Montage: Activity 4

Activity 4
-Find two examples of photomontages that are either from a commercial source or from a fine art background. Discuss in what context they have been produced and what techniques they share with political photomontages.
-What messages, if any, are communicated through these photomontages and how effective do you think they are? Consider different ways that each image could have been tackled by the artist and come up with an idea for ‘another in the series’.

Joachim Beyrowski 

I like this image a lot because it shows that a swimmer is doing laps on the road. That is highly impossible but it looks so real the way it was edited. The road image looks so nice and the road itself looks like its wet and has rain drops of sorts. It then looks like they edited in a puddle and a part of a swimmer in mid stroke. I think this was well edited. I like this photo a lot and I think its super cool! I think they could add another series with swimmers, swimming in random places but mix it in well together. Or even a walking on water type of thing would be way cool!

Joachim Beyrowski

This image is way cool because I can tell that there were many layers put this all together. He entered the kids in the image and had them standing or mid coloring. He also had an image of the street while people are driving and walking, etc. Then he entered in images of chalk drawings. I think this is a well edited image and was well though out. I think another series could be put together of kids drawing in random places. Like on the wall of China. You know something on those lines would be way cool. 

Montage: Activity 3

Activity 3
As editors exercise their ever-increasing power over information control, what limits would you impose on them as to the extent to which they can manipulate the photographic image?
Devise a series of guidelines that will control the release of images that have been constructed for media use so that the public is aware as to the extent of the manipulation.

I would edit photos to the point of where it isn't offensive or creates issues. I would also make it across that it isn't real by adding a bit of touches so no one got confused or I wouldn't go beyond editing so people thought it was so real. If it looks like that moment would actually occur or not. I would put text on the image to make the image look not too real so people wouldn't get confused or be convinced to easily. I think the other one that was edited looks real but to a point where it does look out of place, so I know not to take it too seriously. The people following the man look like they're walking on the carpet but the carpet looks edited and fake. So little details like that can help. 

Montage: Activity 2

Activity 2: Blog Entry
Find two examples of political photomontages that are either from a historical or contemporary source.
Discuss in what context they have been produced and how effective you think they communicate their intended message.
Discuss the techniques that have been used to assemble the examples you have chosen and offer alternative ways that the artist could have put over the same message.

Peter Kennard

To me this image means that pollution is slowly taking over and destroying the earth. I think the person used a black background and another image of earth and buildings with pollution. I think they took half of each image and blended them together to look like the buildings and pollution were coming from the earth. I think this image speaks volumes and was well put together.

Unknown

Looking at this, it seems that the man in being portrayed as horrible man. That under him, when he takes his mask off he is a wolf, an evil looking wolf. Wolves can be represented as getting close to people for their own personal gain. So in this photo it shows that this man is evil, spiteful, and mean of sorts. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Montage: Activity 1

Activity 1: Blog Entry
Briefly discuss why you think painters of the Victorian period might have criticized these early photomontages and why the pictures were popular with the general public. (This technique of piecing together separate images to create one picture is again very popular with both artists and the media).
What two reasons can you think of for this revival of an old technique?

I think these photos were possibly judged because they are strange and what can come off as maybe inappropriate to be in an image. But thats what I'm just assuming. I think they were popular though because they were something different. They were something people had never seen before and was interesting to look at and think of, "is there a story behind this?" "What made the photographer want to do this?" I think its cool that we can take separate images and make one whole by placing them together. So I am excited to do this project and learn how to do it and work with it.

Portraiture and Studio Photography: Activity 3

Activity 3

Collect four portrait images with two to five subjects.In at least one image the subject should have been placed in the foreground.Comment on the arrangement of the subjects in relation to the camera and the effectiveness of the design.

Jason Baker.

This image has four subjects. This is a family portrait. I think it is so cute because they are both looking at each other and happy. It looks like the photographer got up a little, above them to get this image.

Ty French.

There are two subjects in this photograph. Theres the girl and the telephone booth. They are perfectly place besides each other which I think is really cool.

Ty French.

There are about five subjects in this image. There is the four people and the rock symbol behind them. The two are getting married and the pastor is with them and their child. What I like about this picture is how their placed, we get to see the ocean and the sky with them in the bottom corner.

Ty French.

This image has two girls in the foreground. They are framed by the entering into the stairs, so I think thats sort of cool. The two subjects are perfectly placed in the middle of that framing and of the entire picture.

Portraiture and Studio Photography: Activity 2

Activity 2
Find four portraits that demonstrate the different ways a photographer has framed the image to alter the design and content. Discuss the vantage point, depth of field and subject placement in all of the images.

Chrisitian Stoll. 

This picture was taken at a high angle. I think the photographer framed this image well and did so because skyscrapers are tall and from the bottom you could of gotten a some what decent image of a part of the building but by going to the top we can really see the of the buildings from the floor. 

Yuni Sidqialubis. 

This image was taken at ground level. I think the photographer used this method to show the level of the swan clearer. I think it was smart because any level would of made a better image but the ground level made sense because the photographer got a clear shot of the beak and its right in front of us and it gives the entire shot a cool angle. 

Yuni Sidqialubis. 

This shot was taken at low level. It wasn't taken straight from the ground but it wasn't taken above or at the tip top of the eifle tower. I think the photographer captured the image well because were able to see a lot of the tower but not from the normal view of just looking at it. We can see it like were under it. 

Adrian Limani. 

The photographer captured this shot that as the person was jumping that it would make them look like they were sitting on it or jumping over the moon, which I think is really unique and cool. Its defiantly different from what we normally see and I think the photographer altered the image to bring out the effect of the person and the moon. 

Portraiture and Studio Photography: Activity 1

Activity 1

Look through assorted media, magazines, internet and collect four portrait photographs. The environment should be a key feature in two of the four images.Describe the subject’s character in each of the images. What can you see within each image that leads you to these conclusions about the subjects’ character.

Thomas Nutzl.

(magazine)

This is Lana Del Ray. She was in a section of a magazine for Grazia. From the environment, it looks like she was in a studio area with a plain background behind her and some lighting that brightens up her image. From normal shoots that I've seen in magazines, Lana looks natural and beautiful. Her make up (if she has any on.) looks very natural and doesn't make her or the entire photo look fake. She seems to be a person who is true to herself and just normal.

Mario Testimo. 

(magazine)

Taylor Swift was on the cover of Vanity Fair. Its not that she looks fake in this but it looks very staged. She's a singer and an artist, so they have the piano to bring that part out of the person she is. Which is a good theory and idea to bring that out to show that. They also made her look very sophisticated and rich. I don't know if I can determine the person she is from this shoot but the person I would think she is sort of just a regular model pose.

Dorothea Lange. 

(internet)

This is a very famous photograph called "The Migrant Mother." It was taken during the Great Depression and shows a mother and her three children. If I had never seen this picture before and didn't know its history, I would suspect that they are poor and struggling. From the image I can see that though the mother is struggling she is a support and comforter of her kids. You can for sure see that as they are crowded and lay on her. I can tell that this mother is strong for her kids. 

Sam Shaw. 

This is the Iconic image of Marilyn Monroe's flying skirt. It is said that Monroe was shooting a movie when she was walking over a vent type of thing and her skirt flew up. Many photographers were all surrounded being pervy and get a good story for the world to see. It ended up becoming one of the most popular portrait photograph's known. I could think that Monroe is shy and embarrassed a bit and she doesn't want people to see her under garments. But you can see behind her a creepy man looking and smily. While another man is trying to capture the shot as well.