24th March 2014
Display Idea – Scale.
Another way of displaying my images would be one or two life size or larger than life sized images.
This idea would work best if I take a high resolution photo for the background image. This would be needed to blow the image up to a suitable size. I am thinking of photographing a breath taking forest or harbour view.
I will need to test the resolution of images using a projector. If my high resolution images don’t retain detail once the scale is increased I will need to create images with a higher resolution to create the ultra-precise level of detail I’m aiming to accomplish with my final prints. Once I find a resolution which works for purpose I could commit them to final print to complete my vision.
24th march 2014
Display Idea – Series
After editing the set of images in the previous post and thinking ahead about the nearing degree show I am beginning to wonder about how I am going to display my pieces. I am still contemplating the acetate idea however I am beginning to wonder whether to display them as a series.
Have the models in the same position but on different backgrounds in a row of a set of say 6 images. This is to emphasise that the images have been edited as I have put them in such neutral backgrounds some people may just assume they are unedited images. Having the same images on a range of backgrounds will make people look and wonder how all the images have been edited so precisely. Hopefully adding to the uncanny effect and linking back to some of the ideas I touched on in my dissertation.
15th March 2014
Lizzie and fee background
Here are a few images I have been working on for now I have ignored the slight lack of perspective and tried to make them look as natural as possible in their chosen backgrounds. I have done this by adjusting the hue and saturation as well as adding shadows accordingly following the lines of shadows already cast in the picture.
10th March 2014
Unusable images
The images in this post are unusable for the intentions I have, they don’t look right to my eyes due to technical errors in my work which I am working towards being able to remove completely in future images. Perspective has been my worst enemy in the creation of the majority of my failed pieces although in this instance that has not been the case. I now understand the full importance of pre-planning every aspect of the production process I should involve with this medium of art.
One of the models fingers is slightly covered by the green screen meaning that when the green screen is edited out the model is left fingerless and pasting that image onto a new background looks odd and unrealistic due to the models body being incomplete.
4th march 2014
Vanishing points and perspective
After finally figuring out how to remove the greenscreen I was then able to easily play around with a few images trying to get them to fit into different scenes. However, with some of the models positions it was difficult to get them to fit in the background this is because of the vanishing point of each picture was different.
I then watched a tutorial on vanishing points and attempted to fix my images using the techniques shown in the video.
As you can see from the images, I haven’t managed to fully master this yet as the models still look stretched and distorted across the scene. This can be solved with proper pre-planning and shooting the models to fit the intended environments.
