Monday, February 28, 2011

Photo Montages


In my first Photography class, one of my last assignments that semester was to create a photo montage, which is a collection oh photos put into one. There are plenty of interesting ways one could go about doing this. The one I did above is 3 photos. One is a picture of some water, another is a picture of my street, and the last is a picture of the sky. I tried to make a surreal looking image. Water engulfing the street, the sky looking like it's falling. I was pretty happy with the end result. I was probably the only one in my class to approach the assignment like this. Most of the other students did theres by taking multiple pictures of someone and then putting them all in one picture. Not that there is anything wrong with that, some of them turned out really great, better than mine even.
The link I posted above has some really interesting photographic montages. My favorites would have to be the combination of modern and old photos merged into one. Really gives you a sense of going back in time but still staying in the present. They are very interesting to look at.
This other link I have posted above has a lot of surreal looking photo montages. Although I think most of these would be considered digital manipulations, I want to say they are basically the same thing, since you have to manipulate the photos digitally in the first place. The time it takes to do such images would depend greatly on how skilled with photoshop you are. I have done such other images myself but no way as near to being of the quality of the pictures in the link. I hope to be able to reach such a skill level in the future.

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