Lets Manipulate

Lets Manipulate

Being able to take a picture and changing its original state is giving the image a new chance at its life. In this century, photo manipulation plays somewhat of a big part in the images we see. We are able to imagine the unthinkable with manipulating photos digitally. In this case, I took a photo from the Bain Collection (http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.15081/) which was produced with a glass negative and assessed the ways I put forth to express my ideas about the portrait. I assessed the copyright of the image because I believe I had a responsibility to the photographer and if he/she didn't want me to contribute to this creation then the photographer would pose restrictions that prevent any alterations. When consulted with officials regarding the photo, I was told that the image had no copyright restrictions since the image was captured before 1923 and items created 1923 never had their copyright renew.

From there, I moved forward with the process and started brainstorming what I can do with the image. I wanted to give my own interpretation on the photo and what I saw in the portrait of R.Sacket. My interpretation was that what the portrait would like if it was in colour. I used Abode Photoshop to carry out altering the image and I separated the different parts of image into different layers so it would be easier for me to focus on the individual layers. Each layer was unique and there different details that I had to look at and try to show it in my final image. As I isolated each layer, I was also able to concentrate on individual colourization. I didn't want to go over the top with this picture and wanted to make the image look simple. I wanted to give a simple overhaul to this picture because I didn't want to make the picture feel out of place if I used elements that would be relevant to this generation.

Alerting the image to my own interpretation showed me that I can completely change how a photo looks like and most people wouldn't even know that this was a picture dated by to 1923. I was allowed to embrace history to give my own interpretation on this photo to make viewers think about everything that they look whether it is original or not.

With the other photo, when i went to old Montreal and came upon a copper statue. I was fascinated with the rich history that the city had. I used photo manipulation to make photo look outdate and developed manually when it was taken with a digital camera. I changed the whole colour scheme of the photo and make it look nostalgic with alerting the photo. The manipulated photo reminds of what things could look like before any digitalization was discovered