Mixed Media

 Looking for more inspiration I decided to work on some of my own work. I flicked through some photography magazines and wanted to scan in some images. I found the more interesting images and scanned a few in. I was not sure what I wanted to do specifically but I wanted to edit the images in some way to make them different. I scanned in the images and opened them in Photoshop. I then continued to add objects and random things I could find to experiment further.

 This is when I started to experiment. I started with the images in Photoshop and just played around with the Adjustment features.

I wanted to play around with these features and see if I can create an image that was interesting. I played around with the scanned in images and found that the black and white effect made them look unrealistic. This then caused me to begin to think about whether we can create stories from just one image. I began by starting with one of the scanned in images with a simple black and white effect on it. 

This then lead me to think about colour and the way we use colour to tell stories. I had scanned in a toy gun and loved the idea of creating suspense and tension from just merging items together. This lead to a story beginning and a narrative that is made up. I kept adding images together to create a final image with multiple images on top to create this false world. I also used the black and white effect on all the images to give them a realistic look as if they were on the real image to start with. 

Here are some of the images I created: