Paul Smith

Paul Smith is a british contemporary and commercial photographer born in 1969. He takes his photos digitally and manipulates them in photoshop. He originally studies fine art between 1991 and 1995 at Coventry university and as part of his course he did a research project in contemporary art which included living in an Aboriginal reseve for 4 months. After that he completed a masters degree in photography at the Royal College Of art.  He photographed Robbie Williams for the cover of his single.

Task 3 Duplicating an Image

Today we learnt how to copy and paste a person repeatedly into the same photo. I photographed Jasmine and we went to the stairs to shoot. I took a photo of her at the bottom of the stairs and then in the middle of the stairs. On photoshop I used the magnetic Lasso tool to roughly draw around the edge of Jasmines body. I then used the quick mask mode and erased bits overlapping the photo and added around the edges that were missed. I then copied Jasmine and pasted her into the photo, but she was too close when we were shooting so instead I copied her and added her into the same photo and it fit better.                                                                

Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte was born in Lessines in 1898. Magritte's earliest oil paintings date from about 1915, there Impressionistic in style. From 1916 to 1918 he studied at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under Constant Montald, but found the instruction uninspiring. The oil paintings he produced during the years 1918-1924 were influenced by Futurism and by the offshoot of Cubism practiced by Metzinger. Most of his works of this period are female nudes. I find his photo manipulations below very interesting. 

Task 2: an image within an image

For this task I had to get 2 photos of myself and blend one image into another. I went out with Molly and she photographed me near a blacked out building. On photoshop I copied a piece of the photo with me in then pasted it. I had to shorten the pasted section and distort it until the section fit into a blacked out window. I also lowered the opacity to make it look better.

Task 1: half black and white half colour

For this task we had to get a portrait of ourselves and edit it into photoshop. I went out with Molly and Jasmine and stood next to a letterbox. On photoshop I edited the whole photo into black and white, and then I erased the black and white to make the letterbox in it's normal red colour, and the rest of the photo remaining in black and white. I found the editing on photoshop quite easy to do.

Introduction

Image Management:

We have 7 weeks to complete this assignment. We have to create one image, a fantasy landscape which should show all of the skills I would have learnt. Our aims is to understand how image manipulation techniques are used, to be able to digitise source materials, to be able to originate work using manipulation hardware and software and to present our own design outcomes. For our research we need to identify themes, research about artists and analyse our own photographs.