Thursday, June 11, 2015

Week 6 Weekly Photo: Collage

A collage is a work of art composed of numerous materials, such as paper, newsprint, photographs, ribbons or other objects attached to background support, such as plain paper. A collage can even be made with physical materials or electronic images, attaching them to a digital background. Originating from the French word "coller", meaning "to glue", the collage allows you to experiment with a wide range of materials to achieve amazing end results. This article provides a sample of the many possibilities limited only by your creativity and imagination. By definition, a collage should be made up of several different pieces. Those pieces can be made of all sorts of items, such as paper, yarn, fabric, stamps, magazine cut-outs, plastic, raffia, foil, labels, lids, matchsticks, corks, natural items (bark, leaves, seeds, eggshells, seashells, twigs, etc.), buttons, and so forth. You can either choose one medium such as paper or fabric, or you can make an eclectic mix, such as paper, buttons and foil. My Collage was compiled through photoshop. And instead of using a variety of images I used the same image but split up the different sections with different effects. The original image was taken at Hyde Bellagio during one of their nightclub events. The DJ is locally known as DJ Loczi a local resident DJ that often plays at Bellagio. This Night I was a photographer and I brought one of my lenses with the intent to create a cool image. The lens I used was a 15mm Fisheye from Canon. My settings set to shutter speed 1/100s and the F-stop was set to F4 and the ISO was set to 2000.  The goal was to be able to capture a symmetrically composed shot behind his DJ  boards. I was able to time out the shot perfectly where he was raising his hands up and the background was lit by a wall of LEDs. 

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