Visart Jack

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.