Welcome to Image Manipulation!

Welcome to the Digital Post Production Blog!

This blog is a supplement to our class time and is a resource for ideas and information relating to manipulated photographs and how they are created and interpreted.

* This blog does not replace the syllabi or the assigned readings for this class.

It does gives examples and links to information discussed (and even some not mentioned) in class. Feel free to browse and to ask questions about any of the material covered here.


Artist GoWatanabe's hauntingly beautiful digital portrait is just one example of what can be created in the age of digital photography.  We will discuss it and many other artists and ideas during this course.

1.Diptychs and Triptychs

1.Diptychs and Triptychs

Definition: Diptych and Triptych are terms that traditionally refer to paintings of two or three panels, which are usually hinged . We borrow the terms to refer to photographic prints that have two or three photographs on them.



















Sally Mann











William Wegman









David Hilliard - triptych example












John Coplans



















George McCarten - diptych example

More examples by George McCarten

Assignment #1: We will be using either two or three images for our first assignment. No matter how many photographs you use, be sure that each one is well composed, exposed and imagined photograph first. Then it can be paired with one or two other equally well made photographs to make a successful Diptych or Triptych.

The images shown below are example of artists who use multiple photographs.

• Try looking at just 2 or 3 of any of the images of The Bechers or Duane Michals and imagine they might work as a diptych or triptych.







Studies











Bernd and Hilla Becher








Narrative










Duane Michals



Bill Durgin

2.Photo Montage and Enchanted Landscape

PHOTOMONTAGE




Mark Boellaard

• When possible I've included links to more images, click on the artist's name to be linked to more images.

PHOTOMONTAGE
These images make no attempt to fool us. They make dreamlike combinations of images, that are cut out and placed over one another.





















Hannah Hoch



















John Heartfield



















Cliff Evans



















Herbert Beyer

Steven Meisel for a Balenciaga ad campaign.






























Joan Fontcuberta

In the “Landscapes of Landscapes” series, Fontcuberta feeds the software fragments of pictures by Turner, Cézanne, Dalí, Stieglitz, Weston, and others, forcing the program to interpret a variety of landscape masterworks as “real.” The contours and tones of these painted and photographic landscapes are transformed into three-dimensional mountains, rivers, valleys, and clouds.

http://www.amillionyearsoflight.com/site2/index.html

While we cannot do anything quite like Joan Fontcuberta's in Photoshop, it is an interesting idea for the creation of Landscape imagery.

ENCHANTED LANDSCAPES
The images in this section are more subtly blended. We recognize that they are "odd" or not quite right, but we have to investigate to figure out how. Often times we can't fully decipher what has been done.

Filip Dujardin















ILKKA HALSO












Tom Chambers





















Simen Johan

Jeff Wall

Oliver Wasow

Jerry Uelsmann

3a.The Digital Portrait - Part 1

Below are some of the images of photographers I have shown in class. Feel free to look up any of these artists for more examples of their work. Where possible I have included links to their sites.

Oleg Dou

Loretta Lux

http://www.lorettalux.de/

Daniel Lee

http://www.daniellee.com/

Aziz + Cucher

http://www.azizcucher.net/home.php

Class of 1988 Women (top)

Class of 1988 Men (bottom)

Jason Salavon

4a.The Decisive Moment

Since the 4th shooting assignment 'The Indecisive Moment' is a response to The Decisive Moment as characterized by Henri Cartier Bresson, we start with some information about the concept for which Henri Cartier Bresson is most famous.

"The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... . In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif." — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier Bresson

--> A COLLECTION OF BRESSON'S IMAGES:

http://www.afterimagegallery.com/bresson.htm 

 

A flickr discussion group with articles and images about Henri Cartier Bresson and the Decisive Moment.

4b.The Indecisive Moment

“The traditional photograph records a single instant from a single point of view. Since digital photographs are not limited by the same constraints as traditional photograph, today’s photographers may combine several instants in a single frame, taken from several points of view” Jonathan Lipkin from Photography Reborn

All of the images below use some form of layering and blending in photoshop to combine multiple moments in time, creating an Indecisive Moment. This changes the way you shoot your images and will hopefully open up avenues for new ideas. A lot of the success of this assignment is dependent on how well you shoot your photographs. Using a tripod will allow you to shoot multiple photographs of the subject while the background stays the same.





























Kelli Connell








Anthony Goicolea
















Mathieu Bernard-Reymond Go to the intervalles pull down menu on his site.



Wendy McMurdo

Mike Kelley



















Cornelia Hediger
* This artist's site didn't work well (images wouldn't load) in Firefox on my computer - try Safari or other browser if you have similar difficulties.
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The images below use multiples of people in conjunction with a mirror to create very different effects than simply duplicating a person in the frame.


















Mary Frey













An image from flickr that uses a similar mirror trick

Past Student Examples













photo by Rachel Miller



















photo by Rachel Elliot

Below are two older multiple image photographs, from the days before Photoshop. They were created using photographic printing techniques, but are nearly identical to photographs being created today using Photoshop.


" Five-Way Portrait of Marcel Duchamp" by unidentified photographer


Henri Toulouse-Lautrec by Maurice Guibert