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Artist Reference – David Hockney 

Who is he –

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Image analysis –

Hockney took hundreds of photos at a crossroads in the USA, using individual images from all around the wide environment and putting them together to create something that looks much different than the original scenery. The image is well lit and outside and saturated, using a fast shutter speed to create sharp images using a low ISO (most likely 100) due to the well lit environment creating a warm image with lots of contrasting colours due to the style of photo created. The road in the middle of the image is used as a line leading to the blue sky, mountains in the distance and the wide open space. I believe that the road signs in the image have been used to make you feel like the passenger in a car driving down a long road in out of civilization where really, where the image was taken the area looked nothing like this description.

Where image was taken –

Quote –

“You must plan to be spontaneous.” – David Hockney 

Contact sheet

selection process

as you can see above I used P and X to flag my images to filter out the bad 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. I will now edit these images that I selected and present them bellow along with the raw images.

final images

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Evaluation

These images above have been taken and edited into panoramas and joiner images, doing this helps to expand on the image and almost explore an entire different story than what it would have been, instead of just a snippet of the landscape you get the entire thing which has helped to show contrast between the built up man made landscapes and creates a juxtaposition between the dramatic sky and the man-altered reclaimed landscape creates tension in the environment as you can’t enjoy the natural view without seeing the urban landscape around you. Although the focus in this image is the natural landscape the buildings draw your gaze away from it. The ISO on these images is likely low as it is in a well lit environment in daylight.