I wish to pay homage to this mage, using photoshop to try to have a similar effect of two models being bound at the head. I like the idea of having two models in a piece and think that this would be a good way to explore the idea further.
I have made a sketch visualising what I intend to do. I will have a male and female model again. I will try to have the facial coverings bound and portray them struggling to pull apart in different directions.
Timings
Timing is crucial in this shoot. I will shoot at mid-day to get the lightsource overhead, providing some shadows but a clear image where the setting is not covered in the heavy shadows cast in the morning or afternoon.
Details
I will again ask a family member to act as my model.
I will use my garden as it is easy to access and has a large stretch of grass that I can use, as a lrage aspect of my theme is that the subject's are regular people, and many people today live in an urban environment, which I hope to portray.
Equiptment
I will need to aquire the covering for the face, some smart clothes such as a dress and suit, and my camera. I will use a tripod so as to take two images in the same spot and edit them together.
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Camera settings:
ISO: 100
Tv : 1/10
Av:22
All of the 3 above images remove the excess dangling fabric from the frame in some way. The middle and left images manage to crop it out of the frame. I decided I would try to crop my images in different ways to see if it would be useful for editing them later. Although I will edit the man and woman into the same frame, the single subject being pulled back creates a different effect, like someone out of frame is trying to pull them/choke them.
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I have decided that I will simply crop out the person holding the fabric from behind out in each photo to create an image more similar to the image on the right out of the top 3. Though cropping is an interesting technique it does not further my intended technique hugely other than editing out the unneccessary extra subjects. I may crop out the top and bottom of the images to keep a tighter focus on the models.
I decided to merge these images togther and blend their facial coverings to make them seem bound together. This was easy to do as the images lined up well since I used a tripod to ensure they were taken in the same frame. I then increased the contrast to bring out the brightness in the image.
I then cropped the image so as to remove any excess background detail to bring a further focus on to the models.
I then shifted the image to greyscale to give the image a more somber tone. I then shifted the inesnity of certain colours, making the blues and green more intense as to give the white effect to the grass in the image rather than the initial grey appearence of it in the image to make the image seem more surreal.
I then selecred the models by themselves and created a new layer. I then removed the greyscale on that layer so as to retain colour only in that area. The effect worked well as it highlighted the models further in the image and added to the idea of the surreal, with colour drained from the environment but the models retaining it.
Munch & Colours
Munch used colour in an offputting and clashing way that almost gave off a sickly tinge to the image, subconsciously aiding the reader to empaphise with the situation of the subject.I decided to experiment by editing the background to have wierd, unnatural colours, as munch did, howver with different types of colour and intensity.
In this first image I zoomed in on the female model. I attempted to focus on the stuggle of one model to see if the effect varied when the image was substancially cropped. I then made the colours hazy and unnatural, to add to the idea that it warps the suffere's sense orf reality. I blurred the background to keep the focus on the model. I also added some substancial motion blur effects in Photoshop.
I used the quick select tool to make the background a seperate layer to the models, I then carried on the motion blur and made the background blue and bright purple to look very un-natural, and like the above image, drained the colour from the models. The colour stresses the disturbing nature of the illness and how it can bring the sufferer out of toutch with reality.
I dulled the background colours and gave them a brown tinge. This gave the background a sort of decayed look which add's to the unnatural aspect I am trying to portray. The fauna appears more wilted and the overall hue gives off this idea of decrepidness. This was intended to portray the feeling of being left behind or neglected because of mental illness, and fighting to escape.
Magritte
I decided to experiment with creating an effect similar to magritte's images where he textures a part of the image (like a person or dove) with the texture of the background or sky ect. This effect interested me as it is an apsect I have not explored before.
Magritte's work
These images demonstrate the technique that I intended to explore, with a wide range of subjects demonstrated.
I used double exposure to layer an image of the sky over the mask. I did this by highlighting the mask, then switching to the image of the sky (which maintained the shape I had selected) and cutting it, then layering the shape over the mask and lowing the opacity to maintain the creases of the mask.