Manipulated Photography Assignments
Group 1 - Composite Images
Images Composed of more than one Photograph
All photos must be action photos where the subjects are doing something (fishing, riding a horse, climbing) that requires them to be touching something in the photo (fishing rod, dance pole the horse) in a natural looking way. People should be at least ½ the height of the picture unless prior approval given.
1. Disproportionate Photograph - Take one of your pictures and either change the scale of an object, objects or people in the picture. You may also use objects or people from other pictures. (people, cat)
2. Where am I? - Take a picture of a friend or have someone take a picture of you. Then, find another picture of a place that you would not expect to see a person. Put yourself or your friends in that surprising place. You must be interacting with the place to make it look real. (person, lollypop, shadows) (
3. Untruthful Photograph - Take a picture and add some things to the
picture that wasn't there. Must not be able to tell they were added. (person, fishing rod, tackle box, shadows) Combine several pictures into one to make an impossible scene (gymnast doing a hand stand on the parallel bars with a picture of the same gymnast pushing up her glasses). .
4. Distorted untruthful photograph – distort or morph two different pictures into one or take a picture and distort part of it (mouth) and add something (duck) that can’t be real but make it look real).
5. Photo Collage - Take many images or parts of images of the same thing or different things and combine them to create a new image.
6 Surrealism - An art movement started in Paris around 1924 based on ideas of expressing the unconscious. An aspect of this movement was to combine objects that had nothing to do with one another into one image. Create an image which combines two things that would not ordinarily go together.
7. Art Additions - Select an appropriate work of art and add yourself or someone you know. You may simply add a person's head or place an entire person in a painting. They must be made to look like they were painted (paint effect) and fit into the picture as if they were there when it was painted.