DEVELOPMENT IMAGES.

DEVELOPMENT IMAGES.

Some more development images that I have been making. I used a Martin Parr photograph the top 5 images as a background and later cut out the cake and used it on a few other images shown here. I'm really enjoying playing with the view of the images themselves. I quite like cropping in very close so only slight parts of the image can be seen. I also like the idea of using repetitive images. It links in with the idea of stereotypical traits of a women since they can be viewed as a repetitive action, whether its the washing up or cooking. A thought that I had whilst making these images was that although I am focusing on stereotypical traits, I feel that sometimes the line between stereotypes and reality can blur a little. But then again I am focusing on them from a male's perspective thus they do remain a stereotype, if an annoying one at that.

DEVELOPMENT IMAGES.

These are my first PS collages! I really enjoyed making these due to how I could play around with the scale a lot quicker than going backwards and forwards with the photocopier. I really wanted to play around with the composition and PS allowed me to crop my work in whatever way I wanted. I also like how the brown paper background compliments my images well, since I wasn't too sure on how it was all going to look.

RESEARCH - IMAGES.

I've been looking at using different backgrounds to place my images on and using PS it allows me to scan in my own backgrounds or other found imagery. These are just a few that I have found and decided to play around with to help start me off. They are just scanned in notebook pages, brown paper and I even came across some love letters/old recipes to work on top of.

REFLECTION.

I've been really enjoying creating photo montages with various image but I'd like to see what it would be like to create them on the computer. I want to scan some of my sketchbook pages in and see what I can come up with using Photoshop. I think using PS to create collages with will give an interesting feel to my work, with the mix of cut out images against ones found from the internet.

SKETCHBOOK.

These images were a mixture of two ideas. The first two are aimed towards the cooking aspect and view of women. I wanted to keep my images fun and also played with partially hiding the face again. In this case I made little mask that was shaped like a chefs hat. This was to keep the idea of cooking very much in the image. The second two images were related to the idea of beauty. The first out of the two was to highlight a women always being made up, having her full face of make up on. But I also chose to give her oversized lips to also hint at 

SKETCHBOOK.

I played around with composition again today and really liked how these came out. I enjoyed placing images onto different backgrounds, like the first picture, and want to apply this to other bits of work to see what the outcome is. These images were all based towards the sexualisation  of a woman but I still tried to keep them light hearted and fun. I also want to play around with adding text to my images since I feel that will help with making my images that bit clearer.