Scott Hazard (Ripped Pictures)

Scott Hazard (Ripped Pictures)

This is the first Scott Hazard inspired picture I made with my own pictures. I tried a few for practise using pictures from the Internet before this. This is a picture of Crater Lake that I took last Summer in Oregon. The holes themselves are really small as I zoomed in to create them. I had seven layers that I gradually burnt as I went along.  

This is my second Scott Hazard inspired picture. This is a picture of the Grand Canyon that I took a few summers ago (2011 I believe). The part that I edited may be really hard to find as the landscape itself had many lines that look similar to the holes, but my holes are in the centre of the picture and really small. Again, I zoomed in to make the circles. I used seven layers to make the hole in this picture.

This is my third picture. It is of the Arc de Triumphe in Paris. I took this picture in the Summer of 2012. The hole is located on the road. I tried to make it seem like there is a hole opening up on the street. I used seven layers to make the hole in this picture.

For my fourth picture, I am using a picture of train tracks from White Rock beach. The hole is further along near the top of the picture. I used seven layers to make the hole in this picture.

This is my fifth picture. It is of the lake path in the back of the school. I took this picture with my Iphone camera so the quality isn't the best. I used seven layers to make the hole in this picture. 

This is my fifth picture. I took this in Paris during the summer of 2012. Although this isn't my favourite picture out of all of the ones I have already made, I like this one because I tried to do something different by putting two holes in the same picture. Because I made the two holes on the same layer, the shadowing is a bit off in some places, but I couldn't change it because if I changed it to suit one of the circles, the other one looked off, so I tried to keep the shadowing at a level that kind of suited both.

Scott Hazard Pictures

Picture #1

This is the first picture that I chose from Scott Hazard's gallery for one simple reason- the hole made in photoshop looks like a portal into some cool new world... Maybe Wonderland? I love how the picture has many layers; which is the point of the picture. I  also like how the layers of brick continue back until they eventually disappear from sight. The fading bricks also add another layer of mystery. An old building, a mysterious hole/portal; sounds like an adventure is brewing. 

 Picture #2

I chose this picture because it seemed almost as if the sky is opening up, waiting to suck the plant up into an alien spaceship. Or maybe the plant is actually a beanstalk and the hole is the land of the giants or something. I really love these pictures because not only are these good pictures, they are in the eye of the beholder and completely open to interpretation. Where I see the sky opening up, someone else might see a wall. That's what I like about these photos, is that they are different to everyone.

Picture #3

I really liked this picture because first of all, it is a good picture on its own. When the hole is added to the door, it creates that extra dimension. I think part of that is because of the shadowing in the hole. even though it is merely paper, again, it looks mystical. I also think tat the fact that we can't see the ending of the hole makes it better. 

Scott Hazard's Website

My Urban Camouflage

This is my first Urban Camouflage picture. This is my sister wearing my skirt and my backpack.
I got inspiration for this one day when I wore this same skirt and backpack to school. My friend, who was behind me, told me that she couldn't even distinguish my skirt from my backpack. I remembered that all of a sudden last night and decided to use this idea as one of my urban camouflage pictures. 

*The original copy in my folder looks a lot better. For some reason, when I imported the picture into my blog, the colours got all messed up so the shades of black are all different.*
This is my sister wearing my mom's black sweater, scarf and toque. She is sitting in a black chair, supposedly disappearing in the chair.

This is my final Urban Camo picture. I used face paint to paint my sister's face grey, then I used eye liner to draw the stars. I put the scarf around her. All of these pictures are my take on Urban Camouflage. Though these pictures don't necessarily have the person blend into their surroundings, they match/blend into other objects. 

Urban camouflage Examples

Urban Camouflage Examples

This is a picture by a Chinese artist by the name of Liu Bolin. I chose this picture because for one, I really had to closely to find the person. I also really liked how the artist captures every detail of the colour and the lighting. I loved how Liu Bolin even managed to get the shading and the shadows of the chair. The entire person has been painted, and I can’t even begin to imagine how long it must have taken to paint the entire scene.

This is another picture by Liu Bolin. For this picture, the first time I looked at it, I really couldn’t see the full outline of the person. The shoulders completely disappear in all of the soda cans. Not only did this picture capture all of the lighting, but it is also crazy detailed. The artist painted every single pop can, will the labels to perfectly match the real labels.

My third picture is by Yvonne Bayer and Sabina Keric. I really love how they stuffed the person inside a box, and sent them to a store to go and stand there. I’m not exactly sure what those teal-blue boxes are and what is inside of them, but I still like the picture. Really, you wouldn’t know that anything was different until you realized that some of the boxes were sticking to the side of the bigger box.

Urban Camouflage

Urban Camouflage Research

Yvonne Bayer

Yvonne Bayer was born in 1983 in Ulm, Germany. She currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany.  From 2003–2010, she was working on a Communication and Product Design degree at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. From January – July 2007, Yvonne Bayer was doing Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. In February, 2010, she earned her diploma in Communication Design (equivalent to master’s degree) also at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.

She calls herself a communication designer.

She likes working in different fields, such as graphic design, conceptual design, culture and exhibition projects. She is very interested in artwork projects as well.

Since October 2011 she has been doing freelance work for nondesign in Cologne, Germany. She has been doing freelance work for Lange+Durach in Cologne as well. Yvonne has also been doing freelance for Hauser Lacour in Frankfurt since 2008. In July 2010, Bayer did an Urban Camouflage workshop. She also helped out at the Pottfiction Summer Camp. Then, for a month during the spring of 2010, she was in charge of advertising media design for the Karlsruhe Artist’s Fair.

Yvonne did her first internship at Duodesign; an agency for applied ideas in her hometown of Uln, Germany from 2002-2003. From March to July in 2008, she did an internship at Hauser Lancour in Frankfurt. In 2009, Yvonne Bayer did a third internship at Eat Sleep Work Play in London.

Yvonne started the Urban Camouflage project in 2010 with her friend and college-mate Sabina Keric. They focused on going into stores with homemade costumes. The costumes were all made from products found at the store. Most of these products were stapled on to plain white painters suits. They would then go to the part of the store that housed the product they were wearing and strategically positioned themselves in front of it, disappearing completely from view.

I did take a bit of inspiration from Bayer and Keric’s work. I liked their use of everyday household items to create a costume. However, since I have neither the resources nor the time to create such costumes, I will have to resort to simply using paint. I like their use of boxes and the paper. It would be easy to tape paper onto someone and have them stand beside something that blends in with the paper.

This is some of Yvonne’s Urban Camouflage work in collaboration with Sabina Keric. 

Dreams of Flying

Dreams of Flying

Test Shots

Final Shots

This is a picture of a person meditating atop a pile of pillows. The background is a black blanket. I positioned the pillows to be standing up, and my sister siting cross-legged on "top" of the pillows. I took this picture from the top of my stairs at home. I did not edit this photo in any way. I did not have any specific inspiration for this picture. The idea just came to me when I was shooting my other test shots. The picture is a little bit blurry because there was a smudge on the lens. I cleaned it and attempted to re-take this photo but none of them turned out as good as this one, so I kept it. 

This is a picture of a person hanging on for dear life at the edge of a cliff/pit. The inspiration for this picture is from the book "Mark Of Athena", where the main characters are hanging on to the edge of a giant pit. The ground is a brown blanket, and the pit is a black blanket. I did not edit this picture in any way. I took this picture from the top of my stairs at home. As always, I find that my test pictures are always better than my final image. However, I had to take a final shot as the test image has the wall in it.

This is a picture of my sister balancing upside down on one finger while reading a book. The inspiration just came to me when I was taking my other test shots. Originally, this was my test shot and I had taken another image to use as my final shot, but I decided that I liked this better than the final image. The image that I had originally taken for my final shot is the image that I am using for my test shot. I did not edit this photo. I placed the chair on its back and took the photo from the top of my stairs. 

My HDR

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This is my first HDR picture taken with the Nikon camera at school. I used the program "Luminance-HDR" which I downloaded from the internet. The process is fairly simple, you upload your three photos and the program merges them together. All you have to do is choose the settings that suit you best.

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This is my second HDR image. This picture was one that I took Summer of 2012 in London England. This monument is called the Big Ben. For this image, I used Photoshop CS6. I first made three copies of this image. I then opened up two of them in Photoshop and changed the exposures- one overexposed and the other underexposed. I saved and closed these images. I then went back to photoshop and went File- Automate- Merge to HDR Pro. This merges the three photos together. For my settings, I left this one on "Custom".

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This is my third HDR image. This photo was taken Summer of 2012. This is the Notre Dame in Paris, France. For this image, I used Photoshop CS6. I first made three copies of this image. I then opened up two of them in Photoshop and changed the exposures- one overexposed and the other underexposed. I saved and closed these images. I then went back to photoshop and went File- Automate- Merge to HDR Pro. This merges the three photos together. For my settings, I left this one on "Custom".

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This is my fourth HDR image. This photo was taken at White Rock Beach a few summers ago on my dad's Nikon D7000. For this image, I used Photoshop CS6. I first made three copies of this image. I then opened up two of them in Photoshop and changed the exposures- one overexposed and the other underexposed. I saved and closed these images. I then went back to photoshop and went File- Automate- Merge to HDR Pro. This merges the three photos together. For my settings, I decided to change it around a bit. This is on "Surreal".