tranquility
st martins, new brunswick
Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant have been teaching together for fourteen years and they have also co-authored two books: Photography for the Joy of It and Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image. It is no wonder then that their workshop is seamless in teaching style and content. While Freeman lectured on line, shape, texture, and perspective, Andre presented on expressive photography covering three techniques also in his own book titled Dreamscapes.
The first technique I’ll discuss creates what is termed a composite montage. They are quite easy to create and you’ll have fun putting them together. First in Photoshop open up two or more same-sized images you’d like to combine. Drag one image layer over the other and while you will see each image in a different layer to the right of your image, your main image will not appear as a composite until you select “Multiply“. Adjust the brightness of each of the layers to achieve the look and feel you want and then flatten your image.
Below are the two images I used to create the image above. Although you can combine any two or more unrelated images, most of those Andre showed us combined a textured background with a main image. You can create a library of textured backgrounds by shooting headstones, pebbles, reflections, frosted glass, ripples, shingles, or panned image like this one. Andre is most creative showing us one of his composite images made up of a scanned piece of wrapping paper and one main image. Give this technique a try and let me know what you think. Who knows you might just create a whole book of your own dreamscapes!
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