How To David Hockney Joiners |
Hockney Joiners
David Hockney, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Joiners In the early 1980’s, English painter David Hockney began creating intricate photo collages that he called “joiners”. His earlier collages consisted of grid-like compositions made up of polaroid photographs. He then switched to photo lab processed 35mm photographs and created collages that took on a shape of their own, creating abstract representations of the scenes he had photographed. The varied exposures of the individual photographs that make up each collage give each work a fluidity and movement that otherwise might not be found. |
How To Make a Good Joiner |
Don’t just capture
Don’t just capture a landscape – reconstruct it in a way that’s interesting. Focusing on the finer details within a scene and piecing them together in a way that allows you to create exciting image with a difference. Shoot in a considered way for easier editing Shoot the entire scene in 20-150 images Use basic settings You really can use any camera for this technique, but you’ll ideally be able to use a focal length equivalent to 55mm on an APS-C camera, and 85mm full-frame. |
Some help with Joiners
Making A Joiner
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joiner_template.psd | |
File Size: | 1289 kb |
File Type: | psd |
The Process step by step
Download the Photoshop template with grid lines marked out in blue. These will help you place you images correctly. Remember they are only guidelines and do not appear in the final image when saved.
Follow each step for every image to be placed in the corresponding space.
Select / All
Edit / Copy
Return to the Template image
Edit / Paste This pastes the copied image on top of your previous image in a new layer
Edit / Free Transform This allows you to size the image and move it to the correct place by clicking the little box or "handle"in the corner. ( Hold the shift key to preserve the correct dimensions of the image)
Hit Return on keyboard to execute the transformation.
Save
Download the Photoshop template with grid lines marked out in blue. These will help you place you images correctly. Remember they are only guidelines and do not appear in the final image when saved.
Follow each step for every image to be placed in the corresponding space.
Select / All
Edit / Copy
Return to the Template image
Edit / Paste This pastes the copied image on top of your previous image in a new layer
Edit / Free Transform This allows you to size the image and move it to the correct place by clicking the little box or "handle"in the corner. ( Hold the shift key to preserve the correct dimensions of the image)
Hit Return on keyboard to execute the transformation.
Save
Workbooks
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Some Examples of how other students have made their workbooks
Workbooks must be A3 and should be the type what a soft black cover
Photographer Research
A great way to get some ideas is to research other photographers follow the link to see a list of some important photographers worth looking at.
Vivian Mayer
Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide.[1]
During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished, and she never printed many of her negatives. A Chicago collector, John Maloof, acquired some of Maier's photos in 2007, while two other Chicago-based collectors, Ron Slattery and Randy Prow, also found some of Maier's prints and negatives in her boxes and suitcases around the same time. Maier's photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008, by Slattery, but the work received little response.[2] In October 2009, Maloof linked his blog to a selection of Maier's photographs on the image-sharing website Flickr, and the results went "viral", with thousands of people expressing interest. Critical acclaim and interest in Maier's work quickly followed,[3][4] and since then, Maier's photographs have been exhibited in North America, Europe, Asia[5] and South America [6] while her life and work have been the subject of books and documentary films. Find out more http://www.vivianmaier.com |