ideas for final piece

These are my ideas and intentions. Throughout there is a reoccurring theme of butterflies, however I feel like as I begin the process of taking the photos and editing them, the butterflies could be interchangeable for something else. I'd like to have more than one of these as my final piece and have them as a series. I might make a small book or something and print them all off.

This photo would be inspired by Annette Messenger. The areas in colour wouldn't be there when the photo was taken but I would probably draw them on using photoshop or I could place a layer of acetate on top of the photo and hand draw it on, or even sew into the acetate. I feel more comfortable on photoshop so I think I'll probably just end up using that.

 This one is of a persons back bent over so the spine is visible. I've put butterflies on the shoulders but since then I've thought that it could be interesting to put hands there instead of butterflies. The idea of having a body shown slightly strangely is inspired by Edward&Me, a photographer I looked at earlier on in the topic.

This photo would have an element of double exposure.













This photo is like the pully eye photos I've done earlier in the topic, I'm going to edit this one further though by replacing the iris with a landscape shot.

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon painted people how he saw them (not literally) but you can see his thoughts reflected onto the art. He uses colours that could possibly reflect the person.

there seems to be a variety of paints that have been applied. This helps give the designed textures which usually look quite raw. I don't think he spent much time smoothing out the paint and instead tried to get everything in his mind onto the paper. When I see his paintings I don't feel sad or confused, more intrigued to know what was going on inside his head at the time.

Here is my own photo in the style of Francis Bacon, I created it on Photoshop using the liquify tool:

Hidden Identity

The idea of 'Hidden Identity' photography is to almost disguise the face and has some fantastic and strange connotations and effects. It can be as subtle or obvious as wanted, a light coat of paint to an eye peeking from behind a magazine, but different photographers have different reasons for doing this. It could be because they do not like who they are and want to hide not just their appearance but metaphorically shield their emotions, memories and personalities or it can simply be to take a good picture.
Here are some examples of Hidden Identity portraits...

Here are some of my own hidden identity photos taken with +Daniel Burgess 

I think that this picture is pretty cool, it's quite sinister and creepy looking due to the darkened surroundings and blacked out eyes. I did this using the burn tool because it does blacken areas but it also lets the colours blend together unlike the paint tool. As for most of the photos, I seriously upped the clarity which just makes it all seem a lot more hollow.

Before this photo was edited it looked pretty plain; the colours were meak and it was just a picture that you would sort of look at once and move on. However what is cool is the way that the wind is blowing the subjects hair yet it remains in focus. I think that the effect of the wind and the darkened background and lower vibrance makes the whole picture seem a lot more interesting than before. The way that the colours have been darkened almost to a black and white stage yet the colour of the lips and browns of the hair still stand out which is is interesting.

Despite this photo being seriously over-exposed, I actually like is and think the bright colours work. The colours on the face look quite subtle and compliment the blue of the sky. Even though it's really bright, the vibrance has been lowered so that the colours are actually kind of dark which is an interesting contrast. The dark shadows help to set the obvious difference between the extreme whites and make the photo seem a lot more intentional.

 

This photo's clarity has been taken right up which helps to emphasize each individual crease in the lips and give a definite contrast between the colors. The white pallor of the skin also brings out the lips and helps not to distract from them which is important. I like the amount of detail visible with such a sharp focus.

This image is really strange, I've edited the eye so it looks a lot bigger than the other and because of the shape of the eyebrow and other eye- it kind of works. I've put a filter on it to make it look a bit like a painting and that makes it seem a bit more abstract. I'd like to up the clarity though.

This photo and the one above are the same but further on in the editing process. I got the idea of using the dodge tool on the eyes from Daniel and I think it  was an extremely effective idea as it really gives your eyes somewhere to focus on. Instead of looking vaguely around the picture you look straight to the piercing eyes before examining the rest of the photo. I think that the colours (enhanced on PS) really compliment each other and stand out because of the B&W background.

Cultural Reference page- Colour & Films

Colour is fantastic and strange, colour is everything. It can tell us so much but at the same time the way colours melt and grow into one another can be seen as strange. As well as this, it's weird how we can judge so much just by looking at a colour (this is a very strong point in racism, but that's not what I'm going to be looking into)
Colour is an important part of everyday life, everywhere you look there's colour of some sort. People working in industry use it to their example, whether it be in film making, television, or a different art form, it has the ability to alter the mood of something entirely.
Colour is a very useful thing in posters and things for films, it can often tell us what to expect, the genre, content and feeling of the film can be judged right off the bat, it may not always be accurate but if used correctly it's a very effective tool.
In a lot of older action films, we can see a very fiery palette. This can reflect the heat of the fighting or often the settings of the film as they're often set in the hot south or areas of Africa and Asia.

 Here are two examples where yellows, reds and oranges have been used effectively and convey something about what their respective films are going to be like. They also use the merging of multiple images in a lot of these film covers which nowadays is a little tacky if not done correctly.

 I think that these two images show similarities to the type seen in old action film posters, especially because of the colours and double exposure.

Compared to action films, drama and psychological films tend to have a much colder palate, blues and greens as well as a sometimes faded feel to them. This gives a very bare feeling, very scientific, like deep inside someone's head.

 My version was done with brown eyes and bad lighting, I'd like to try re-recreating the Requiem For A Dream poster with a blue iris.

Brusho

Brusho is a form of powder paint that when put in water disperses to create cool patterns. You can paint the powder with water to create regular paint but after experimenting we found that it looked better when the powder paint was put into water.

This technique is really groovy and has an Aliza Razzel feel to it. It would be interesting to take them into photoshop and have these colours coming out of their heads like an explosion of the brain or something.

Experimenting with Photoshop (photoshoot)

This photo is just black and white, it's not very interesting but I like the lighting and shadows. I don't like how the focus is on the nose, it would look better if it was on the eye I think.

To create this image I took two photos and put them on separate layers. I set the top layer's blending type to difference which meant that in the areas where the photo overlapped, an inverted effect happened. The photo could show what's in a person and what they show like the genotype and phenotype of a human but sometimes they overlap and you see things you've not seen before.

I used the same double exposure effect on this photo except rather than choosing the difference blending mode I chose soft light. This created an effect that was similar to some of Edward&Me's photos. The double exposed faces are a lot fainter than the last photo, this makes it a lot more secretive, as if the two faces are what's really within the person but the person is trying to tame it. The black and white makes it quite melancholic, the emotive aspect is clearer in this one than the previous one because there's no colour to distract from the emotion.

With this photo I was just trying out new adjustments that I hadn't looked at before. Here I've applied a posterise effect which brought out some of the contours in the ace.

This photo hasn't actually been manipulated, just converted to black and white. The subject's face is all squashed and dented due to the velocity, they spun their head fast enough to pull the skin and create this effect.

This is an even subtler double exposure photo, it looks as if the other face has just been caught at a more define point. Really I just did the same thing I did with the three heads but with two heads further in motion.
I think this photo is quite representative of body disassociation, as if you're looking at yourself as a stranger but getting lost and confused. Not really very fantastic but quite strange.

I used the liquify tool in this one to pull the face down. It's my least favourite of the photos, I don't really like it at all but it just shows experimentation.

Here I've lowered the vibrance, saturation, and warmth .

The undersides of tongues have a really cool colour palate, the reds and blues I've made even more vivid by increasing the vibrance and saturation. To deepen the lines I've increased the clarity.

To make this photo I just reduced the blue and green channels to 0 which made it only red and black. It looks quite creepy, like something from an independent film poster. I like using a block colour with black because it creates a really bolding effect.