Task 3 - Experiment

For task 3, I as asked to take the images i photographed for task two and create at least two cubist images and at least two futurist style images from them. The way I was asked to create these images was to use paper folding techniques to create a hand made cubist style image and to create a cubist style image by editing it in Photoshop. How i created the futurist images was down to my own decision so i decided to create both of these images using Photoshop as i felt this would be the most suitable for the futurist style and i did not see a practical way in which i could hand make a futurist image. Here are the images i created.

This is the first cubist image i created using Photoshop. This is a photograph of the Moravian Church in Baildon which i have edited into a cubist style in Photoshop. I used the 'inner glow' tool on Photoshop to create the sections of the image which are contained in the boxes. I then adjusted some of the settings slightly in order to get the boxes how i liked them. After this i went to the 'free transform' tool on Photoshop and pulled at some of the corners to stretch the image which is contained in the box to distort it slightly making the image look sightly abstract. I kept adjusting the image in this way until i was happy with the way it was looking. Once i was happy with the way the image was looking, i opened the 'FX' menu and gave each of the sections a pattern overlay to add more interest to the image. After i had done all this i converted the whole image to a sepia tone. Overall I am happy with the way this image turned out and i feel it looks better than i predicted it would before i started to edit it.

This is the second cubist image i created in Photoshop. This is a collage type image made up of cats' faces. included in this image there are photographs of three different cats and different features on the cats face are made up from the photographs of the other cats. In order to make this image I had to photograph my three cats head on. This took quite a bit of time as my cats would keep moving which would make it difficult to get the images i wanted. A lot of the photographs I took during this photo shoot came out blurred and out of focus or my cat would move so that i would end up with photographs of the side or back of my cats head which would be perfectly in focus, which would of course be unusable for use in this image. This meant that the process of taking these photographs proved to be a long one but in the end i finally got the images i was intending to get. Once i had completed this photo shoot, i opened the image in photoshop and edited them slightly just to enhance the image without drastically changing the image. Once i had enhanced these images i chose one of the images to use as a 'base' image then cropped out small parts from the other images and placed them in the corresponding positions on the 'base' image. For example, as you can see, the left eye is at a slightly different angle and doesn't quite match up, this is because this is because the eye is from another cat and it has been put in the same place as where the original eye would be. I did this to a few of the other facial features such as the right ear, right cheek, nose and chin. Creating cubist images like this is effective as it looks abstract yet simple. if you look at this image from a distance, you cannot notice a huge difference in the image at first, it's only when you look closer at the image that you notice that the image has a collage effect.

This is a photograph of the cubist style image i created by hand. Before manipulating this image, it was a photograph of a child wearing a plushy lion winter hat and was found in a magazine. I chose to use this image as I thought the page had a nice look to it but i also wanted to use a different material and something slightly different from my own work so i chose an image from a magazine to manipulate by hand. I created this piece using origami techniques which i was taught by a video clip found on Youtube. I chose to fold the image into this design as I found it aesthetically pleasing and nice to look at and i was attracted to the bow design. I also chose to fold the paper in such a way as I felt that the angular lines than run through this piece represent the cubist art style very well even though the only manipulation which has happened to the image is that of folding. 

This is the first image i created in the futurist style. This is an image of car tail lights and head lights ad they pass by. This image was created using a long exposure on my camera and placing my camera on a wall in order to get a smooth and steady shot. To create this image, i went out at night and stood at the edge of the road, set my camera down on a wall and photographed cars as they were passing by using a long exposure on my camera. I took several photographs of cars in this fashion so that when i came to edit the images in photoshop a better image could be created. When editing this image, i took all of the photographs i took and i layered one on top of another until it looked like i had only one image. All of the images were now layered on top of each other so i simply changed the opacity to around 30% so that each layer could be seen and the stream of light given off my the tail lights and the head lights of the car looked fuller and brighter. As I placed the camera on a wall whilst i was taking these photographs, this means that the camera never moved meaning even though several layers have been added on top of each other, the detailing in the image such as the road markings are still in focus and show no sign of movement. I feel that this image is a futurist style image as the stream of light from the tail lights and head lights suggests movement and although you cannot see that cars which have created this light stream, it is known that they were there and this suggests power and strength. Power, strength and movement are all key elements in futurist art and photography.

This is the secon futurist style image I created using Photoshop. This is an image of my model, Antonio, doing a front flip on a trampoline. I created this image by asking Antonio to do a front flip while I photographed him using the rapid shutter feature on my camera. By using the rapid shutter feature on my camera, this meant i was able to capture images of Antonio at different stages of the front flip so when you look back at all of the photographs individually, they could almost be put back together to make a stop motion animation. To create this image, i opened all of the images that i took in photoshop then layered them all on top of each other so that each photograph formed its own layer in one photoshop document. At this stage, only one stage of Antonio's front flip was visible, this meant that i had to change the opacity of each layer. As I had quite a lot of images layered on top of each other, I changes the opacity of each layer to around 10 or 11%, this meant that each layer was visible, but not so much so that one was more dominant than the rest. I am very happy with the way this photograph turned out as it turned out exactly the way i hoped it would when i first had the idea of doing this for a photo shoot. I feel that this is a good example of a futurist image as movement is clearly shown through the use of the fast shutter speed and movement is one of the main elements of futurist art and photography