Photo essays are usually a series of pictures related by a theme or a place or a subject. I’ve experimented with collapsing the series into a collage.
There are many tools that you can use for this. Fuzel Pro, Frametastic and Diptic are all great for this. For my purposes, I’ve used Diptic for a while. After looking at the other options, I decided to continue.
The series I am working on is about the mixed use of land in an area where I often go running. Here’s one experiment to express that in a collage:
Diptic has a handy filter feature which allows you to make each photo in the collage have the same color cast and I used it to make sure these black and white’s all looked the same. This version doesn’t support the point because both the subject and the form are so consistent.
Here’s a different version:
A third attempt from a painterly point of view:
And lastly, a more straight forward version:
In each photo, there’s some man-made structure in the midst of the landscape. Each structure indicates a different use.
As you look at these 4 different photo essays in the form of the collage…
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4 responses to “Photo Essay with Diptic”
Nice work Jennifer. Looking at these images is like eating at a fine buffet. They all look delicious and I want to try them all.
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Thank you K C! Your analogy is wonderful!. Talk about synesthesia!
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I love the images together but am distracted by the line weight in the last one and by the shapes of the images in the second. So, I like the first and third.
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Hi Kirsten, I agree with you about the line weight in the last one. Thinner would be better. I hope you had a chance to use the poll too. Thanks for commenting.
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