John Goto's Photography.
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Evaluation.
For this assignment we had to make a Fantasy Landscape thats consisted of multiple pictures taken on a digital camera (Canon EOS 550D) which would then be digitally manipulated on a computer using Adobe Photoshop to layer sections of each image on to a background photo.
We had to go and take landscape photos and subjective photos around Burton that we would use to layer on one another by using a digital SLR camera and a tripod to prevent camera shake. This was fairly easy as you could get the landscape photographs from round the back of the college and the subjective ones from around the town. I am please with how both sets of photographs came out as they were clear and had no camera shake on them so I had good photos to work with.
Editing the photos on to layers also went well as the shapes I wanted out of the subjective images were fairly easy to separate from the rest and could be placed where I wanted them on the main background image. However, I didn't like the bench that I placed in to my image towards the back as to me it looked as though it had clearly been photoshopped and didn't look realistic enough personally. My favourite part of the image was the balloons that were located close to the front of the image as they looked realistic and the edges were soft enough to help the realistic look whereas the bench has sharp edges where it hasn't been blurred or smudged so the bench looked edited on.
If I were to do this again, I would change the subjective photos so as there was a wider variety of things in the photograph as well as using objects that would look more realistic in the image. I would also take more care to blur the images in to the background so as the edges were softer and it blended in to the image better than it does now.
I would keep the balloons the same in the image as I liked that element the most and I personally think that was what turned out best. I would also use the same lasso techniques as I did before as it did well to remove the subject from the background.
The final outcome of my image was better than I expected because I didn't really have any ideas until I researched other artists such as John Goto who gave me inspiration for my final photo with his images and from there they developed as I went out to take my photographs where my ideas started to come together and I had a clearer idea of what I wanted to do. Although Goto's work was inspirational to me, there were elements of his work that I didn't like as much such as the sharpness of his pasted images which made me decide that I wanted to blur edges to make them look more natural than Goto's work.
Overall I am happy with my final Fantasy Landscape images as it is better than I imagined it to look and I am also happy that I decided to blur the edge of the subject as it gives the photo a more natural feel and they blend in to the image well. Although there were certain elements of the photo that I would change given the chance, I am happy with the outcome and would have a clearer idea of what to do if I ever had to do this sort of task again.
We had to go and take landscape photos and subjective photos around Burton that we would use to layer on one another by using a digital SLR camera and a tripod to prevent camera shake. This was fairly easy as you could get the landscape photographs from round the back of the college and the subjective ones from around the town. I am please with how both sets of photographs came out as they were clear and had no camera shake on them so I had good photos to work with.
Editing the photos on to layers also went well as the shapes I wanted out of the subjective images were fairly easy to separate from the rest and could be placed where I wanted them on the main background image. However, I didn't like the bench that I placed in to my image towards the back as to me it looked as though it had clearly been photoshopped and didn't look realistic enough personally. My favourite part of the image was the balloons that were located close to the front of the image as they looked realistic and the edges were soft enough to help the realistic look whereas the bench has sharp edges where it hasn't been blurred or smudged so the bench looked edited on.
If I were to do this again, I would change the subjective photos so as there was a wider variety of things in the photograph as well as using objects that would look more realistic in the image. I would also take more care to blur the images in to the background so as the edges were softer and it blended in to the image better than it does now.
I would keep the balloons the same in the image as I liked that element the most and I personally think that was what turned out best. I would also use the same lasso techniques as I did before as it did well to remove the subject from the background.
The final outcome of my image was better than I expected because I didn't really have any ideas until I researched other artists such as John Goto who gave me inspiration for my final photo with his images and from there they developed as I went out to take my photographs where my ideas started to come together and I had a clearer idea of what I wanted to do. Although Goto's work was inspirational to me, there were elements of his work that I didn't like as much such as the sharpness of his pasted images which made me decide that I wanted to blur edges to make them look more natural than Goto's work.
Overall I am happy with my final Fantasy Landscape images as it is better than I imagined it to look and I am also happy that I decided to blur the edge of the subject as it gives the photo a more natural feel and they blend in to the image well. Although there were certain elements of the photo that I would change given the chance, I am happy with the outcome and would have a clearer idea of what to do if I ever had to do this sort of task again.
Artist Research - John Goto
John Goto was born in Stockport, England in 1949 and is best known for his photo-digital artworks. He now works as a professor of Fine Art at the University of Derby after his successful career that started in the late 1960's when he studied Fine Art at St. Martins School of Art, London where an interest in the narrative forms of European cinema lead him to the medium of Photography. From there, he produced a series of photographs in 1977 of culturally significant portraits of young people in Lewisham that was entitled 'Lovers Rock', however, the photo was not published or exhibited until 2011.
I have looked at Goto's work and you can see that he has taken many photographs of different subjects and digitally manipulated them so as they all become one image. To do this he would have to use at least 2 images and cut our the focus point that you want and paste it on to the other image and may have used techniques such as blurring and smudging to make the pasted objects seem more realistic.
I like Goto's work because it is creative in the fact that it is fairly obviously digitally manipulated and it gives the quality of child-like and fun to the photo. This work is also similar to our task of producing a fantasy landscape as his work is a creative fantasy as him images are very unrealistic.
I have looked at Goto's work and you can see that he has taken many photographs of different subjects and digitally manipulated them so as they all become one image. To do this he would have to use at least 2 images and cut our the focus point that you want and paste it on to the other image and may have used techniques such as blurring and smudging to make the pasted objects seem more realistic.
I like Goto's work because it is creative in the fact that it is fairly obviously digitally manipulated and it gives the quality of child-like and fun to the photo. This work is also similar to our task of producing a fantasy landscape as his work is a creative fantasy as him images are very unrealistic.
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