Creating my 50+ Joiner photo

I had been out to take my photos for my final joiner photograph. I opened up photoshop, opened automate and selected Photomerge.  

Once in photomerge i selected "reposition" meaning that photoshop will put all of my pictures together in place, like a jigsaw. I then opened up all of the photos i had taken into photoshop and clicked "ok".

It took some time for photoshop to analyse all of the pictures and fit them together as there were so many pictures, even though i had taken them all in the smallest size! 

Photoshop had now repositioned all of the pictures for me and gave me my full joiner image. 

I then added in a new fill layer and chose solid colour so that i could create a background for around the edges of the joiner photo.

I chose to make the new fill layer black as i felt it was most suitable as it is not distracting and works best around the edges of the photo.

I have now put the solid colour fill layer in place as a border/background for the photo. I then decided to change the size of the photograph to make it smaller. This would mean it would take less time to upload onto the internet and take up less space.

Once i had resized the photo to a size i felt right, i saved the photo for wed devices. This means that the photo will be sized and already fitted for websites and uploading.

I then saved the picture to my desktop with the format "images only".

This is my Final image containing over 50+ photographs to create the joiner photograph. In the photo you can see that i took pictures of my legs and feet fro different angles. When photoshop added all of the photos together, the different angles of my legs confused it and therefore they were added as separate bodies. I could have chosen to edit this out of the photograph but i decided i quite liked the effect.

Diane Arbus research.

I think that this is a rather dramatic photograph, with strain of emotion and anger being shown through the boy. I think this because of how the boy is standing, he is confronting the camera. The way he is tensing and clenching his hand gives the impression of frustration and the grenade gives me the impression of anger and hate.

Final 50+ Joiner photograph

For my final picture i will be using over 50 photographs combined to create a joiner photo.
I am going to use the atrium as my landscape with the trees included, i will also be including my feet in to the photo.
When taking the photo i will need to keep the photos on a small format. This makes sure the finished photo is not too large a file and it will be quicker to upload and manage.
When i went out to take the photos i ended up taking a lot more than i expected. When i got back and tried to upload them all into a joiner photo but there were too many photos and the computer could not do it.
I am going to have to go back down and re-take the photos, making sure that this time i take less.

Photography joiner of faces

This is a joiner photo using 5 different pictures of friends i then cropped a strip from each face and fitted them all together.

Examples of graphic image makers

The difference between Photomontage and joiner

PhotoMontage 

The technique of making a picture by assembling pieces of photographs, often in combination with other types of graphic material.
Technique by which a composite photographic image is formed by combining images from separate photographic sources

Joiner
involves the use of two or more separately taken images of a single scene to create a larger one by physically overlapping them or by digitally merging them. It differs from montage photography in that it looks to expand the area of view of the photograph as opposed to insert several elements into a given picture frame. From this point on there are many directions to take the image in terms of shape, viewpoints, subject, narrative, time and style. These all involve more personal choices by the creator and provide the potential for a more intimate and individually driven photograph.

Polaroid joiner

I took these photos in the studio using two light box's placed on the left and right hand side of the model.  

I took a series of photographs of different areas of the model with the plan to join them up for the end product. I took 7 photos for this joiner but I only chose to use 5 as it was too crowded with photos and the other two pictures did not fit in. I used a Polaroid software which creates polaroid style images from, digital files. 

For this joiner i wanted to create more of a collage/jigsaw style where it has just been matched up to create the full picture. 

This joiner is more formal and set up in a way where you have to imagine the pictures together yourself. It creates a very different view on the end product. It becomes more of a display rather than an end image.

Using Polaroid has given my photos different colours that do not match one another and in a joiner photo i want to make the photos all join up so it looks like one whole picture but with the photos being different colours this is a lot less effective because they dont look like a part of the same photo.