Katya Ward
My Response to Victoria Siemer's work
My Response Plan
To respond to the work of Siemer's, I intend to take my own photos of various landscapes like Siemer's and edit them similarly.
My work will link to my artist because I will also try to recreate the photos by her, by using interesting landscapes and making them look unusual with photoshop.
I will need singular images of photos similar to hers.
The equipment I need will be a computer, my images and adobe photoshop
I can make them at school or home I would just need the same equipment and tools (photoshop and my landscape images)
I will include the compositional rules and formal elements of texture, colour, pattern, negative space and shape to be able to make photos like Siemer's.
This will link to my theme by trying to make it seem 'unreal' and almost as if it is like a different world which links to my theme of strange and fantastical.
My Raw photographs; Contact Sheet
My Three Photoshop Edits
To edit my first imitated response of Victoria Siemer I opened the photo in photoshop after having taken it, I drew a rectangle using the rectangular marquee tool, after having drawn one the right size I then selected it and copied and pasted it. After pasting it I selected it and then rotated it 180 degrees which gave it the appearance of it having been flipped. Then to blend the edges and make it have a faded look I used the brush tool to get rid of some of the pasted sides. Overall making the image look like Siemer's.
To edit the second photo I did the same thing as the first. Opening it in photoshop then cropping it appropriately to fit the frame. But instead of using a rectangular marquee I used a circular one to imitate different photos Siemer made. Then after drawing the circle I copied and pasted it. Selected the pasted circle and rotated it 180 degrees. Next I used the same brush tool to smooth the edges off and make it fade just like the first image.
For the third photo I did the exact same as the first one but I , opening it in photoshop drawing the rectangle the right size. Copying and pasting it then rotating it and using the brush tool to blend the bottom half of the pasted section into the background.
I think the third edit has been more successful, it seems the most similar to Siemer's, and it looks better than the rest. It also has is similar to Siemer's because it has the same kind of surreal different world feeling, it also transitions nicely which supports a lot to the idea of Siemer's. This links to my theme of Strange and Fantastical because it is almost creating a 'fragmentation of the self' that can interest the viewer and open different possibilities.