Case StudyHannah Sewell

Doug PrinceDoug Prince uses a more traditional and historical method, he does this by creating images that are beautiful but also meaningful, this is helped through the use of a camera, dark room and also a computer. His career has worked been going for 50 years that with practice and produced art that has been shown around the USA. Doug would have gone through the process of Photoshop to make the image, to do this he would had to take an image of a living with a plain white floor. You need a plain floor so that the object that merges into it will will not be contrasted by strong colours but instead have a similar to colour to the object. For example in this image they have purposely made the image black and white so that the sand could easily merge into the plain grey floor. You can do this my using hue/saturation method where you can turn the saturation right down so the image turns into a black and white setting. The way in which Doug creation the floor/sand effect was first of all he put the sand image on top of the living room image, to merge them together like this he would have used a ‘Polygonal Lasso Tool’. This tool is very simple because you have to produce a shape around the area you want, once you have done that then let go of the Tool, this will automatically give you a circular shape. Once you have made your shape then you have to make sure to remember to put in a certain ‘Feather’ amount, this comes up on Photoshop when you touch the Polygonal tool. The feather is used to merge both layers together so it looks realistic and unique on the image. The use of juxtaposition that Doug uses helps to create new images that produces different emotion and also bring nature and ruin together which gives a completely look on life and photography altogether. After picking the type of feather you want, on my image that I did I chose 300px because the fading was beautiful from the chairs and looked more realistic than 400px and 200px, 400px had to much fading on one side which meant it didn’t look real enough and looked more like an image on top of the other. Whilst 200px had both sides having a lot of fading which meant that 300px was the perfect balance on the floor. Finally you press on the second layer which had your sand image on, you right click and press ‘Layer via copy’ once you have done that then you will get an image like Doug's and mine.Doug’s work has been shown in several art museums, most of his work has been shown in arty cities like New York, Chicago and Washington. These museums are:• Museum of Modern Art, New York.• The Smithsonian Institution, Washington.• The Art Institute of Chicago.Whilst having his work shown in these museums he has also been teaching in universities to broaden people’s awareness of digital methods and what his experience has towards his work. He has worked for universities around USA since 1970’s.

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Jerry UelsmannJerry Uelsmann work is contemporary and traditional pieces of art, this is true as he has used techniques such as using a black room and also using video and posters to show his work to the public. Jerry has published 24 books from the time of 1970-2011 e.g. the books that he has published are ‘Dances with Negatives 2011, Meditation Navigation 2007 and Referencing art 2003.’these books either show of his latest art whilst others e.g. Museum Studies 1999, this will help university students understand the meanings of his art and how he produced them. This would have come in handy for when he worked at the University of Florida in Gainesville 1960, he kept working there until he became a graduate research professor in 1974 which meant he could explore the way of art. He is now retired teaching but still producing art like this today.To make this image you would first of all get a stream image and a women lying with a black background, this has worked well in Jerry’s image as the black has really darkened into the rocks to get a sense that she is physically lying there gracefully. To make this image realistic you can produce it on Photoshop, to do this you can get two different layers and put them either on Image>Adjustments>Hue/saturation or Adjustments>Black and White. These effect when put together will get the same black and white edit. After this you press ‘Command L’ this will produce a box called Levels, this box helps you to make the white marks in the picture lighter whilst the dark shadows can become darker. You would use the level box only on the stream image first this is so you can highlight the darker and lighter parts of the image. When I had a go at creating this effect on Photoshop I found that my image wasn’t a good quality for producing the lighter and darker shades but when doing the same effect onto the women I realised that the colours worked really well together and merged so that it looked like she was lying amongst the water. Once your happy in getting the light and dark shades correct then you can move onto the feather effect again for this image you would use another feather e.g. my teacher used a 50px feather which worked well and made her body move into the water, after trying different feathers I picked 80px this is because the body fitted well within the stream and merged perfectly like the Jerry Uelsmann image. The order in which you produce a feather effect is Polygonal Lasso Tool>Feather>click on stream picture layer>right click on the women>layer via copy, then you will get an image of a women going into a stream.An example of products that Jerry has used for his art are writings, portraits, publications and clippings, through all of this he has now done 359 fine art prints throughout his 30 year career, this is a massive amount of work that has been shown in fantastic museums around the world like: • Victoria and Albert Museum, London.• Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.• The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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When researching Michael I found that not everything was exact to the point, when he takes his images they are always different because of the environment that he’s in, the exposures that he tries to use are also different because some can be only seconds to hours to get that accurate picture. What he uses to create these images are e.g. bulbs, fire and torch lights. There will be an area in which you can take an image, the only way it will work is if you put it on a long enough exposure so that it captures all the light from the outside, if the camera was on a fast exposure then it means it will only get a little bit of light and then it’s too dark, whilst if it’s on a long exposure then the camera will try grab as much light in as possible and the objects that are moving in the image also. The example of the bike shown here would have been on a really long exposure estimating over two hours long because the longer the exposure the less you can see the person creating the light object. This is also because it grasps the light from the sky and captures the light reflection onto the road, this shows that the camera has been exposed long enough to find these details in the road. How you make it is that he leaves the camera and then starts drawing for example with a bulb and makes the shape that he wants to make, if you look closely you can see the movement in his feet that shows that the camera has picked up his movement as well as the bikes. Michael doesn’t use editing for his images, instead he uses either resizing so that it fits on the internet and also water marking just to protect his images so that people don’t copy or use them themselves. By keeping his images pure and simple it really brings out the beauty in them.Michael Bosanko’s has worked for clients in different sections of the media, the examples are:• Billboards, TV adverts, film, global campaigns, magazine editorials and album covers. He has worked for Companies like Orange and British Airways which a large companies that will really raise awareness in his work. What’s good about his work is that he can pick any location and country and he can still make a beautiful images, the example of locations that he has been in are:• UK, Europe and Asia, he has covered a lot of main cities and areas that people wouldn’t have seen before.

Michael BosankoMichael Bosanko is a contemporary, non-traditional photographer who started his works when he was travelling to Greece in 2004. When he was doing his travels he found that taking images of the moonlit landscape was more difficult than expected, this ended meant that his image became useless. His images being ruined was a positive thing because when he looked over them he realised that the light produced shapes. This meant that he could move his camera to draw with the moon light, this sparked his career. When practicing constantly he knew that if he kept his camera on the tripod then he could go out and draw his art with objects like a torchlight (which he used for his first ever art pieces).