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Final Piece No. 1 - "Down In Flames"

Creation Process

To create these photos I firstly started by going outside and setting up the scene, This was done by placing a box on my drive way and setting up a tripod and camera in the perfect position to capture all the box.

 

 

  1. I then put my model into the box and made him pose in a 'relaxed' position. I then took some photos of this. 
     

  2. I then made my model get out the box and then set it on fire, due to the fact the camera stayed in the same position it meant I could overlay the normal and burning box pictures ontop of each other and this was the basis of my editing.
     

  3. I then started taking these photo from the SD card to my laptop.
     

  4. The photos I'd taken at each shoot were then seperated into different folders dependsing on whether they were of good quality or if they were of bad quality. The good quality photos would later be used in my final images for my triptography experiment, I did this so they were easily accessable and also easy to find once in Photoshop. It gave me the ability to not go searching through literally thousands of photos to find the good quality ones.
     

  5. The selected photos were then dragged into Photoshop to start the editing process. This began with making two different layers, the first layer consisted of my main images of my model in the box, and the second was the burning box.
     

  6. Once the base layers were I started to then experiment with blending modes in Photoshop and changing the opacity on different layers and replaying them with layers above it or below it, these different effects started to overlay all the images to make one, and gave a surrealistic double exposure effect which made it look as though my model was laying in a burning box.
     

  7. After spending a long amount of time changing the effetcs on each layer and trying to make it look as effective as it possibly could, I finally archived the desired effect I was aiming for. Doing this gave me the ability to add more contrast and more hue saturations on different layers. 
     

  8. Once the image was done I saved it as a Jpg to my laptop and then uploaded it on this website.

Experimentations

This is a screenshot showing some of the experimentations I did whilst creating my second final piece. To start with some of the experimenting I did was with the blending modes in Photoshop. In order to make my burning box images blend together and make one image, it meant I needed to slightly overlay each image ontop of the next.
 

To start with, I began by blending my first and second layer together, I did this by changing the blending modes on photoshop to multiply, this caused the image to go slightly barker but this is exactly what I needed. In order to make the fire seem more realistic I needed to make it more dark otherwise it didn't look real.

Final Piece

Below is my one of my Final pieces for this unit. This style has specificly been developed from all of my experiments and the artist research I did. In particular the emulations of Christopher Mckenney and Kevin Corrado

Contact Sheets

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