Assignment #2: PolyScape Composite
Turn in to Dropbox:
folder: lastname_a2
lastname_a2.psd
*include all asset files
Conceptual Considerations:
Your task is to create a composited image in Photoshop that tells a subjective story. This new landscape will be a psychological one. It does not have to tell a literal story, but will be wide open for interpretation.
In addition to possessing a photographic quality, you will also incorporate graphic design elements.
Technical Considerations:
- Canvas set-up to print: 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi (or LARGER)
- Choose 1 shape. (This shape will be a dominate component in your layout)
- Choose 1 color to behave as a dominate component in your layout.
- Choose 2 landscape images to combine (1 of those must be Your Original Photograph)
- Choose 1 subject (a character or object that acts as our area of focus)
- Repeating elements (this can be a shape, or the subject, or a pattern)
Use each of the following:
- dominate color
- shape
- scale
- photographic elements (at least 2 sources)
- graphic elements (lines, bold negative space, shapes)
- a color pallete that supports your dominate color choice (monochromatic, contrasting colors, or purposeful color shifts)
Tutorials:
Abstract Geometric Photo Collage
Combining Geometry and Photography
Shapes Tutorials (psd essentials)
Sphere Tutorial (video)
"Abstract Effect" (photoshop lady)
On Behance.net:
Philip Hodas
Andreas Levers
Mike Winkelmann
Kirill Maksimchuk
Contemporary Collage Artists:
David Delruelle
Eugenia
Loli
Julien Pacaud
Mario Wagner
Tim Spelios
Bauhaus Collage (1930's):
Lazlo Maholy-Nagy
Max Ernst
Kurt Kranz
Compositing/Collage Surrealist Artists:
Shana & Robert ParkeHarrison
Maggie Taylor
Jerry Uelsmann
Teun Hocks
René Magritte
Erik Johansson
See also:
Juxtapoz Magazine
For Video Links:
Jerry Uelsmann
his work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJkhUloCnqc
darkroom techniques:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsVDXjthsaU
"Process and Perception" : a lecture by Jerry Uelsmann
(in conjunction with "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyR65PeAEEg
Maggie Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyYzr8HNoN0
a longer tutorial session with Maggie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICPz_l3TRb4
Videos from Jerry & Maggie: This is not photography
Jerry Ulesmann - exerpt: https://youtu.be/bIlPYqsXuTg?t=17s
Maggie Taylor - excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNBnvVfMBIY
Full-Length Documentary (give it time to buffer): https://vimeo.com/69911353
Erik Johansson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc0vhSseGk4
his YouTube page:
https://www.youtube.com/user/tackochgodnatt