'Conceal' Mood Board
Rough Ideas
* Make cast of people's faces using bright plastic mold like in Julio Bashmore cover (1 right, 2 down) and the skulture of Californian artist Kaws (bottom right)
- high exposure
- no flash
- long shutter speed
- tripod
* Use projector displaying colorful images onto people
- Colorful packed images like graffiti, bubble writing
- Maybe a cartoon of someone's face projected onto another face
- no flash
- use tripod
- start by using mid shutter speed
- would work best behind white background in T31
* Pixels
- Using them to censor perfectly innocent scenes such as flowers, old portraits formal of successful people
* Block Colours
- Taking dark, slightly underexposed images with high contrast and using the paint or cut out tool to remove them so they's a white silhouette. Unlike the cover for Fabio's Fabriclive album (3 right, 1 down), would probably like to use a scene with lots of people who were not cut out and just one who was.
- Getting people and paining them in different colours, would probably work best in the studio in T31
* Shadows
- Shadows conversing and/or interacting with real people. Would probably have use two separate images and Photoshop them together.
- EG; someone sitting down and having a meal with a shadow
* Masks
- High exposure pictures of people in suits wearing masks in formal situations; dinners, courts, business meetings ect
* Photo montage
- Replacing peoples' faces with collages of other objects which all fit together and respond to each other.
* Replcaing heads
- Getting portait photos of people, well lit, no flash infront of a plain white background but replacing their heads with pyhsical objects. It may sound a bit obvious and cliche but it would allow alot of development and variation around the same theme meaning i could make an outcome with lots of different photographs.
- This would work either using a headless manacin and physically making things come out of their heads or Just taking two photo's, one with someone normally and another one in the exact same position of thge same background but with no subject and i could use a layer mask on photoshop to edit in the heads.
- high exposure
- no flash
- long shutter speed
- tripod
* Use projector displaying colorful images onto people
- Colorful packed images like graffiti, bubble writing
- Maybe a cartoon of someone's face projected onto another face
- no flash
- use tripod
- start by using mid shutter speed
- would work best behind white background in T31
* Pixels
- Using them to censor perfectly innocent scenes such as flowers, old portraits formal of successful people
* Block Colours
- Taking dark, slightly underexposed images with high contrast and using the paint or cut out tool to remove them so they's a white silhouette. Unlike the cover for Fabio's Fabriclive album (3 right, 1 down), would probably like to use a scene with lots of people who were not cut out and just one who was.
- Getting people and paining them in different colours, would probably work best in the studio in T31
* Shadows
- Shadows conversing and/or interacting with real people. Would probably have use two separate images and Photoshop them together.
- EG; someone sitting down and having a meal with a shadow
* Masks
- High exposure pictures of people in suits wearing masks in formal situations; dinners, courts, business meetings ect
* Photo montage
- Replacing peoples' faces with collages of other objects which all fit together and respond to each other.
* Replcaing heads
- Getting portait photos of people, well lit, no flash infront of a plain white background but replacing their heads with pyhsical objects. It may sound a bit obvious and cliche but it would allow alot of development and variation around the same theme meaning i could make an outcome with lots of different photographs.
- This would work either using a headless manacin and physically making things come out of their heads or Just taking two photo's, one with someone normally and another one in the exact same position of thge same background but with no subject and i could use a layer mask on photoshop to edit in the heads.
Block Colour Eyes
I dont thik this idea was succesful because the pictures look too simple, i wanted them to be mysterious and make you want to ask questions about the subjects and with not being abple to see their eyes you felt alot of their chaircter was removed giving it a creapy effect but somehow i dont think it achieved that. I will not be continuing the specific idea by replacing the eyes with block colours through the rest of my project.
Inspirations:
Kaws
Simian Mobile Disco
SBTRKT
Primary Test
As you can see this is just a way of testing the technique i could use if i were to develop the idea of concealing heads with objects and seeing how it changed their character and how you saw them.
The technique i used is firstly to take two pictures of the same person in the position, angle and lighting, one with the person standing normally and the second with the object over their face or someone holding an object without out a subject behind (as in pictures 1 & 2) and blending them together with photoshop.
- I did this firstly by selecting the photo of the object i wanted to impose and creating a layer mask. I would then decrease the opacity of the layer so i could see where it would fit over the face of the subject.
- I would continue by using the paint tool to replace the background in the picture of the object with the image of the subject behind it until it looked like they were the same image.
- Sometimes I would have to edit the light settings such as contrast and brightness to make it look more like they were in the same place but i didn't on this occasion because they were and this was just a test to see if this idea would actually work.
The technique i used is firstly to take two pictures of the same person in the position, angle and lighting, one with the person standing normally and the second with the object over their face or someone holding an object without out a subject behind (as in pictures 1 & 2) and blending them together with photoshop.
- I did this firstly by selecting the photo of the object i wanted to impose and creating a layer mask. I would then decrease the opacity of the layer so i could see where it would fit over the face of the subject.
- I would continue by using the paint tool to replace the background in the picture of the object with the image of the subject behind it until it looked like they were the same image.
- Sometimes I would have to edit the light settings such as contrast and brightness to make it look more like they were in the same place but i didn't on this occasion because they were and this was just a test to see if this idea would actually work.
Final Outcome
Evaluation
I think this project was generally sucessful as far at the final outcome because it looks professional ad neat.
If i were to develop from this pice i would firstly more emphasis in the way in which the objects reflect on the people they are imposed on commenting more on the relationship between people and objects and the way the can portray culture and personality traits. For example, showing someone's job and lifestyle through an object like a farmer with the head of a tracktor.
I could also develop it by showing how the objects are shown through different situations instead of in a formal portrait layout, almost ones that were ironic fr the situation like the one in the middle of the bottom row at a photography studio taking photos of models or the ones of toys playing with toys in a child's bedroom for example.
I like the picture on the bottom row on he far left because the colour's comment each other well whereas the others are put together because of how easy they are to photoshop with each other, the lack of organisation creates an air of spontaneousness that distracted slightly from the main concept when in such a controlled environment such as the photography studio.
If i were to develop from this pice i would firstly more emphasis in the way in which the objects reflect on the people they are imposed on commenting more on the relationship between people and objects and the way the can portray culture and personality traits. For example, showing someone's job and lifestyle through an object like a farmer with the head of a tracktor.
I could also develop it by showing how the objects are shown through different situations instead of in a formal portrait layout, almost ones that were ironic fr the situation like the one in the middle of the bottom row at a photography studio taking photos of models or the ones of toys playing with toys in a child's bedroom for example.
I like the picture on the bottom row on he far left because the colour's comment each other well whereas the others are put together because of how easy they are to photoshop with each other, the lack of organisation creates an air of spontaneousness that distracted slightly from the main concept when in such a controlled environment such as the photography studio.
Further Development; George
This is George. George is a physical material version of what I have been doing previously in photography. He was made by stuffing clothes with pieces of scrunched up newspaper held together with masking-tape for strength.
The benefit of having a physical model as opposed to having two images photoshopped together is that you can place the model in any situation and not have to worry about weather the light settings were the same because they had to be as the object and subject are genuinely connected to each other.
The benefit of having a physical model as opposed to having two images photoshopped together is that you can place the model in any situation and not have to worry about weather the light settings were the same because they had to be as the object and subject are genuinely connected to each other.