Work Diary - Photojoiner

Evaluation

I found taking photos to create a photojoiner image to be really entertaining. I was able to take as many pictures of something as I liked and it allowed me to play around with these in photoshop, choosing the best picture with the best angle to include somewhere amongst the collage. What I did find difficult however was judging the amount of photos I took; did I take enough? Did I get the right angles? etc. Creating a photojoiner piece also proved to be a challenge in photoshop when I was trying to make it look the best it could be. I also struggled with creating the overal photojoiner in the beginning as the layers didn't like me very much. However, when I went out to reshoot my "person" photojoiner, the pictures that I captured moulded together a lot easier. Therefore, I discovered that it was the type of picture that was more my problem, not the layers. My finished photojoiner of a person ended up becoming my favourite one, so reshooting it was a positive.

The reason that I found this photo joiner to be my most successful was because you can tell what it is without it being so obvious. The pictures that I took allowed me to create a photo joiner that worked, whereas when I tried to do my other photo joiner with the other pictures it didn't work at all. I took more close ups with Josh so that I had more to work with. I also like the fact that he has three legs in the picture, when in real life he has only two but his three legs are portrayed discretely through the image being a photo joiner. 

Out of the three photo joiners that I made, I'd say that this one was my least successful. Even though it looks like a photo joiner because the subject is not clear, the pictures that I took didn't mould together very effectively. I took a lot of different angles of the building so some didn't fit as well as they could have. Something that I do quite like is the quirkiness of the enlarged door handle as this makes the photo joiner even more interesting as the viewer will focus on this, so the image being larger means that it's a focal point.

Progression

For my progression, I would love to create a photojoiner picture of a face close up so I could jumble up the facial features and be creative with it. I'm also interested in taking multiple pictures of two faces next to eachother and making a photojoiner image that includes their features mixed with eachothers, so one side of their noses could be on the other persons face etc. I'd like to perfect my pictures until I created a photojoiner photograph that looked slightly professional. An example of a close up photo joiner of a face that inspires me has been inserted below. Lots of tiny pictures of her facial features have been taken so that this was the result, and I really like it.