David Hockney. Research

David Hockney works with photography, or, more precisely, photocollage. Using varying numbers of small Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Because these photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work which has an affinity with Cubism

 His photomontage workk appeared mostly between 1970 and 1986. He referred to them as "joiners". He began this style of art by taking Polaroid photographs of one subject and arranging them into a grid layout. The subject would actually move while being photographed so that the piece would show the movements of the subject seen from the photographer's perspective.

Martha Rosler. Research

Rosler’s work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport. Most of her work concerns social issues. Rosler's career retrospective, "Positions in the Life World," was exhibited in five European cities and two museums in New York City. Rosler lives in Brooklyn, New York.

These are 2 images from her 'Bringing Home the War' series. They both show glamorous people in a war zane, which shows that some people think war is glamorous, but then there is the small reminders to show its not, such as, the the bottom one there are the dead people laying in the chairs

Compositing an image pt2 continued......

First of all, I cropped the background to make the image more focused on the boat rather than the scenery.
Then using the magic wand tool and the add/subtract from selection options, I cut out the boat and pasted it onto the background image, I then used the eraser with a soft edge and an opacity of about 30 to rub the edges around the spray from the boat to make them look more realistic. I then accidently rubbed out a bit of the front of the boat, but because the opacity was low it didnt do much and looks like a blur, so I left it :). I then used the magnetic lasso tool to loosly select the sky and right side of the image, and applied a motion blur filter with a pixel size of 10. Then I selected the trees and bushes on the left and set a motion blur of 2 pixels. I then touched up the image with the blur tool just to finish it off.

Compositing an image. pt 2

To Create my image by adding an object from another image, I cut out the car using the magic wand tool and the add/subtract from selection options. I resized the car correctly and created a copy of the layer. I then added a motion blur to the layer and erased some of the parts that werent neccesary. I then got a picture of a dust trail and cut it out using the magic wand tool. Then i used the eraser with about 35/40% transparency to make the dust look realistic.

Compositing an image

To create this image I took the background image and an image of a plane. Firstly I used the magic wand tool, using the add and subtract from selection tools aswell, to cut the plane out from its background. I then pasted it into the background in this image. I then copied the layer and added a motion blur to it. Next I erased part of the layer to leave a blurry trail behind the plane. I then added a blur to the background layer which causes the plane to be in focus and look alot more realistic.

This filter is called 'sumi-e'. All it really does is make the main part of the picture really dark, darkening the darker tones. I fiddled with the settings untill I got an image that I thought looked reasonably decent.

Filters - dark strokes

For this image I used the 'dark strokes' filter. basically I applied the filter and fiddled with the settings to make the dark parts of the image alot bolder. This filter also blurred the background a bit more which is quite good.

Filter - pinch

For the pinching filter I created a 'fish eye' effect. to do this I set the filter to 'pinch' the image by - 79%. Then I clicked 'OK'

The image I was left with has a 'fish eye' effect to it.

Filters - liquify

The filter I used here is the 'Liquify' filter which allows you to 'smudge' your image. Basically I just found a part of the image I wanted to distort or curl and used the filter to do so, by 'stretching' the image using the brush.

This is the edited image. I curled all the points on the wings and made the eyes distorted.

Editing using the colour brush

To create this image I used the hue/saturation tool to make it all black and white. I then used the colour brush and chose a suitable colour to colour the part I wanted in. For instance on the milk bowl I used yellow and reduced the opacity to about 50%.

I like this method of editing however it is quite time consuming and you have to concentrate alot to get the edges right.