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A2 Photography; Photo Manipulation

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Awesome Drawings Straight onto Photographs by Johan Thornqvist. Photo Illustration projects on Behance. Multiple exposure. A multiple exposure composite image of a lunar eclipse taken over Hayward, California in 2004.

Multiple exposure

Overview[edit] Photography changes what we are willing to believe. Early in his career, Southern politician John Calhoun was a strong supporter of slavery.

Photography changes what we are willing to believe

Early Photographic Processes  - Manipulation. Photo Manipulation Throughout History: A Timeline. The history of doctoring photographs dates back to the 1860s, only a few decades after Niepce created the first photograph in 1814, photographs were already being manipulated.

Photo Manipulation Throughout History: A Timeline

The nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body. Around the 1910s, photographic composites of different images were created by commercial photographic studios to bring family members together into one picture when they were not together in reality for the portrait session. Photo Tampering throughout History. The Ethics of Digital Manipulation. In the example see above, we have changed the red color of M8, the Lagoon Nebula, whose main spectral emission lies in the red portion of the spectrum, to blue with a simple adjustment in Photoshop.

The Ethics of Digital Manipulation

When photography was first invented, its overwhelming power came from the fact that it recorded nature more realistically than any other art form had ever done before. Photo manipulation. The skin features shown in Portrait of Minnie Driver by Justin Hoch (left) have been manipulated to create the image on the right.

Photo manipulation

Photo manipulation is a process to transform a photograph into a desired image. There are currentlty many different software applications to choose from ranging from professional applications to basic imaging software for the casual user. History[edit] Vintage manipulated photo of World War I battle action including details combined from multiple photos. The photo after retouching, with Yezhov entirely removed Goebbels family portrait photo in which the visage of the uniformed Harald, who was actually away on military duties, was inserted and retouched.

Photo manipulation is as old as photography itself, and its history can be seen as part of the history of image manipulation in general, which can be found already in Ancient Egypt. Political and ethical issues[edit] Contrary to the idea of a photo having inherent verisimilitude. Use in journalism[edit] Digital compositing. Four images assembled into one final image Digital compositing is the process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically for print, motion pictures or screen display.

Digital compositing

It is the evolution into the digital realm of optical film compositing. How The Famous "Dali Atomicus" Photo Was Taken. Before modern, computerized techniques in image manipulation, Latvian-born American portrait photographer Philippe Halsman shot this photograph of the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí suspended in mid-air.

How The Famous "Dali Atomicus" Photo Was Taken

While today this image could easily be replicated in Photoshop, it wasn’t possible in 1948. Philippe Halsman. Dalí Atomicus. 1948. While living in Paris in the 1930s, photographer Philippe Halsman became acquainted with artists of the circle.

Philippe Halsman. Dalí Atomicus. 1948

Beginning in the late 1940s, he collaborated with painter Salvador Dalí on a variety of photographic projects. Dalí Atomicus, perhaps the most iconic image to emerge from this collaboration, is a of Dalí inspired by his painting Leda Atomica (1949). The painting appears in the photograph, to the right of an easel, chairs, cats, water, and Dalí himself, all suspended above the ground. Untitled document. Gelatin silver process. The gelatin silver process is the photographic process used with currently available black-and-white films and printing papers.

Gelatin silver process

A suspension of silver salts in gelatin is coated onto a support such as glass, flexible plastic or film, baryta paper, or resin-coated paper. These light-sensitive materials are stable under normal keeping conditions and are able to be exposed and processed even many years after their manufacture. This is in contrast to the collodion wet-plate process dominant from the 1850s–1880s, which had to be exposed and developed immediately after coating. Photo manipulation. Matt Wisniewski. Embroidered X-Rays It’s all about redefining materials for artist Matthew Cox, as he layers embroidery on top of medical x-rays.

Matt Wisniewski

One material is tactile and labor intensive and the other is technical and quickly a finished product […] Larger Than The LV Life Louis Vuitton has enlisted artist Vincent Bousserez, known best for photographing miniatures in his quirky ‘Larger Than Life’ series, for their latest campaign. Collage photographs by Matt Wisniewski – Transparent.CitiesTransparent.Cities. Matt Wisniewski combines old and new in his beautiful photo collages. Some people create images to make a statement. Others, like Matt Wisniewski, do it because it looks pretty. “It’s mostly just aesthetic,” explains the 21-year-old computer science student of his spectral photo collages. “Whatever looks nice, really.” Untitled document. The art of mulitple exposure with fine art photographer, Christoffer Relander. “My goal as an artist is to be true to who I am, and aim to create art that will stay around for its good cause.” – Christoffer Relander As an experimental fine art photographer, Christoffer Relander applies a technique inspired by multiple exposure to create ‘We Are Nature’: a series of dreamy, surreal images based on the ambiguous relationship between man and nature.

Christoffer Relander. Photographer Christoffer Relander. Illustration: then to now - Fabulous Noble. The art of illustration from cavemen, to Peter Rabbit, to digital illustration. Have you ever wondered what was the first type of illustration? It actually goes all the way back to cave paintings where men and women used the cave walls to illustrate their daily activities. Book illustration came after the invention of the printing press but the Japanese and Chinese cultures had already used woodcuts to accompany hand written books. When do photographs become photo illustrations? It has become fairly obvious that lately that our understanding of what photography is and does has not quite caught up with, well, what it is and does. A wonderful case in point is the attempt to differentiate between “photographs” and “photo illustrations”.

What is the difference? When does a photograph become a “photo illustration”? Photo Manipulation Throughout History: A Timeline. Faking It: A Visual History of 150 Years of Image Manipulation Before Photoshop.