Visart Jack

Muti-Frame  Artist Statement For this project we were assigned the task of replicating the work of Photographer Tom Young. In his work he combines and blends pictures together with the goal of describing a scene or portraying a mood or vibe. In this project I used old pictures, most of which had been used before in different projects and I then edited them to add the boarder and then to add the tone and color in each one. I had some problems finding pictures that would work, but eventually I did find ones that I thought would look nice together. 

Artist Statement This set is made up of some of my favorite pictures from the last four drafts of my cityscape project. This pictures have been photographed and edited over the course of the past month. These all share a lot in common, firstly the backgrounds in each picture were all taken from the same spot and they were all taken within 30 minutes of each other. The fact that backgrounds were taken at a similar times means that a lot of the lighting in each picture is the same. The top layer (the face) is also used more than once and many of them are used several times. The pictures were also all edited in the same manner, adding to the similarity. 

CityScapes + Portraits Draft 4 For this project I was tasked with the job of mimicking the photographic style of professional photographer Jasper James.  His work combines Cityscape photography with portraits, he does this through edited them and combining the two in Photoshop. This week I have continued to create new pictures and different variations of perviously created prices. This week I added a few new backgrounds and new portraits as well as re-editing some older pictures to make them look better and to include them in this weeks draft. 

CityScapes + Portraits Draft 3 For this project I was tasked with the job of mimicking the photographic style of professional photographer Jasper James.  His work combines Cityscape photography with portraits, he does this through edited them and combining the two in Photoshop. This week I have tried new blurring methods in Photoshop but I found very little difference, so I went back to the original method. This week I added a few new backgrounds and new portraits as well as re-editing some older pictures to make them look better and to include them in this weeks draft. 

Cityscapes + Portraits  For this project I was tasked with the job of mimicking the photographic style of professional photographer Jasper James.  His work combines Cityscape photography with portraits, he does this through edited them and combining the two in Photoshop. Jasper James's work has a very clear line between what is in focus and what is blurred, and I am still working on blurring the images similar to how he does it. I have begun to understand Photoshop a little bit better in the past two weeks which has allowed me to edit these faster and make them look better. I still need to create a few more picture, most likely with different portraits and different cityscapes.

Cityscapes + Portraits  For this project I was tasked with the job of mimicking the photographic style of professional photographer Jasper James.  His work combines Cityscape photography with portraits, he does this through edited them and combining the two in Photoshop. The way the pictures are ordered below is the order that they were created in, so naturally there should be some difference in look between the first and last pictures. At first I found Photoshop hard to work with and I was struggling to edit the pictures well and efficiently, however I now feel that I have a pretty good grasp on how to edit them, as seen in the bottom pictures. My method is to combine the two chosen pictures, then create the outline of the head and edit the base picture (the cityscape) to increase the saturation and color where the head goes and to decrease it everywhere else. After this I add the portrait in and lightly blur everywhere except for where the head goes, this makes so that ...

Artist Statement In this project we were tasked with the job of recreating the style of photography used by Richard Avedon in his portraits. This was achieved by taking a picture of a person who is visually showing an emotion, this could be done by talking to the subject and photographing their visual expressions. We also had to crop the pictures into squares and make them black and white in order to fully replicate his method.