Hockney Joiners

These photo joiners were inspired by those created by David Hockney. When creating the photo joiners, Hockney would take photographs of small sections of a scene which he would then print then arrange to create a larger overall image made up of various different photographs. In order to create my images, i have used the same technique but instead of creating the images in a conventional way and physically arranging the prints, I digitally created the images and used Photoshop to arrange them. The first joiner which I created is of a row of a row of flags which are located within one of the corridors in college. To create this joiner i took various photographs of small sections of these flags and did this by choosing a section to photograph then photographing the surrounding sections until I had photographed the entire area which I wished to include within the joiner. once I had photographed the entire area in sections, I then resized each of the photographs and placed them all into a Photoshop document and lined them all up with each other so that all of the photographs joined together in order to create the overall image which I was aiming to get. For this joiner, I had my camera set on an automatic setting meaning that the iso setting kept changing depending on the amount of light which was present at any given point. This means that some of the photographs within the joiner are brighter than the others and each has a different brightness. This means that the joiner does not join up properly and the sections that do join up do not match each other because of brightness levels differ so much. In addition to this the photographs were all taken from slightly different angles meaning that some of the images do not join up properly meaning the joiner is not seamless. however, one of the aspects of the joiners is that they have a look of a cubist image made up using photography so this adds to this effect and the fact that each of these images does not line up exactly is not too important however the lighting issue within this joiner is quite problematic. If i was to re do this joiner i would have my camera set on manual so i can control the amount of light which is let into the camera by controlling the shutter speed, iso and aperture. Doing this would mean that the lighting within each of the photographs would be consistent making this joiner fir together better. The second joiner i created was created in the same way as the first however when taking the photographs to make this joiner, i made sure i had my camera set on a manual setting meaning i could control the amount of light let into the camera. this means that the lighting within these photographs is consistent and this makes the joiner fit together better than the first one i created. This joiner is a photograph of a section of a wall found in the college canteen and to take these photographs i stood directly in front of the section of the wall which I wanted to photograph and started by taking one photograph then moving my camera slightly to one side and taking another photograph and continuing in this fashion. I did this in this way as it meant that I was able to take a photograph which covered each section of the wall which i was choosing to photograph meaning that there were no open and unfilled gaps within this joiner. I put this joiner together in the same way as i put the first one together, by resizing each of the photographs then placing them together in order within photoshop. As i was not moving and i was stood in the same place when taking the photographs for this joiner, it means that the photographs were all taken from a similar angle meaning that they all fir together better than the photographs taken for the first joiner. Overall i feel that i learned from the mistakes which i made while creating the first joiner and corrected them with the second joiner which i created meaning that i feel that the second joiner i created is a lot better than the first one.