I decided to do the composite assignment inspired by collage artist David Hockney.
I wanted to create a creepy, eery, ghostly composition.
To begin, I had a friend take a bunch of photographs of me moving with a slow shutter speed in a dark parking lot under Safeway.
The slow shutter speed makes the images more blurry, and also creates a more ghostly feel to the photos. I thought this would've helped when composing the final image.
I ended with over 100 photos to work with. I began going through them piece by piece and selected areas that I was attracted to. Maybe a part of a wall in one photo, an eye in another...etc. Once I picked out various original pieces, I compiled them into a new image canvas to create a new image. You can see an example in my second photo below.
I had made different variations of my compositions, and with each one I wanted to challenge myself to make them more dynamic. I would play around with Levels, Curves, Duotone, Grayscale and other effects to see what I would come up with. I also would crop different pieces of photos into shapes, such as stripes, circles, and squares to put on the composition. I found that the square composition (last photo in sequence below) was the most successful because it was simple, yet interesting at the same time.
