photographer john goto- fantasy landscapes

John Goto .born 1949 in Stockport, England. A British artist best known for his photo-digital artworks, notably coming to wider attention with the "High Summer" section of his Ukadia series of pictures .He studied Fine Art at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, where an interest in the narrative forms of European cinema and literature led him to the medium of photography.

John Goto began using computers in his work in the early '90s with a series made in Russia entitled "The Commissar of Space" which dealt with the final years of the artist Kasimir Malevich’s life during the early Stalinist era.

His account of the contemporary world continued with "John Goto’s New World Circus", a thinly veiled allegory of the occupation of Iraq set within a travelling circus. His attention turned to the issue of climate change with "Floodscapes" and cultural history in "Dance to the Muzik of Time". Prompted by the invasion of the Gaza Strip by the IDF (27 December 2008 - 21 January 2009), Goto has made "Mosaic", a series of apparently abstract images, which belie their traumatic source.

The development of Augmented Reality technology allowed Goto to extend his practice of photomontage into the actual world. In collaboration with Dr. Matthew Leach, he has produced augmented reality installations of West End Blues, The Invisible Artist and AR Gilt City, using the Layer app.

Goto has had solo London shows at Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery, and The Photographers' Gallery. He has exhibited his photo digital art widely in Europe. He currently works as Professor of Fine Art at the University of Derby, England. Goto is represented by f5.6 Galerie Munich; Gallery On, Seoul and Dominique Fiat Galerie, Paris.

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You don't see this immediately. Before that, there's the bucolic beauty of the rural backdrops: peaks of hills, dramatic skies bringing heavy weather, and shimmering expanses of water. Goto - whose works are on show at Edinburgh's Portfolio Gallery - borrows compositional principles from 17th-century French landscape painters Poussin and Lorrain, making these images oddly familiar and readable. His second main source is features lifted from the 18th-century English gardens at Stowe, Rousham and Stourhead, with their fake classical flourishes, their ha-has and their follies. At Stowe, for example, the gardens contain a River Styx and their very own Elysian Fields.
It's the combination of these two influences that gives Goto's photo-tableaux their authority as well as their sumptuous, seductive elegance. But this blending of different versions of the landscape emphasises the fact that our perception of the countryside has always been as much a social and cultural construct as our view of urban life...."

 comparison of my final image against john goto's work

photographer Eadweard Muybridge- sequential images

Muybridge was born in Britain at Kingston upon Thames in 1830, and died there in 1904. He was actually christened Edward James Muggeridge, but assumed his new identity after emigrating to New York in the early 1850s. It was not until 1867, following the American Civil War, that he emerged as a photographer. Over the following years, he quickly established himself with images that documented his adopted home of San Francisco and charted the progressive dynamism of the new nation.
Where Muybridge learned his skill as a photographer remains unknown. After an accident in 1860 affected his vision, he returned to Britain, where he remained until 1866, his absence coinciding with the American Civil War. after returning to San Francisco, Muybridge's first documented photographs date from 1867, when he worked for five months in the Yosemite Valley. Ever alert to commercial opportunities, he published the majority of his early views as stereographs. These were small cards with two photographs of the same subject, though each offered a slightly different perspective. Looked at through a handheld viewer, the image is transformed into a composite three-dimensional scene. Millions of these cards were sold throughout the 1860s to a public with an unceasing appetite for unfamiliar and extraordinary images. In identifying himself as a 'view artist'.
Muybridge, whose large photographs of Yosemite Valley were world famous, was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, in 1830. He had taken the strange name Eadweard Muybridge in the belief that it was the Anglo-Saxon original of his real name, Edward James Muggeridge. In California he photographed the Pacific Coast for the government, accompanied the official expedition to Alaska when that territory was acquired from Russia in 1867, and became a specialist in industrial photography. In 1869 he invented one of the first shutters for a camera. His experience was to serve him in good stead.
Muybridge was the man who famously proved a horse can fly. Adapting the very latest technology to his ends, he proved his theory by getting a galloping horse to trigger the shutters of a bank of cameras. This experiment proved indisputably for the first time what no eye had previously seen – that a horse lifts all four hooves off the ground at one point in the action of running. Seeking a means of sharing his ground-breaking work, he invented the zoopraxiscope, a method of projecting animated versions of his photographs as short moving sequences, which anticipated subsequent developments in the history of cinema.
The results of Muybridge's labors were published in 1887 in the form of 781 collotype plates; they were sold separately, or bound in eleven volumes with the title Animal Locomotion. In addition to horses, animals of all kinds were borrowed from the Philadelphia zoo for photographing. But the most significant work was the human figure. Male and female models, nude and clothed, were photographed in all manner of activity - walking, running, laying bricks, climbing stairs, fencing, jumping. Muybridge even photographed one girl throwing a bucket of water over another girl's shoulders, and a mother spanking a child. His specific intention was to create an atlas for the use of artists, a visual dictionary of human and animal forms in action.

comparison of my final image of sequential images to muybridge's work.

photoshop workshop- edit,copy,paste. move and resize.

After selecting an image or a section of an image you wish to copy. go edit, copy. then paste it across to another picture or to another part of the picture you are currently working with using edit, paste.

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You can then move the image that you have pasted to a different part of the picture by using the move tool.aswell you can resize the image to the size you wish. use the arrow tool to move the image. and use the transform controls to resize it.

photoshop workshop- clone stamp

 select clone tool from the menu of tools on the left-hand side of the screen,then held down the 'Alt' key to select the area you wish to copy form.
you can pick the brush, the size, and the opacity of the brush to edit with.
 once selected you can let go of alt and click then draw where you want the cloned area to appear.
if you do this in a new layer, you can erase parts that you didn't want to clone.
keep doing this until your happy with your image. Note you can repeat this multiple times.

photoshop workshop- quick mask mode

In quick mask mode you can edit the area that you have selected. you can do this in two ways. firstly you can lasso the area, then neaten the edges of the area in quick mask mode, or you can press quick mask mode when nothing is selected and earse the red of the area you wish to select.

quick mask mode tool is the box with a circle inside, on the bottom of the left tool bar. anything you have not selected before pressing quick mask mode will turn red. now press the erase tool, change the brush size and maybe zoom into the areas edge. now press and drag on areas you wish to deselect (this will turn them red). to select or reselect an area do the same, but swap the colour using the arrows. to change from select to deselect just click the arrow next to the colour box on the left hand side. when happy with the selected area reclick the quick mask mode tool. now you can move, copy and paste this selects selection.

photoshop workshop- lassoing

To lasso a part an image,select the lasso tool
you can use either free form lasso, lassoing with straight lines, or magnetic lasso.

free form lasso tool allows you to freely make any shape you want to cut out. just click and drag the tool around the area you wish to select,making sure you end at exactly where you started.it is good to have a steady hand if selecting a specific details using the free form lasso tool.

polygonal lasso,to select hold and drag across on the lasso tool to bring it up
this allows you to lasso useing straight lines

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 Magnetic lasso tool, select like how you did for the polygonal lasso tool.
more accurate selection by sticking like a magnet to edges of the area you wish to select.



You can then copy and paste this area onto another selection of the image or another image. A great way to make sure you have eveything that you want selected. use quick mass mode. there you can erase parts this you don't want in the selected area, or unerase parts that you didn't select when using the lasso tool.

photoshop workshop-fantasy landscape final image

here are the two original images that i used to create my final fantasy landscape image :) .

photoshop workshop- black and white with colour

to create a black and white image. with aspects of colour. first copy the background layer.
then with the copied background. turn it black and white . (using image, adjustments and black and white)

next select the erase tool, and change the size. now erase parts of the picture that you wish to be in colour. this will allow the bottom layer to be seem so it seems that the image has colour.

photoshop workshop- transforming

to transform a image. go to edit, transform. and warp. from here you can select different settings i.e. twist.

photoshop workshop - adding text

to add text to the image. text the text tool. next change the colour size and fount of the text. you can also change the shape of the text by using warp. 

 

photoshop workshop-adding colour

 to add colour to an image. select the "brush" tool and then select the size of the brush. now pick the colour/colours. add a new layer. and paint in what you want coloured.

after filling in all you wanted to colour in, change "normal" in the layer box to your chosen program. i.e. overlay