Virtual Gallery of Final Joiners

I made these Virtual Galleries using Adobe Photoshop.

Evaluation

Joiner 1

This was the first joiner I made. I chose this location at first as I thought it would have given me the opportunity to capture relationships between people and incorporate them in my joiner. I personally don’t think that this is my strongest joiner as the images hadn’t been taken using the best camera settings. This has made some of the images not fully in focus and some over-exposed. On the other hand, I like that I have used Gaussian blur for some of the segments as it gives the image an abstract feel and relates to my artist reference, Stephen McNally. This joiner is similar to Stephen McNally’s work as I have used both a range of exposures and a blurred effect. These are features which are prominent in his work. Furthermore, this joiner relates to David Hockney’s work as it displays relationships which is something that was common in his work. The relationships in Hockney’s work were personal to him, however, in my joiner I displayed other people’s personal relationships. Moreover, in my joiner, I have displayed movement which is something that Hockney attempted to display in his work. The movement in my work is shown by the path and the people walking along it and by the guy cycling with the motion blur. Finally, this joiner also opposes to David Hockney’s as it is not the most realistic representation of La Fregate as many things have been manipulated such as the name sign which isn’t usually there. Personally, I would say that this joiner is a good combination of both of the styles of my artist references.

Joiner 2

This is one of my personal favourite joiners. I really like how I have managed to display the bus and a boat. The bus emphasises tourism and how people travel to visit Gorey Castle, a landmark in Jersey. The boat is to show that the area is a harbour and to emphasise maritime, which became a theme in my joiners. I would say that this joiner is more similar to David Hockney’s style of work as it is more of a realistic depiction of Gorey Castle and the area around it, rather than abstract like Stephen McNally. On the other hand, this joiner consists of larger photos which have a range of exposures, similar to Stephen McNally. Stephen McNally tends to use larger images and he forms a joiner with them using Photoshop, which is what I did, however, Hockney used a lot of smaller images and formed them by hand. Overall, this joiner is a combination of both of their styles but is most like David Hockney.

Joiner 3

This is a joiner of the Steam Clock in St Helier. I initially chose the steam clock to be a subject of my work as I thought that it was similar to the subjects of Stephen McNally’s work, specifically around the docks in Liverpool. This is because it is a freestanding structure, alike the carousel and the Liverpool eye which McNally photographed. I have used a range of exposures and a blurred effect which to give the final outcome an abstract effect, alike Stephen McNally. I personally don’t think that this joiner has any key similarities to David Hockney as it is colourful and abstract, whereas Hockney’s joiners were often very dull but realistic.

Joiner 4

This is my other favourite joiner which I did. I made this one, along with the Gorey Castle one, by hand in my exam. I personally really like this joiner as I like how there’s lots going on and I think that it’s very aesthetically pleasing to look at. I have combined the styles of both of my artist references with this joiner by making it look realistic yet using a range of exposures. I also wanted to use a range of exposures so that I could emphasise each individual segment of my joiner. I wanted to make it clear that my joiner had been formed using many pieces. I think that this work also differs from both of my artist references as they both have very muted tones and not much colour in their joiners but this photograph does have a lot of colour, specifically blue tones. Some of McNally’s photographs do have blue tones but they’re often much darker.

Joiner 5

This is my least favourite joiner as I think that it’s just not very interesting. This Joiner is most similar to David Hockney’s work as it is very realistic. I have used a range of photographs of the area from different angles to reform the landscape to its original form. Although I am not keen on this joiner, I do also like it for a few reasons. Some of these reasons include the fact that I have an interest in Architecture and this joiner displays a range of different styles. I also like how I managed to capture the plane in the sky.

Overall, my joiners can all be linked to Maritime. La Fregate is linked to Maritime as the building has the nickname “the upside-down boat”. Gorey Castle links to Maritime as it has a harbour, alike St Aubin’s Harbour which was the subject of another of my joiners. The steam clock links to Maritime as it is there to signify Jersey’s long association with the sea. Finally, the joiner of St Aubin links to Maritime as it features the sea and the area has significant Maritime history. The fact that each of these joiners can be linked together creates Unity within my work.

I have decided that I would like to create a joiner using this one image. I have chosen this specific image as I think that it relates to the theme of union due to the display of relationships. In this image, there are many different relationships on show when you look closely such as father and daughter, friends/family, mother and daughter and father and son. These relationships link to union as union, as a noun, is used to describe when people or things come together.

I started this off my opening the image in Photoshop and creating a new guide layout. I made this guide layout 10 by 7 so that each segment would be a square.

I then adjusted the image so that it would fit the grid. I would like there to be a slight gap between each image so that the outcome will be similar to Hockney’s “Swimming Pool”.

I then cropped each small image piece by copy and pasting the whole image, selecting a piece, selecting the piece’s inverse, deleting the inverse then deselecting. I repeated this process until I had a complete image.

I then removed the guide.

I then adjusted the brightness and contrast of the different fragments. I wanted there to be a significant difference in brightness to make the final outcome more interesting and abstract.

I then made a few more adjustments to get my final result:

This result did not turn out how I had envisioned. I personally prefer it before I made changes to the brightness and contrast. I also think it would have been better if I didn’t split the little girl into 4 and, rather, displayed her as a whole as you can barely see her.

I started off by making a mock-up on Powerpoint.

I then colour-coded the images I used and cropped them.

I then made this joiner in Photoshop.

After finishing putting this joiner together in Photoshop, I changed the brightness and contrast of each of the images. I also added another image fragment to the bottom left.

I made a few more small tweaks and this is my final result:

I also made a version using Gaussian Blur:

Photoshoot Plan

I didn’t originally plan on this photoshoot, however, when I was taking photos of St Aubin’s harbour I thought it would be a good idea to take photos of the hill on the other side as I thought it looked good. This will also create a further sense of Unity in my work as the subjects of my joiners all link.

Camera Settings

I used Shutter Priority with an ISO of 100 and a shutter speed of 1/800.

Contact Sheet

Image Selection

I started off this joiner by, once again, creating a mock-up on Powerpoint.

I then selected the images in Lightroom and cropped them so that they were the same.

I exported these images into Photoshop and formed my joiner.

I then changed the brightness, contrast and exposure of each of the segments separately to get my final result:

Photoshoot Plan

For this photoshoot, I wanted to create a joiner of St Aubin’s Harbour. I wanted to do this photoshoot as I thought it would link well to my previous two joiners, creating unity in my work.

Camera Settings

For this photoshoot, I used Shutter Priority with an ISO of 100 and shutter speed of 1/800.

Contact Sheet

Image Selection

I started off by making a mock-up again on Powerpoint. After finishing this mock-up, I decided that I wanted to make the final image a square as the photos matched up at the edges.

I then selected the images I used and cropped them in Lightroom.

After this, I opened them in Photoshop and formed my joiner.

I then added a Gaussian Blur to some of the image fragments.

After this, I altered the brightness, contrast and exposure of each of the images to get my final result.

This is my final joiner:

Photoshoot Plan

For this photoshoot, I wanted to get many images of the Steam Clock in St Helier to create a joiner. I thought that this would be a good subject for a joiner as it is a landmark at the marina which reflects Jersey’s long association with the sea. This relates to ‘Union’ as Jersey’s economy was built from its maritime history. This maritime history also created unity amongst islanders and with the countries they traded with.

Camera Settings

For this photoshoot, I used an ISO of 100 and a shutter speed of 1/640 so that my images wouldn’t be over-exposed.

Contact Sheet

Image Selection

I started off my joiner by creating a mock-up using a powerpoint slide again. I used the images which I had colour-coded as green in Lightroom.

I then made sure to colour-code each image I had used in blue and then I cropped each of these images as to how they were in the joiner.

I then exported these images and inserted them into Photoshop. I used these images to form my joiner, imitating the mock-up I had made.

I then individually edited the image segments, changing their brightness and contrast. I decided that for this joiner I didn’t want to add any blur like my last one as I want it to be more of a landscape image than an abstract one.

This is my final joiner:

I would like to also make this joiner by hand so I separated the images on 2 separate A3 sheets in Photoshop so that the images can be printed to the right size. When I make this by hand, I will be able to just cut these images out then stick them down together.

Photoshoot Plan

For this photoshoot, I wanted to capture Gorey Castle and the buildings below it to create a photo joiner. I thought that this would be a good subject for a photo joiner as castles can relate to ‘Union’ in many ways. Some ways in which Gorey Castle relates to the theme of ‘Union’ is that it was built for defence and soldiers would work in unity to defend against the French invasion. Gorey Castle is also a historical landmark in Jersey as it was the Island’s primary fortress until being replaced by Elizabeth Castle in the 16th century.

Camera Settings

Since it was a very sunny day when I took these photos, I used an ISO of 100 and a fast shutter speed.

Contact Sheet

Image Selection