Duane Michals research

D U A N E M I C H A L S
Duane Michals  received a BA from the University of Denver in 1953 and worked as a graphic designer until his involvement with photography deepened in the late 1950s. Michals made significant, creative strides in the field of photography during the 1960s. In an era heavily influenced by photojournalism and its aesthetic, Michals manipulated the medium to communicate narratives using a distinctive pictorial technique. The sequences, for which he is widely known, appropriate cinema’s frame-by-frame format. Comprising single prints, each sequence depicts the unfolding of an event or reveals various perspectives on a specific subject. Michals has also incorporated text as a key component in his single and multipart works. Rather than serving a didactic or explanatory function, his handwritten text adds another dimension to the images’ meaning and gives voice to Michals’s singular musings. Balancing fragility and strength, gravity and humor, Michals’s work represents universal themes such as love, desire, memory, death, and immortality.

I think that mine and duane michals picture are very different i think that duanes tell a story through each photograph. I feel as if my pictures don't tell anything. 

I think the layouts are very similar .

                                           

Fantasy Land

First i took a picture of a landscape and uploaded it to photoshop.

I also took a close up of a goose and uploaded it as another page onto photoshop

Once i uploaded both of my pictures i went to the polygonal tool on the left tool bar to go round the edge  of the goose.

Once i went round the edges there was a few places that wasn't close to the edge so i went to the rubber tool and filled in the place where i needed the line to be closer to the edge once i went round my whole image it looked like this. I clicked on the image and went to edit copy then went back to my landscape and clicked edit copy so it would appear on my other picture.

This is what my first picture looked like when i copied and pasted it to this picture but the goose looked a bit sharp round the edges.

To make the edges more softer i clicked the blur tool to soften the edges.

This is my final image.

Transforming

To transform my image i went to edit transform then wrap. when i clicked this a grid came up then i moved the lines on the grid to make the image look different and move a different way.

My final image

Adding text

To add text you find this tool on the left tool bar

This should come up at the top when you start to write the text you can change the size and font and colour on this tool

This is my final image.

black and white and colour

First i had to drag the picture to the tool next to the bin on the right hand side.

I had to duplicate this image.

I changed the first image to black and white.

I the clicked the erase black and white tool on the right hand side which is high lighted. I then had to go round the flower on which bits i wanted in colour, on some parts i had to zoom to make sure i went round the outline properly for this i had to change my brush to 22 when it was on 52 before going round the edges.

This is my final image

colour adding

First i had to choose the brush tool on your right hand size.

Then i clicked layer new then layer again.

i choose the colour red. i went to the colour tool at the bottom of the tool bar.

i rubbed the tool all over the parts i wanted to change and zoomed in to get it really precise.

 then i had to click overlay so the colour dont look as strong.

i changed the opacity to make the colour lighter but if i wanted to make the colour stronger i would put the opacity up.

This is my final image.

Border

                                                                This is the image i started with.

To start to add the border you click the brush tool which is high lighted above on the tool bar.

To choose which colour you want you click the colour box at the bottom of the tool bar.

you need to go to layer new then layer again.

Once you have gone round the image with the brush it should look like this.

If you dont want the bolder to be so bold you go to filter blur then gaussian blur then click the amount you want it to be blurred 

This is my final image.

Clone image

before

To clone the image you click on this tool the click clone stamp tool.

You hold the alt button then rub the mouse where you want the image to be.

This is after i cloned the picture. 

Liquifying

Before picture.

to edit my picture i went to filter then liquify. This screen shot is when i was on liquify.

To make the features larger i used the Bloat tool on the left tool bar the clicked where i wanted things to be bigger. When i wanted to make things smaller i clicked the pucker tool which was also on the left tool bar. The features that i changed were the eyebrows, eyes, nose and the mouth which you can tell from the before picture. 

After picture.

Layering

This is the first picture i used.

i opened this one in photoshop at the same time as the one above i dragged this image on to the other and changed the size so it would fit the other image.

Once both of the images was on the same sheet i clicked the opacity button on the right tool bar to change how much i wanted the other image to show i put the opacity on 60% to get my picture to look the way it is.

                                                        This is my final layering image.

                                          
                                                My Final image
                                      

 

When you get on to photoshop you go to File new 

 

 

When you get to this you click preset then click international paper

size: A4 and 300 inches

 

Image, Image rotation and 90

i clicked on view then show grid then started to drag my pictures on to photoshop out of my album

When i got my pictures onto photoshop i had to adjust the sizes to match each one

 

i had to make sure each picture was the same size this is why i used

my grid to help me do this.

once i got all my pictures into photoshop i lined them up so they would all be the same size

once i had finished i clicked view show grid again so the grid would go

and then i could see my final piece