Artist Research - David Hockney

David Hockney created his joiners by taking multiple polaroid photographs of the same thing from different angles, this one is of a man sitting, I like his joiners because they are usually almost perfect, with small imperfections like the foot being at a weird angle. With joiners we are able to see multiple sides to the same object/person in one photograph.

This joiner by David Hockney is really nice in my opinion, it looks like the pool is busy with lots of people at first, however, it is actually multiple photographs of the same person in the pool, I think it is very creative of Hockney to have done it like this and I think it creates a really good effect.

For me, this joiner is one of my favourites because at first glance it looks perfectly normal, but when you look at it for longer, you notice that one of the girls has four legs! It is probably his most morphed joiner and I think that it creates a really childish effect, these children obviously didn't sit still for the photographs, they fidgeted a lot like children do, which meant many of the photographs are a lot different

David Hockney has inspired me because he's made me think less about my photograph looking perfect, sometimes imperfection is better, in addition he has made me think about taking photographs from multiple angles, rather than just sticking with one and only coming out with four good pictures. I have learnt to explore with my photography more.

Computer Experiment Five

This is a joiner that I created, I think that it actually worked quite well and is probably my best joiner of the three I created, I don't think that this is a effect that I would use often as it is quite time consuming, however if done right, it can look really good.

To do this photograph, I had to take photographs of Fern from lots of different angles, this took quite a while because I didn't want them to have much shadowing on them because it would've looked really bad. 

Once I had the photographs, I had to create a new photo with nothing on it and drag photographs on after, I only used five photos to make this but I think that it looks quite good.

How I Made Joiners

How I made Joiners

I made my joiners digitally on photoshop, however it was originally done by laying out polaroids, I also did mine differently from originally in that I overlapped my photographs, in the original way they didn't overlap at all, they were laid next to each other. I firstly made a plain A4 sized document on photoshop, then I put all of the photos I took of the object/person etc onto photoshop as well, I then went through all the photos and chose the ones that looked best and put them on the plain document. I then was able to arrange them however I wanted. Because they were in different layers it meant that I wouldn't accidentally move any of the others by accident.

Work Diary - Joiners

Work Diary - Joiners

In this lesson we took a lot of photos of one thing so that we could merge them together to create a new photo, I did one of a face, one of a vase and one of a building, however I didn't take enough pictures of the building so this joiner wasn't very good. This was quite a difficult task and although it was dragged over two days, I was still only able to make three joiners in total because of how many photos were needed for each joiner, I did enjoy this task even though it was quite difficult.

Progression: Next time I will spend longer getting pictures, that way I will not need to work too hard on trying to make a photograph out of nothing.

In my opinion this is my best joiner because it looks like what it was originally, although slightly warped, however it probably would've been better if I was able to find a coloured vase as this one is quite hard to see at parts.

I think this is my worst photo because it doesn't fit together properly and I didn't get enough photographs to make it well. Also the colours aren't the same, some of the photos are a lot darker than others which doesn't merge to make a good joiner.

Contact Sheet - Joiners

 

Definition Post - Joiners

Joiners

A joiner is a photographic technique in which one picture is assembled from several overlapping photographs. It can be created from prints or created digitally on a computer. A panograph is distinct because overlapping edges of photographs aren't removed.

A joiner is a photographic technique in which one picture is assembled from several overlapping photographs. It can be created from prints or created digitally on a computer.

A panograph is distinct because overlapping edges of photographs aren't removed.

This is an example of joiners, it was made by taking lots of photos from different angles and different positions and then merging them together to create one photo, it is quite odd because the boys face has moved a lot.

This photograph is another example of a joiner,  however it doesn't have as much movement as the other joiners,  really like this because it is quite simple, there isn't a lot going on but David Hockney made it look very busy.

Image Bank - Joiners

Image Bank - Joiners

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This is an example of a joiner, it is one of the joiners made by David Hockney, who was the creator of joiners, I like this style of photography because it shows a lot of movement, the boy obviously moved around a lot during this photo-shoot which creates the affect that there is a lot of people.

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This is another example of a joiner, however it is a digitally made joiner, it is also different because the photographs overlap each other, I think this looks quite good but I prefer David Hockney's version of joiners personally because I think it looks better, this looks too perfect, everything fits together and there aren't really lines out of place in the photographs.

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This is another example of a joiner by David Hockney, I think this looks good because although we can see what the photograph is about, we don't really know what is going on because it's quite cluttered, I can't tell if it's on the table or if it's on floor for example.

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This example of joiner photography was most likely made on photoshop, I like this quite a lot because it is more like David Hockney's joiner works, the picture is a lot more messed up than the other one I looked at that was done on photoshop.

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This joiner is really nice in my opinion because you can tell what it is meant to be and it mostly fits together, there are bits of the face that aren't right but it looks good, as if the person has moved whilst the photos being taken, however the arms are mostly in proportion and fit together quite well.