2. Doug Prince
Doug Prince uses a more traditional and historical method, he does this by creating images
that are beautiful but also meaningful, this is helped through the use of a camera, dark room
and also a computer. His career has worked been going for 50 years that with practice and
produced art that has been shown around the USA. Doug would have gone through the process
of Photoshop to make the image, to do this he would had to take an image of a living with a
plain white floor. You need a plain floor so that the object that merges into it will will not be
contrasted by strong colours but instead have a similar to colour to the object. For example in
this image they have purposely made the image black and white so that the sand could easily
merge into the plain grey floor. You can do this my using hue/saturation method where you
can turn the saturation right down so the image turns into a black and white setting. The way
in which Doug creation the floor/sand effect was first of all he put the sand image on top of the
living room image, to merge them together like this he would have used a ‘Polygonal Lasso
Tool’. This tool is very simple because you have to produce a shape around the area you want,
once you have done that then let go of the Tool, this will automatically give you a circular
shape. Once you have made your shape then you have to make sure to remember to put in a
certain ‘Feather’ amount, this comes up on Photoshop when you touch the Polygonal tool. The
feather is used to merge both layers together so it looks realistic and unique on the image. The
use of juxtaposition that Doug uses helps to create new images that produces different emotion
and also bring nature and ruin together which gives a completely look on life and photography
altogether. After picking the type of feather you want, on my image that I did I chose 300px
because the fading was beautiful from the chairs and looked more realistic than 400px and
200px, 400px had to much fading on one side which meant it didn’t look real enough and
looked more like an image on top of the other. Whilst 200px had both sides having a lot of
fading which meant that 300px was the perfect balance on the floor. Finally you press on the
second layer which had your sand image on, you right click and press ‘Layer via copy’ once
you have done that then you will get an image like Doug's and mine.
Doug’s work has been shown in several art museums, most of his work has been shown in
arty cities like New York, Chicago and Washington. These museums are:
• Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• The Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
• The Art Institute of Chicago.
Whilst having his work shown in these museums he has also been teaching in universities to
broaden people’s awareness of digital methods and what his experience has towards his work.
He has worked for universities around USA since 1970’s.
My Version
3. Jerry Uelsmann
My Version
Jerry Uelsmann work is contemporary and traditional pieces of art, this is true as he has used
techniques such as using a black room and also using video and posters to show his work to
the public. Jerry has published 24 books from the time of 1970-2011 e.g. the books that he has
published are ‘Dances with Negatives 2011, Meditation Navigation 2007 and Referencing art
2003.’these books either show of his latest art whilst others e.g. Museum Studies 1999, this
will help university students understand the meanings of his art and how he produced them.
This would have come in handy for when he worked at the University of Florida in
Gainesville 1960, he kept working there until he became a graduate research professor in 1974
which meant he could explore the way of art. He is now retired teaching but still producing art
like this today.
To make this image you would first of all get a stream image and a women lying with a black
background, this has worked well in Jerry’s image as the black has really darkened into the
rocks to get a sense that she is physically lying there gracefully. To make this image realistic
you can produce it on Photoshop, to do this you can get two different layers and put them
either on Image>Adjustments>Hue/saturation or Adjustments>Black and White. These effect
when put together will get the same black and white edit. After this you press ‘Command L’
this will produce a box called Levels, this box helps you to make the white marks in the
picture lighter whilst the dark shadows can become darker. You would use the level box only
on the stream image first this is so you can highlight the darker and lighter parts of the image.
When I had a go at creating this effect on Photoshop I found that my image wasn’t a good
quality for producing the lighter and darker shades but when doing the same effect onto the
women I realised that the colours worked really well together and merged so that it looked like
she was lying amongst the water. Once your happy in getting the light and dark shades correct
then you can move onto the feather effect again for this image you would use another feather
e.g. my teacher used a 50px feather which worked well and made her body move into the
water, after trying different feathers I picked 80px this is because the body fitted well within
the stream and merged perfectly like the Jerry Uelsmann image. The order in which you
produce a feather effect is Polygonal Lasso Tool>Feather>click on stream picture layer>right
click on the women>layer via copy, then you will get an image of a women going into a
stream.
An example of products that Jerry has used for his art are writings, portraits, publications and
clippings, through all of this he has now done 359 fine art prints throughout his 30 year career,
this is a massive amount of work that has been shown in fantastic museums around the world
like:
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
• Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.
•The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
4. Michael Bosanko
Michael Bosanko is a contemporary, nontraditional photographer who started his works
when he was travelling to Greece in 2004.
When he was doing his travels he found that
taking images of the moonlit landscape was
more difficult than expected, this ended meant
that his image became useless. His images
being ruined was a positive thing because
when he looked over them he realised that the
light produced shapes. This meant that he
could move his camera to draw with the moon
light, this sparked his career. When practicing
constantly he knew that if he kept his camera
on the tripod then he could go out and draw his
art with objects like a torchlight (which he
used for his first ever art pieces).
When researching Michael I found that not everything was exact to the point, when he takes his images they are always different because of the
environment that he’s in, the exposures that he tries to use are also different because some can be only seconds to hours to get that accurate
picture. What he uses to create these images are e.g. bulbs, fire and torch lights. There will be an area in which you can take an image, the only
way it will work is if you put it on a long enough exposure so that it captures all the light from the outside, if the camera was on a fast exposure
then it means it will only get a little bit of light and then it’s too dark, whilst if it’s on a long exposure then the camera will try grab as much light
in as possible and the objects that are moving in the image also. The example of the bike shown here would have been on a really long exposure
estimating over two hours long because the longer the exposure the less you can see the person creating the light object. This is also because it
grasps the light from the sky and captures the light reflection onto the road, this shows that the camera has been exposed long enough to find
these details in the road. How you make it is that he leaves the camera and then starts drawing for example with a bulb and makes the shape that
he wants to make, if you look closely you can see the movement in his feet that shows that the camera has picked up his movement as well as the
bikes. Michael doesn’t use editing for his images, instead he uses either resizing so that it fits on the internet and also water marking just to
protect his images so that people don’t copy or use them themselves. By keeping his images pure and simple it really brings out the beauty in
them.
Michael Bosanko’s has worked for clients in different sections of the media, the examples are:
• Billboards, TV adverts, film, global campaigns, magazine editorials and album covers. He has worked for Companies like Orange and British
Airways which a large companies that will really raise awareness in his work.
What’s good about his work is that he can pick any location and country and he can still make a beautiful images, the example of locations that he
has been in are:
