Straight Images - Multiple Imagery Improvements

Image Bank - Multiple Imagery

Multiple Imagery's are pieces that tell a story through more than just one picture. The photographer takes a range of different pictures of one thing and then merges them together separated by a thin white grid to mask together one overall picture. It's extremely creative and so many different things can be done with this topic. Below are six pictures demonstrating multiple imagery. If one photograph can speak a thousand words, then nine or twelve etc. can speak thousands more. In my opinion, multiple imagery is a topic that can makes a boring photograph interesting. You don't have to focus on just one subject, instead you can take pictures of small sections to then physically create the image. Multiple imagery could also perhaps show more than one facet of an object, place or person.

This multiple imagery piece has been created by the photographer taking a picture with the frame filled by two different block colours. They've then slid across the wall and taken another one similar with a different colour. From this picture I assume that the original image would have been one long landscape brick wall painted all kinds of different colours. The grid  breaks up the length of the wall, making it more like a multicoloured building from somewhere like Tobermory or buildings by the beach.

This piece portrays a journey of someone through only nine pictures. At first they start off standing up straight on a patch of grass. Five pictures into this piece and they're half way under the ground. By the 9th picture the model is nowhere to be seen, only a dark black oval shaped pile of mud in the centre of that specific picture. This multiple imagery demonstrates the process of someone being burried or sinking which could be interpreted as a deep meaning.

This is just a simple picture of an old fashioned telephone demonstrated through 25 individual pictures. This doens't include the white grid so it makes the picture look more like a constructed piece rather than separate sections of the subject.

Here the model has posed in three different styles: facing left, straight on and right. As a finished piece it has been built up as one single picture of what could look like three different models, when in fact it's just one person. That's the ability of a multiple image.

This would have to be my favourite multiple imagery piece; it's so incredibly detailed and perfected with precise pictures. The photographer has intentionally zoomed in on certain areas of the woman's limbs and placed them all around her original body to make it look as though she's performing all of these crazy actions when really she only has two feet and two hands, not ten. An interpretation that could be revealed from this piece would be the photographer attempting to apply the sea life to human beings, as the model looks like a crazy octupus which would be impossible for her to look like in real life naturally. I think this would make a fantastic picture for a dance agency advertising themselves.

This multiple imagery is humorous as well as fascinating. It demonstrates all kinds of different mouth poses that many people act. It includes people of difference races to portray equality and perhaps women aswell as men also; it's difficult to tell a man from a woman by a mouth apart from facial hair. Overall this image is clever and amusing and a different example of multiple imagery, as instead of one mouth having an assortment of pictures taken from it, a variety of different mouths have been used to create this composition.

Work Diary - Multiple Imagery

Evaluation

During Thursday's photography session we were asked to go out and shoot pictures to compose a 'multiple imagery' piece. I either focused on one object and photographed different sections or photographed something on a variety of different backgrounds such as my feet and a leaf. I enjoyed taking pictures from the distance along with close ups to merge them into one piece when finalising my multiple imagery's. It was interesting creating the multiple imagery's because most of the object ones don't flow from one image to the next through the white gap, but this wasn't necessary as overall you are able to tell what it is that I've taken a photograph of. I especially felt like a photographer when I decided to sit on the floor outside and put my feet up onto a wall to accomplish pictures on block colour backgrounds such as the orange and pink ones in the multiple imagery of my feet. It's deceiving because from the multiple imagery piece below you're unable to tell that in some of them I'm not actually standing up.

My favourite multiple imagery piece from the session would have to be the one above. It was difficult choosing the most successful one out of 10, but this kept calling out to me each time I saw it. In this picture I've stood on top of a variety of different things such as grass, leaves, stones and metal rails but also sat down on the floor and put my feet up onto a wall that I felt would look effective beneath my feet. Exacmples of these would be the orange and pink background which I think are two of the best because my boots don't blend in with the background; they stand out. I also like how the position of my feet are almost identical in every picture. It allows the viewer to focus on that rather than there being too much going on in each individual photo.

In my opinion this was by far the worst and less creative multiple imagery piece that I created. Most importantly this picture is completely dull and moody. The puddle already exhales a negative vibe as this represents rain and chilly, crispy winter days that nobody enjoys experiencing. There's an extreme lack of colour introduced in this picture which makes it less attractive and eye catching. If I was scrolling through multiple imagery pictures I'd rush straight past this one which is why I believe it was an unsuccessful attempt.

Progression

To excel my quality of photographing multiple imagery I would like to capture pictures of somebody's face or certain features of their face pulling a range of expressions. For example, I would take around nine photographs of an eye performing all different actions such as a wink, a surprised eye or a squinty eye etc. I think this would create a really intriguing piece. I would ensure that my photographs had bursts of colour to catch the viewer's eye as this for me is the main formal element that absorbs someone's attention. I'm also interested in lips as a multiple imagery because you can face paint lips with different designs and styles and add bright bold lipstick to enhance the lips shape. Below I have inserted a few multiple imagery's that inspire me.

Straight Images - Multiple Imagery