In photography my group and I made several joiners. I’m going to explain the process we used.
After coming up with some ideas my group and I were given small compact cameras, I didn’t take note of the model or make, and we walked around campus looking for interesting subjects to photograph for a joiner. We all took turns taking photos for joiners in the manner explained in my post “Joiners & David Hockney”. The cameras were set on full auto and we simply used them in a “Point-and-shoot” manner. We didn’t use flash or a tripod as it was a sunny day and tripods aren’t particularly necessary for joiner photography, our lighting conditions were good enough to just shoot hand held. After we had taken several photographs, keeping in mind memory card limitations so as not to fill our card before getting all our shots, we came back to the Mac suite to assemble them on photoshop.
I decided to assemble the photo of Sinead’s shoes. I started by uploading all the images the Mac using a card reader and the memory card. I then uploaded these to photoshop and resized them to 30mm wide by 22.5 high, making sure that the DPI or resolution was kept or changed to 300. This can be done via the Image>Image size command or CMD+ALT+I
After doing that to each of the photographs I created a new canvas to assemble them in from File>New I started with an A4 piece but cropped it down to 131.4mm wides by 91.1mm high.
After dragging and dropping the images into the new canvas using the arrow tool, I assembled them in a joiner fashion by overlapping the photos and aligning the image. It helped to have the Auto-Select option ticked which ensured that the photo I clicked and dragged was the one that would move, regardless of layer. If a layer was below or above another image and needed to be moved, I selected the layer and moved it higher or lower respectively.
Final Image
This is another joiner I did with a previous group as an experiment. I wanted to try connecting different things to create a joiner, rather than just a single object. We had the idea of using each other’s body parts to create a “Frankenstein”. Ironically, it worked as a good experiment but not as a final piece.
My group also did a physical joiner of the photos of Sinead’s shoes. We printed out the individual photographs and laid them down on the floor on top of a piece of card. We assembled them into a joiner in the same way we did on Photoshop, making sure they overlapped and the content fit together. The easiest way to connect them is using straight lines in the photo, in this case the bricks and folds on the shoes, as guidelines. Once they were in an order we all liked we glued them down to the card and each other. We all named it “These boots are made for walking”, signed it and mounted it on the wall.
