photography techniques- multimedia and scanography

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Multimedia Photography- Multimedia Photography is the use of more than one media to create an image. This could involve painting over a photograph. You could use fabric or paper over the photograph. This technique creates a textured, collage type effect. This first image demonstrates the multimedia photography technique. From the image, it looks as if the artist Maureen Gubia has used paint and perhaps some pencil over the top of the photograph. She has used white and blue paints, and lots of different brush strokes to create added texture. The second image was also created by artist Maureen Gubia. She has created a repetitive pattern over one half of the image. This was probably by using photoshop or another digital technique. It also looks as if she may have added some white paint to the image. As Photography by Maureen Gubia

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Multimedia Photography-

Multimedia Photography is the use of more than one media to create an image. This could involve painting over a photograph. You could use fabric or paper over the photograph. This technique creates a textured, collage type effect. This first image demonstrates the multimedia photography technique. From the image, it looks as if the artist Maureen Gubia has used paint and perhaps some pencil over the top of the photograph. She has used white and blue paints, and lots of different brush strokes to create added texture. The second image was also created by artist Maureen Gubia. She has created a repetitive pattern over one half of the image. This was probably by using photoshop or another digital technique. It also looks as if she may have added some white paint to the image. As some of the white paint overlaps onto the black boarder, she may have printed out the photograph and stuck it onto a black surface.

Photography by Maureen Gubia

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If I were to use the multimedia method myself, I would want to use paint over my photographs. I would try not to use too much paint in order to not distract from the original image. I would like to experiment with adding extra texture and dimension to the image by folding them, creasing them and crinkling them up. I like this idea as it would distort my images without needing to use photoshop. I could consider using fabric or paper over the top of my image, or as a boarder to create nice textures. I could also paint the fabric or card I use, and if I use a method such as paint splattering or a sponge I could give the image another dimension. If I were to use this method I would probably photograph people or scenery. I think it would look good to use images of peoples faces as I could distort their features by printing off the image and folding it up.

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Scanography-

Scanography is the way of creating photographs by using a photocopier. It can enable you to create interesting distorted images, or perfect images or patters using objects under the scanner. By leaving the scanners lid up white scanning, and having your objects or people far away it can create distorted, slightly blurry images. By having something moving around on the scanners surface it can create interesting distortion, and you can see the movement clearly on the image. My first example of the girl and the flowers, you can see that everything that is laying flat on the scanners surface is seen clearly, and everything further away is blurred. My second example is of a rat walking across the scanners surface. In the image you can see exactly where the rat has walked. The rats feet have been multiplied over the image and some of the edges have been distorted outwards and blurred.

Photograph by Whitney Justesen

Photograph by Dorota Pankowska

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If I were to use the Scanography method I would like to use animals as I think that their movement looks really interesting when using this technique. Movement when using the scanography method creates repetitive patterns, blurring and elongation of features. In order to capture an image on a scanner, the subject matter has to be on the screen or facing down towards the screen. Making a person or animal look down at the screen would make their face appear distorted. Another thing I would consider doing is moving objects for myself across the scanners surface. If the object I used had bright colours it may create a very interesting pattern. Though one problem with doing that is that you may be able to see me moving the object in the background.

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