Photo Illustration

For this week's project we were directed to either capture a stand alone photo or create a photo illustration. I chose to pursue the photo illustration to be able to demonstrate multiple skills in photography and graphic design.

It's a love - hate relationship.

Photo manipulation has been around almost since the beginning of photography, said an article from graphicssoft.about.com.   With continuous advances in photo technology it is almost effortless to create an image demonstrating an event that hasn’t actually happened.

Stacie Rennert, 22, helped to demonstrate the ease that programs such as Photoshop bring to photographers, graphic designers, advertising agency and so forth with this image displaying her multiple personalities by acting out her “dark” and her “peaceful” personalities.

“Photoshop is a wonderful tool for creative modeling shots,” Rennert said. “It is me acting out my own characters without being the actual me, its fun.”

These tools are helpful for art and modeling based photos but these same tools have been used to manipulate photos used by very reputable organizations including National Geographic and multiple news organizations. One very famous instance is the cover of National Geographic displaying the pyramids on the cover of the magazine in a way that is impossible to actually photograph.

What one sees may not be the truth, but rather an inaccurate representation or a completely false occurrence.  One must be wary of what they are looking at to be sure they are not being misled by a journalist or editor trying to sway a person to believe one thing over another.

proof sheet.