Joiners Work Diary

Planning

Evaluation and Progression

  Here I used Photoshop to create a more unique joiner. I like this because I have layered different images on top of the original images which include his face/body from different angles. I adjusted the capacity setting on Photoshop which helped me to create the fading effect on some particular images. I really like this joiner because it creates an illusion. I could possibly add further images to the joiner to make it more interesting.

Evaluation and Progression

  I used a similar technique as the joiner above when focusing on this one. I took small scale images of separate parts of her body in the studio. I then used Photoshop to make adjustments to each of the smaller photos before I merged them all together to make this joiner. I joined images together which obviously did not match together accurately, which creates an illusion. I think that this piece of work is successful in showing my ability to use Photoshop to the standard in which I require. I like this joiner because it is not perfect, not every image is accurately matched with the corresponding one. 

Progression 

  To further progress this project I could try to use different objects to join together. For example, taking images of different parts of the flower and joining them together. I could also try to work with images of a building and join them together. This would add variety to my work rather than just photographing people. 

Joiners Image Bank

Joiners straight images

I really like this joiner that I have completed because the fading effect of particular angles of his face is an alternative but more intriguing way of presenting joiners. It makes it more confusing and random, which is commonly the effect that joiners ate meant to have. I could turn this picture into black and white because I think it would supply a particular interesting effect.



I think that this joiner worked particularly well because I managed to fit together most of the pieces accurately.  I think the size scale I have managed to represent accurately also.  I like how the colours are different in each picture (for example, her jacket is two different greens in two different pictures) because it shows how individual pictures may differ from others. To edit this, I could use Photoshop to change it into black and white because I think this particular joiner would be more effective and it means we focus more on the unique and unusual shape that joining pictures together makes. 

Joiners Definitions

Joiners - In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photocollages, which he called "joiners," first of Polaroid prints and later of 35mm, commercially processed color prints. 


  This is an image of a crowded town which has been assembled by someone. They have misplaced some parts of the picture, turned pieces around to create different angles. We as human beings can work out what is happening within the picture despite the picture being aligned and set out how we imagine it in our heads. This is why I find the topic joiners interesting.

Examples of David Hockney's work: