Shoot 1 - David Hockney Inspired Shoot

David Hockney Inspired Shoot:

After looking into David Hockney's work I was inspired to interpret his images, using the idea of landscapes. I traveled to Prayz De Lyz in the France Alps and used the scenery and view from there, I chose this landscape scene, because I had access to get very high up levels and achieve a full landscape view of the surroundings. The shoot was successful because the weather was bright so my surrounding was clear to the camera lens making the images that are produced on the contact sheets below more refine. Another positive thing about this shoot was I was able to get a variety of images because I was able to access higher levels. Leading on from that point, because I was able to achieve a variety of images this gave me more compositions to look at which I came to choosing image I'm going to edit.

What was a struggle with shoot was the aperture setting on the digital camera, because the snow was white and the shoot was completed at midday which meant the sun was at the highest point in sky and was reflecting off the snow making my images extra bright when I took an image, this occur every time I changed position on the Alps making it very hard to get a perfect focused image. The light exposure on these image was very important because having to much light would take over the image and take away the detail within the image.

Shooting List:

1. Date: 17th February 2015.
2. Place: Pray De Lyz, French Alps.
3. Time: Midday.
4. Lighting: N/A
5. Subject: inspired shoot from David Hockney.
6. Reasons: to develop knowledge on how David Hockney composed his images.
7. Problems: Aperture Settings and the sun placing in the sky.
8. Props Used: Digital Camera

After Completing the shoot I selected the images with the most interesting composition from thee above contact sheets, what the images also needed to have was the correct lighting exposure so the picture wasn't over filled with sunlight.
The three images to the left are the (edited) images I selected, the very bottom one of the three I believe shows the most similarity to Hockney's image of the road in the dessert. The way it is similar is the way the composition of the ski slope running down the center of the image like the road is in his image.

How To Edit

1. To edit these images I opened them up one at a time in Photoshop.

2. I then cropped down the images size, this edited the images composition by changing the focal point of the image and the placing of the objects inside the image, on all of the images this made them look more interesting to view.

3. After changing the sizing of the image and compositions, in Photoshop there is a tool I selected which let me edit the contrast in the image, I altered the Contrast levels and I also selected the tool which let me alter the saturation. My reasons for altering these levels of the image is because David Hockney's images looked like they had been painted as certain colors were vibrant and not everything is the image had the realistic look to it, almost as though they were cartoon.

Editing Continued...

1. After editing the above three images through Photoshop I continued to edit them manually (the contact sheet to the left shows the development of the editing stages), I had the Images printed off as A3.

2. On the back of the printed images I drew Linear lines, one with triangles and one with squares and rectangles.

3. From the linear line I used a standing knife to cut down the lines to create these shapes.

4. After getting all the shapes together I put together the original photo image.

5. From the putting together the original photo image I then started the change the angle of the cut out piece and spread them out to give me my Final Images which are displayed below.

 Reviews

Looking at the final outcome of these images, I believe I was able to accomplish the same outcome to David Hockney's Final images. I believe this because I was able to bring across the abstractness that David Hockney's projected in his images. What I changed in my images was the shapes I cut my photos into; I cut the top image into triangles, I liked the way the overall image turned out because the triangles gave the image more edges and also gave the overall image a more of a shape texture feel. What I also like about the image is that the triangles make the image more intriguing to look at. However the second over all image below I cut into squares/rectangles, this was inspired by David Hockney's image, the rectangles give the image a abstractness like the triangles but however but across to the audience a more smooth texture feel towards to the images.
What I want to work is trying another way the make my images more abstract and to remove the white gaps between the spaces of each of the images. What I dislike overall is how dark the images of the scenery are, as David Hockney's images are light and colourful. I hope to put these adjustment into action in my next shoot which is a development, I will be using People and building photographs and see which of the two work best.