Creating artificial joiners

I created this by using the marque tool and selecting boxes. I then create a new layer from this with Cmd+J (ctrl+J) and then using the move tool I slightly shift all the boxes to create a joiner looking image.





I then changed the brightness and contrast to make the squares stand out a little bit more. I darkened the squares slightly and took down the contrast a couple points.

Zoom Bursts

Zoom burst is setting the camera to a slower than usual shutter speed (1/4) and zooming in or out while the shutter is open creating quite strange vortex style images.

Here are some examples of Zoom Burst images.

As you can see the zoom burst images do tend to work better with lights as they create this light stream (like light painting) and if you use a flash to freeze one subject then zoom in or out you can get some very abstract portraits and night shots.

Here are a couple examples of some images I did. The camera settings are on 1/4 f.11 with 400 iso, I did have the aperture high because i didn't want the images to appear too blurry.

Double Exposures.

Double exposure is the technique in where you combine two images together. You can either do this in some cameras (mainly film slr's) or post editing using photo manipulative applications such as photoshop. How you create a double exposure in photoshop is overlaying the two images and changing either the opacity or the layer style.

Here are some examples of double exposures.

these are of portraits double exposed with landscapes or nature. I do like this because it can create some good textures on the portrait.

Shoot Planning:
Double Exposures

How i plan to do this is take two images and overlay the images in photoshop either by using the opacity to make the image look transparent.
I took the images using my phone while i was out and about and got two quite contrasting images. One of someone in quite a modern building and one of a closeup of a tree.

How I combined them is put this image into photoshop and then overlaid the image of the branches into photoshop and chose the overlay layer style to create a double exposure image. I then added an adjustment layer to brighten the image slightly.

I do like this image because the two pictures really contrast each other subject wise but I do think it could be better if it was taken on a dslr with more control over the image settings. I'd like to try doing double exposures with slightly longer exposures to create a little motion blur.

David Hockney's Joiners

David hackney created these collage images that he referred to as joiners. He created these by taking multiple images and glueing them together. He first thought of these type of images when he was painting and needed to take an image of the whole subject and used multiple images glued together. He realized these images are different and have a 'narrative' of their own.

Here are some examples of his work. as you can see some of the images are taken from slightly different angles and positions, this makes the image have a strange effect on the image making the perspective odd. I really like his work and it's a good way of capturing every aspect of the subject but still keeping a strange and unique way of photographing someone or something.