Photographic joining.

I took a series of photographs in two different locations, one inside a studio using professional lighting and equipment (flat lighting) the other outside in a natural location. Each photograph was of a different body part, head, torso, legs and feet. After I had taken my photographs I then used photoshop to put these photographs together collectively. Each photograph was joined in Photoshop and lined up with the previous body part creating a whole body. I also used curves and levels to make the photographs blend together well.

I created 4 joined photographs using all of the photographs I had taken. One using the studio photographs, one using the locational photographs, one I edited black and white and the final was a mixed piece using different photographs taken by myself and other people to create a new 'corpse'.

The above piece is a joined photograph using locational photographs, these were taken one at a time and merged together, I aligned each part of the subjects body to produce a new 'corpse'.

My second photographic joining outcome was a piece taken in a studio using professional lighting set ups (seen above). I used flat lighting to produce this piece. I used the same technique but edited the photos slightly to ensure the skin colours matched.

I decided to edit my previous piece to make it black and white (above) I changed the saturation of the image till it became black and white and then used curves to darken the background and lighten the skin to blend the images in together, this gave them a ghostly look.

Finally using the photographs we had taken as a group I merged them all together to create a new corpse, these were both studio and locational. (Above) This allowed me to create a more 'exquisite corpse' inspired piece.

These photographs were inspired by Kevin Meredith. Kevin Meredith is a British artist who is known for him lomographic photography. Most known for his street style series mosly taken in Brighton, Meredith joins his photographs to re-create the subjects body.