of making composite photograph by cutting , gluing, rearranging and overlapping images to create new images.
Artist Reference
John Stezaker
Is a British artist who is thrilled by the amount of images. Taking classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustrations, Stezaker makes collages to give ancient images a original meaning. By adjusting, inverting and taking-apart separate pictures together to create unique new works of art, Stezaker explores the subversive force of found images. Stezaker’s famous Mask series fuses the profiles of glamorous sitters with caves, hamlets, or waterfalls, making for images of dark beauty.
This photo is one of John Stezaker’s most famous photos .It is called Mask XIV and it was created in 2006.This work follows a simple format: Stezaker covers an old and ancient publicity portrait of a film star with a postcard. The postcard is becoming the mask over the face, It opens a window into another space. This images will give different interpretations of people faces. The scene in the postcard could is reflecting the peace and tranquillity of the setting.
Above, His ‘Dark Star’ series is popular publicly portraits into cut-out silhouettes, creating an important presence in the place of the absent celebrity. Stezaker’s way of giving old images a modern place in life it will reach its height in the found images of his Third Person Archive: the artist has removed elegant , haunting figures from the margins of out-of-date travel illustrations. Presented as images on their own, they now take the centre stage of our attention.
Examples of John Stezaker’s Work
My Photomontage Photos
Contact sheet
This is my contact sheet for my Photomontage Images.
Image Selection
Above you can see above I used P and X to flag my images to filter out my worst ones from the ok and good ones, next I rated these images 4 or 5 stars as 4 being ok ones and 5 being good ones, finally I gave them the colour yellow
This is the original photo without being cropped. Below is the same photo but cropped. To complete and finalise this photo four layers were needed for this in the background , otherwise it wouldn’t be as effective because less layers would make an empty photo. In all four layers I have kept the opacity the same. I have had some inspiration from John Stezaker because I love the way he uses photomontage in his photos.
This is the same photo as above, I have cropped it due to both sides having to much negative space ,which will create an unbalanced photo. I have also cropped the photo because I want the subject to be centred in the foreground of the photo.
This photo above gave me inspiration from John Stezakars work. I have done this photo in light instead of dark. The original photo done by John Stezakar’s was done in the dark. My favourite photo of his is called Mask XIV, which was photographed in 2006. I love this photo because it includes the beautiful beach in the foreground then a portrait in the background of the photo. This work follows a simple format with a portrait and a photo of a beach. The picture becomes a mask over the face. Alternatively, by replacing eyes with a beach creates tranquillity and peace. This photo will need to be cropped due to negative space on either side.
This is the cropped photo. By cropping it the subject is much more centred than it was before.
El Lissitsky
EL Lissitsky was a Jewish-Russian artist and photographer , active as a printmaker, painter, illustrator, designer, photographer, and architect. He was Born: November 23, 1890 Pochinok, Russia. He died December 30, 1941 (age 51 years), Moscow, Russia. He is known for using Geomertic shapes and negative space.
An Example Of One Of His Photos
Suprematism is famous art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. It was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, around 1913, and announced in Malevich’s 1915 exhibition, The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10, in St. Petersburg, where he, alongside 13 other artists, exhibited 36 works in a similar style. The term suprematism refers to an abstract art based upon “the supremacy of pure artistic feeling” rather than on visual depiction of objects.
My Process For My Photo
This is the process I had to go through to create my photo below. In total I had to make 7 layers to create this photo.
I also used this bar to see how dark I wanted my photo .You can pick many different filters till you pick one that matches your theme.
My Final Photo
I added a target on the shoulder in the photo because it got inspiration from El Lissitsky and it makes the photo more interesting and it adds more detail to he photo.