Final Photoshop Image.

To create my final photoshop image I took a close up picture of my eyeball. I also took a picture of me taking a picture of myself in the mirror. I then opened both images in photoshop. Firstly I cropped the picture of my eyeball so its more focused on my eye rather than the area around my eye. I then cut out the picture of me and my camera using the magic wand tool. I then shrunk the image of me and the camera so it would fit into the pupil of my eye. I then used the eraser tool with an opacity of about 60 to erase the edges and to create a smooth fade rather than a bold outline. I then used the spherize filter to create a fish eye effect, this was to try to get the image in the pupil to appear curved, like the eyeball itself. I then set the layer inside the pupil to about 50% transparency. 

Storyboard of my stop motion

To create a storyboard of my stop motion I simply added a selection of still shots from my animation into photoshop. I then resized them to fit 6 images across the width of the page. I used the grid tool to make things a bit easier. Here is my storyboard:

My Stop Motion (with sound)

stop motion for school from rob brown on Vimeo.

How I created my stop motion animation....

To create my stop motion animation I took a series of pictures of me in different positions of frontflips and 360s and such. I ended up with just over 60 photographs. I then opened every photograph in photoshop and roughly got rid of the background using the lasso tool and the delete button on my keyboard, this made cutting the pictures out alot easier and saved ink :). I then printed all of my pictures and cut them out, I also printed out my background photographs. Then I opened Adobe Premiere and connected the video camera to the computer. I then set up my backgrounds and positioned the camera. Then I introduced my cut out images to the background and clicked on 'grab frame' on Premiere. I clicked 'grab frame' every time I moved or changed an image. Once I had all my frames captured I then saved my animation as a video file. Then using the 'split clip' button I 'cut' the video in several parts so I could add different effects to improve the quality, I mainly used slow motion as some parts were too fast.

Once I had my video how I wanted it, I decided to make some music. I did this by finding the sounds I wanted and shortening them and mixing them in 'Windows Movie Maker'( because its a whole load simpler than Premiere). I decided I wanted slightly comical music as my animation isnt overly serious. I then simply imported the video into Movie Maker and overlayed the music on top of it, I then saved it under a suitable name.

Photomontage

I researched Martha Rosler and her photomontage series that she does. I particularly liked the 'Bringing Home the War' series and decided to have a go at one of these myself.
I took a few images around my house to use in my photomontage. Most of my motage has been created using the lasso tool and the add and subtract from selection options.

This is my final photomontage:

I quite like it and think that it is quite like Roslers photomontages. Overall im really happy with the outcome.

Joiner

This is my joiner, inspired by Hockney:

I researched a bit about David Hockney and his 'Joiners' I had a go at one myself.

I took a series of pictures to used to create my joiner. I cut parts out of the image out and pasted them in the new image. I used the distort tool and changed sizes and angles of the layers to create something a little bit different. Overall I quite like the outcome of my joiner.

Examples of stop motion animaton

This is a really good example of stop motion animation.



This is another example of stop motion animation but not as good as the first one.



An obvious example of stop motion animation is MORPH

Another try at stop motion animation

I found doing the last stop motion animation fun and quite easy. So I decided to have another go, this time with more pictures.

CLICKY!!!!!!!!!!!

Having a go at stop animation,

Firstly I took a picture of a Coke can. Then I crushed it a bit and took another picture. I then did this twice more.
Then I went into photoshop and opened all four pictures. Then I got stages 2,3 and 4 and copied them into image one, keeping the background image (image 1) locked. I then resized the image to 600pixels by 450pixels. Next I went to 'file', 'save for web' and clicked 'animate' and set the frame delay to 0.2 seconds. I then clicked save and viewed it and it worked. :D

(Okay that didnt work at all. However this link should work. CLICKY )

Stop Animation

Stop motion (also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using clay is described as clay animation.

example of stop animation: (which didnt work so its gone)

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.