Markus Kison

Markus Kison is a photographer and artist that works with making 3D pop-up pieces of work, that instantly look as if they were real life scenes. His work 'Untitled but dissected' is the piece that inspired me. This is because of how much something so little you can do to a photo can automatically make it better. 

For the first image of this three compilation work, is of a man walking past some buildings, with his shopping in toe. The reason why I like this image is because of the way that the man and the buildings have been cut out so precisely and neatly to get the perfect figure outline. Another reason why I find this image so unique is because of the angle that it has been placed at on the black card gives the silhouettes of the human figure and the buildings a shadow, making the picture more realistic and lifelike. 

The second imagery is a very unique piece as it is based around the two people. This still very special, in the way that it has been displayed and cut out. The figures have been very intricately cut out carefully. Also the way that the foreground is very much coming out from the background making you take notice of it a little bit more, because of how dominate the people are. The black backdrop has really helped bring the 3D image alive more, making it more appealing to look at, and sort of gives the folded three dimensional print a outline as such.

The final three dimensional picture is my least favourite but it still grabs my attention. The reason why I don't particularly like this image is because of the way that it has been cut out. The way that it has been cut out isn't really like the other two, because you can obviously see the cut out silhouette of the man on the background piece of card; it also doesn't help that the imagery is displayed on a wooden table and not on a black backdrop. 

The concept of the idea is very unique, taking a part of the photograph and cutting around it, away from the background to then fold it slightly so it is able to stand up, is really different from another photographer/artist that I have looked at in the past. From taking something so simple and making it yet so effective is just genius. Kison work has really inspired me to hopefully create a really good range of three dimensional photographs that have be displayed in a way that is very eye-catching and appealing to look at and take note on how its has been created.  

Mind Map

Here is a mind map of how to make an image more interesting and making enhancements by using different techniques. Also trying to get the best outcome as possible by doing some of the things in the mind map, that may increase your marks dramatically.

Dodging and Burning

 For some more experiments and help us gain a new skill, we   had to dodge and burn some photographs. Dodging means   lightening a small area in the picture where it once was dark.   Burning means darkening a small area in the picture where it   once was really light. 

<These are the photos I decided to dodge, making them lighter. The way I dodge these images was using a piece of black paper on a piece of wire. While the photo was being developed, I moved the black piece of paper over the particular area of interest to make it lighter.The original image is at the bottom, the reason why I chose this photograph was because I wanted to make the leaves of the bushes a little bit lighter giving them a little more definition. I made two adjustments to each photo one lighter than the other to get the gradually development through each of the three pictures. I really like the effect of lightening the image because of the detail of the photograph it can display.  


For the burning process I used this image of a road with houses on the other side. The reason why I wanted to use this photograph was because I felt that the original image was a little too light. So the way I made the image darker was to cover a part of the rest of the image that i didn't want to be darkened with a piece of card. This was the outcome, I do like this effect but you can't really see the houses in the background. So if i was able to repeat this process again i would would only burn a little part of the image instead of a huge chunk of it.>   

Colour Manipulation

Here are some of Colour Manipulation experiments that I have created using the same photograph but added a different effect to it; BLACK & WHITE, SEPIA, BLUE and RED. I really like all of these effects as you can distinctly still see the detail in the photos even with the colour manipulation added to it. In my opinion I really like all of these but I do love the sepia effect. This is because of the antique effect that it gives the image, and shows a lot more detail in this than another. However i would like to use these different effect again on different pictures and see what the outcome is. 

Darkroom Solarisation

Solarisation is basically developing a photo until you can see a part of the image then exposing the image to light for a few seconds then putting in back into the developer to see the final outcome. 
Here are two photographs that have be solarised at different timings to get a more detailed effect on the page: 

The first image that i decided to solarise was the side of a church that i took a photograph of. I though this would be a great starting point as it has a lot of detail and could really display a good oppotunity to see the solarisation come through properly. As you can see  the top photo is much more detailed then the image below. This is because of the amount of time I gave the image was a lot shorter giving the second picture a less solarised effect, but i still think the first attempt of these prints were quite good.

For the next solarised experiment I did, i choose another image of the church but from a different angle. I decided to make 4 solarised images of the original photo. I made sure for each different photo i made the timing for each one making the time increase by a second or two. I really like this experiment because of the different effect that it gives to the photo of the church. Also the amount of detail that is displayed is very powerful in the way that different pictures show different amounts of features of the church in many areas of the photo.