Multiple Images
To me, multiple images is about creating series' of images and putting them together to create something new and more exciting. Multiple images could be done by using multiple exposures, or taking different images and merging them together. I don't think there is a limit to what you can do when creating multiple images. I think that making these images helps to bring out the most creative sides to people and can help to enhance your skills to the best of your ability.
This image was made as part of a homework task which was to create a narrative image to do with multiple images. To get this idea, I looked at images on Google which had multiple images and then short quotes at the bottom to represent the image. As I was standing there with my camera, thinking about what ideas I could possibly come up with, I took a picture of my feet in my shoes on the ground just as something to occupy the time as i thought. And then as I looked at the image I had taken and I thought about taking more of the same thing but each with their own differences.
So I took more images of my feet but on different backgrounds and then I decided to change my shoes and also take these images on different backgrounds and by the time I had finished with the fifth pair, I had taken 70 photographs. I uploaded the images and put them together in a collage with the images randomly arranged so there wouldn't be patterns and it wouldn't be too organised. Once I did this, I came up with the quote, "Everywhere you go, your feet will always guide you. They will never leave you, and their prints will stay behind you.". I typed this onto the corner of the collage and then I had my final image. |
Multiple Images Proposal
So far, the type of images I have researched is the type where a series of images has been taken to tell a sort of short story - narrative images. I liked this type of multiple images techniques because it was more creative and seemed to help viewers look beyond and into the background of each particular picture. One of the artists that I have taken a particular interest in during my research is Sara K Byrne who focuses on creating double exposure portraits. I found these portraits particularly interesting because it caught my eye the most and made me think deeply about it.
From this research I have learned that there can be more to a picture than meets the eye. I took the idea of the double exposure portraits and tried to make one myself but just by using different images I found on google. To make this image, I selected both a portrait of a woman, and a naturalistic image and used a website to place one image on top of each other and create what I felt was something like the work of Sara K Byrne. Afterwards, I put the new image on my website.
So far I have experimented with a few multiple images techniques. My first idea was to use a pinhole camera to make multiple images, and so to experiment with this, I used a pinhole camera app on an iPod in class and took a couple of photos of someone and put them together. I also made the image inspired by Sara K Byrne - as mentioned previously. As well as this, I created an image at home by using a camera to take multiple images of my feet in different shoes on different backgrounds. I then took these images and used a collage website to put them together and put a quote onto it that I thought represented the image. My biggest challenge so far was coming up with an idea to act on for the half term as I struggle sometimes to find a starting point when doing independent work. But eventually I overcame this by thinking deeply and researching different types of narrative images to inspire me.
I think so far the best idea I have had is one that I haven’t yet acted on. I want to create a narrative image piece using past techniques that we have worked on. I wanted to do it by using maybe some photograms and rayographs or maybe a photo obscura. I want to use these techniques to create a sort of abstract story that gives viewers something to think about. I think that it could talk a while to get into it and get the ideas properly planned out but once I get going I don’t think it would take that long, maybe a couple of hours. To display it, I’m not too sure about that yet but I may decide to display it in blocks on a single sheet of card or something similar along those lines.
From this research I have learned that there can be more to a picture than meets the eye. I took the idea of the double exposure portraits and tried to make one myself but just by using different images I found on google. To make this image, I selected both a portrait of a woman, and a naturalistic image and used a website to place one image on top of each other and create what I felt was something like the work of Sara K Byrne. Afterwards, I put the new image on my website.
So far I have experimented with a few multiple images techniques. My first idea was to use a pinhole camera to make multiple images, and so to experiment with this, I used a pinhole camera app on an iPod in class and took a couple of photos of someone and put them together. I also made the image inspired by Sara K Byrne - as mentioned previously. As well as this, I created an image at home by using a camera to take multiple images of my feet in different shoes on different backgrounds. I then took these images and used a collage website to put them together and put a quote onto it that I thought represented the image. My biggest challenge so far was coming up with an idea to act on for the half term as I struggle sometimes to find a starting point when doing independent work. But eventually I overcame this by thinking deeply and researching different types of narrative images to inspire me.
I think so far the best idea I have had is one that I haven’t yet acted on. I want to create a narrative image piece using past techniques that we have worked on. I wanted to do it by using maybe some photograms and rayographs or maybe a photo obscura. I want to use these techniques to create a sort of abstract story that gives viewers something to think about. I think that it could talk a while to get into it and get the ideas properly planned out but once I get going I don’t think it would take that long, maybe a couple of hours. To display it, I’m not too sure about that yet but I may decide to display it in blocks on a single sheet of card or something similar along those lines.
One of the homework's that were set was to pick a certain thing you find on the road that you live on and take a picture of every one of them. I chose to do the fronts of cars, particularly focusing on their license plates. The way I chose to display the images was in a grid format in order to make it seem more like a typology piece. I really like the images, particularly the ones with primary colours; blue, red, green and yellow - because they stand out the most, rather than the silver cars which are more ordinary and subtle. After displaying the images, I then decided that I liked how they looked and decided to use them for my multiple images final piece.
To make the images my final piece, I stuck them down on a board and then painted over the number plates in order then copy out a piece of chosen text that I would find later on that related to the subject of cars. After doing this I then realised that in order to make it all look much neater, I should just cut out the number plates and then stick the text in through the back which is what I did - shown below.
This is each individual image of my final piece, once again displayed in a grid format to appear as a typology piece. The quoted text that I used is: "You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property but in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths." This is by Karl Marx. I thought that this quote was fitting with the idea of cars because it talks about consumerism and so is quite ironic as cars are like the ultimate consumers in the world. I am quite happy with the end result of my final piece because I think that the whole idea of having different types of the same thing is something quite interesting to look at. However, there are a few things I have picked out on that I could improve. I could have improved this final piece by taking more time to actually capture the original car images - this would have improved the overall piece because then the pictures would have been a lot straighter and they could have each been the same size and distance from the camera. I think they turned out this way because when I originally took the images, it was quite hard to take most of the images because I had to crouch down between two different cars and so I had no space to move and position the camera better. I also think that taking more time would have improved the image because then the license plates - the main focus of the images - would have each been in the same position and would have been similar sizes to each other and so wouldn't have ended up looking as uneven as they do. Despite of all of this, I still however think that the images work well together and that the text is what completed the image, tying it all together.