Thursday, September 18, 2014

Team Exercise: Panoramic Montage

Working in teams of two, you must create a panoramic montage that explores the theme of "revitalization."

REVITALIZATION -- revitalize, to give new life to/to give new vitality or vigor to.
awakening, cheering, freshening, reactiviaation, rebirth, recovery, renewal, restoration

Consider what aspect of revitalization do you want to communicate in your montage?
Revitalization of what? Place? Person (mind, body, spirit)? Thing? 


MONTAGE --technique of combining visual elements from various sources into a single composition, giving the illusion that the elements belonged together originally, or to allow each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding meaning to the composition

Technical requirements:

  • Your final montage must be at least 11"x 17" (150 dpi).
  • You must use Photoshop to composite your montage.  
  • You are allowed to use both self generate and found materials in your montage, however if you're using found imagery, it must be copyright free. 
  • Your montage must use combination of at LEAST three of the following Photoshop techniques: Photomerge Tool, Blending Modes (btwn layers), Layer Masking, Blending Tools, Adjustment Layers
  • No Photoshop filters are allowed

Panoramic Technique Tips:

  • Stay in one spot when photographing (focus on a single viewpoint)
  • Take lots of overlapping shots, to help reduce the amount of gaps in the final composite. Images should overlap by approximately 40%.
  • Use manual settings on your digital camera when possible (focal length, exposure, white balance, etc)
  • Technique in Photoshop used combine several photographs into one continous image
           In Photoshop: File > Automate > Photomerge
           In Bridge: Select specific images you want to use, Tools>Photoshop>Photomerge

Due next class (Tuesday, Sept 23, 8:30am):
Experiement with at least 3 different photomerge blend settings (reposition, collage, perspective, spherical, cylindrical) and save each exploration in a seperate PSD file.

Also save your three photomerge PSD files (exploring 3 different photomerge blending settings) as TIF files for review next class.

Bring in scanned/digitized imagery sources to be used in your montage composition.




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