Here’s my “completed” montage project;
Courtesy of my school campus, a good friend, and the local art museum.
[[Critique]]
Once again, I was pretty crunched for time on this project. I tend to let myself procrastinate with thinking of ideas and not actually taking action to develop those ideas. So, if I had the chance, what I would change about my montage is my time management. I’m absolutely positive I could have ended up with a nicer result if I had given myself the time and chance to go out and take more photos and play around with it a bit more. One thing that resulted from my not having time was that I originally wanted the background to be clouds, not a tree. It would have been more surreal if it looked like the building she is in were in the sky. But, unfortunately, living in an almost permanently sunny city, days with clouds are rare. So in the few days that I had to take pictures, every day was annoyingly cloudless. And hot. Another thing I would change is maybe putting other people or things in the other two frames, to put more balance in the photo.
Something that I like about my project is the way I had her arms through the two walls. I think it looks pretty realistic, but not perfect or anything. I also like the frames. [I'm not really sure what to call them]. Or I guess you could say the walls/columns. If I had decided to go with putting two more objects in the other two, or a theme that involved three of something, it would have turned out really cool. I also like that I added a different background to the window , I think it makes the picture seem just a little bit off.
The inspiration I drew from for the project was Jerry Uelsmann. His art is amazing.
I liked how he combined man-made things with natural things, but my idea didn’t really incorporate his. What I did use was his use of black and white photos. I think that using black and white for these kinds of photos adds an edge of darkness to the fantasy, which I prefer over the color; to me, that creates a sort of child-like fantasy.
