Idea: The main idea that I had for this shoot is to use my shoot photographs to create a series of images in which I follow the style of John Stezaker and Alma Haser by physically manipulating portraiture images and creating the same collage look at Stezaker with the same physically manipulation and destruction style as Alma Haser.
Research Influence
For this particular shoot, I was influenced by both John Stezaker and Alma Haser. Their work involves manipulating physical images to create a new composition. I aim to do this within this shoot using different coloured backgrounds and creating different abstract style compositions that fit with the theme of juxtaposition.
Image Bank
Improvement Required Images
AO3: My best images are following in the style of John Stezaker and his ability to take 2 images and create a new composition that demonstrates juxtaposition well. In this image I have chosen an image of a person and an image of a landscape and have combined them together to show a juxtaposition between types of photography but also a juxtaposition of emotions.
AO3: My best images are following in the style of John Stezaker and his ability to take 2 images and create a new composition that demonstrates juxtaposition well. In this image I have chosen an image of a person and an image of a landscape and have combined them together to show a juxtaposition between types of photography but also a juxtaposition of emotions. For this particular image, I experimented with ways to present my idea, and I chose to use this broken up method.
AO3: My best images are following in the style of John Stezaker and his ability to take 2 images and create a new composition that demonstrates juxtaposition well. In this image I have chosen an image of a person and an image of a landscape and have combined them together to show a juxtaposition between types of photography but also a juxtaposition of emotions. I decided to use a circle shape in this final composition.
AO3: My best images are following in the style of John Stezaker and his ability to take 2 images and create a new composition that demonstrates juxtaposition well. In this image I have chosen an image of a person and an image of a landscape and have combined them together to show a juxtaposition between types of photography but also a juxtaposition of emotions. This particular image I decided to use the style of John Stezaker and turn the image upside down to create a face shape.
The main idea that I had and the main reason for choosing juxtaposition was that I was able to create interesting images that I would be able show fit the theme of juxtaposition. In this particular shoot, I decided to use my sister as a model and capture the juxtaposition between her feelings, looks and emotions. I decided to do this by recreating images in the style of John Stezaker and Alma Haser combined. I decided to print the same image twice and physically manipulate one of the image by crumpling the paper and experimenting with burning the images and then scanning the 2 images together to create one composition. I feel as though this represents the style of both artists well and also shows a clear theme of juxtaposition in my work. Some of the final images are faded, which fits the style of John Stezaker in the way that he uses old fashioned photos to create interesting compositions.
The images that I retrieved from my time exploring the theme of Juxtaposition turned out well and I felt that overall, I captured it well and related to some of my artist influence. On this particular shoot, I felt as though that I did relate more to my chosen artists, which were John Stezaker and Alma Haser as I took 2 seperate images and put them together in an abstract way to create one composition.
AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.
For all of the above images, I used a CANON EOS 1300D. I feel as though I am now more confident about shooting in manual mode as I know how to control aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings to be able to capture different images in my own environment to show juxtaposition. For most of these images, the flash was on as I was creating studio like images with the help of my flash and natural lighting. The settings for the camera were F5.0, ISO 1600 and shutter speed 1/200.
In order to improve on the images that I took, I decided to import them into Photoshop in order to enhance them and improve on their composition and the way that they have been shot. In order to do this, I used the healing tool to perfect some aspects of the image but also to ensure that when they are printed they look as good as they can be so they are ready to be put together to create a new composition. The screen grabs that I have selected show how I used Photoshop to create juxtaposition images. To do use this, I used the computer scanner and 2 separate images and then importing them back to computer files to show as my final pieces.
Photoshop Process
The artist research that I did was extremely helpful in the fact that I was able to gain an understanding of the different artists and their different styles. Knowing about their style and about any movements they may have been involved in helps me to interpret their work and understand what they were thinking when they took a certain image, and also helps me to recreate these images in my style. Researching various images that they have created helps me to try and recreate these images and then shooting my own images in their style. For example, my research on John Stezaker and Alma Haser, and researching the images of this photographer helped me to understand juxtaposition and what types of images I could create, both in this shoot and progression to the next. I am able to then still link to their style but also reflect my own style in the process. Additionally to this, I was able to get a better understanding of juxtaposition photography and how you can use this type of photography to capture different aspects of the composition. I feel as though I did relate enough to the photographer as I have tried to follow in their exact style using my own images. In order to improve I could have experimented more with different styles of cutting out my images in different shapes, to create a more varied style in my work.
AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.
Overall, I think that I have produced a good series of images inspired by my research and image bank for my fourth preparatory shoot for juxtaposition. The final images were created by manipulating them physically and converting them back into a computer image, as well as experimenting with Photoshop drawing and drawing tablets. I think if I was to improve on this, I would experiment more with different styles of cutting out my images in different shapes, to create a more varied style in my work.
Progression
For my exam pieces, I aim to continue this style of work, but using different styles and combining the styles of both John Stezaker and Alma Haser to create images on juxtaposition using physical and computer manipulation. Additionally, I intend to combine my previous shoot ideas and use both portrait and landscape images together to create compositions based on someone and their favourite places or memories, and juxtaposing between portrait and landscape. I intend to use different coloured background to create more varied final pieces.
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