Katie Scruton experimented with the technique of multiple exposure photography to create images from photos taken at concerts. Despite her original idea not working out as planned, she was able to quickly come up with new ideas and produce multiple unique images using online tutorials. Her final photos combined existing concert photos to represent her discovery of new bands and feelings through seeing them live. While limited to using her own photos, Katie is pleased with the experimental results and ghostly effects achieved through her multiple exposure process.
presentation which contains of my evaluation where i have critically analysed my old work and new work, as well as comparing to professional work which has been created.
7. I feel like I realised my ideas and intentions pretty quickly and well. Even when I realised that my original idea wasn’t particularly
going to work out, I quickly thought of some other ideas that I could use that linked to my original planning ideas of Discovery
and Finding Something New, whether it be a feeling or band etc. Despite this, I have managed to produce many different
Multiple Exposure images and all of them have impressed me and improved my skills with Photoshop by using online tutorials.
However, to create some of the images that I did, I tweaked the tutorials a little bit by changing a section of it of only doing the
first few steps. For my final photographs, I was influenced by my pre existing images of concerts I had been to and the fact that
I had discovered these bands and their music and enjoyed them enough to spend more money by buying their albums and/or
seeing them live, potentially creating new feelings, whether it was toward the band, such as obsession, or if it was a new feeling
of happiness or disappointment etc. The images I created are a more exciting take on what already existed and some of them
look like echoes from the past. Compared to other Multiple Exposure images I looked at, mine are very unique and have more
filtered effects to them and not just the usual black and white scene shaped into the outline of somebody’s head. I am glad that
my original idea didn’t work out because I feel like I produced some work that was even better.
All of the images that I used my own photographs to produce have a ghostly and different. It seems almost as if there is a time
lapse happening and they’re being captured in the image. It also has the effect of a long shutter speed, capturing longer than
just 1/100 of a second etc. The strongest part of my work is that it all came together and the images worked when put together.
I could also experiment further by putting different images together and using different effects so I could create a lot more
images than my original idea would let me. However, my weakest part was the fact I was limited to Multiple Exposure as a
technique and I couldn’t expand into Hockney montages like I claimed I would in my planning because they were pre existing
images that I worked from. I tried to crop the image to create the original image in smaller parts and then create them into a
montage but it didn’t work for me. My original idea would have allowed me to use different techniques alongside Multiple
Exposures.
There was quite a lot of technical aspects to create the final versions of my images. I learned some of these skills through a
tutorial online about Multiple Exposure. On some of the images I did my own method by layering 2 or more images and then
lowering the opacity between 32% and 64% to get the Multiple Exposure effect. The tutorial taught me a different way to create
a similar effect whilst adding a filter at the same time. From there I went to adjust that method to fit what I wanted for the image
I was working on. There was nothing very technical about taking the original image, just the focusing because they were taken
on my iPhone 4. The post production of my images were the most technical aspects of the process and also the strongest. I
learned the method off by heart so that I could quickly produce other images with the same style but maybe change the filter
between Darken, Overlay, Multiply and Lighten.
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8. I could have maybe improved my work by being more prepared for certain ideas to not work like I wanted them to so I
could move straight onto my next idea instead of wasting time trying to think of what to do and whether to do a different
technique altogether. Also I could probably do more techniques if I had a contingency plan as I wouldn’t be using old gig
images that had no real plan behind them apart from catching memories. Despite this, I feel like they created some
overall pieces that I am more than happy with. Maybe if I went a gig with intentions to create experimental photography
pieces I would have probably focussed more on getting good images and different styles etc. This way I could create
many more images and styles instead of being limited in what I do. Despite all this, I am happy with the work that I
produced and it turned out better than my original idea.
In all of my own images. There are a lot of straight lines from the lights and the stage sets. There are also lots of different
colours, also from the lights, especially the distant, layered images. Mixing them all together makes for something
colourful and interesting. On some of the images, they are colour mixed with greyscale so it becomes half and half. In all
of my images, there is a contrast of colour and a contrast of elements from the different images mixed together. All these
elements of my work could be developed to create more interesting images especially using the lights and such.
The brief I was set was to produce 3 images using experimental techniques we had learned about all based along the
theme of Discovery. All of my own images showed scenes from concerts that I had been to. This fitted the theme as all
the concerts made me discover new bands, feelings and more. The technique I have used is called Multiple Exposure. I
chose to use this style because some of the examples that I saw online looked really good and inspired some of my
ideas.They are experimental as they were created by testing out different tutorials and general messing around and
experimenting on Photoshop. The image that is rotated with half of it in green and half in black and white was created
from following the first few steps on a tutorial and then changing one of the layers to black and white. Another example is
one of my final images, adding three separate images of distant stage shots and merging them together. The final
product ended up looking like there was more people there than there would be (but with good effect) and it added more
lights, colours and contrasts.
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