Andrew Brooks- Panorama Special

We went to see a talk by Andrew Brooks at the Whitworth Art Gallery. It was a really interesting event in which he talked to us about not only his work, but how he goes about creating it. He actually opened PhotoShop on screen and showed us how his composition was made up of layers. The pieces he showed us were just incredible and unless he had told us there's no way that you would of know that they were composited together.

Here are a couple of the images that he talked to us about:

http://www.andrewbrooksphotography.com/

I found it mesmerizing that the images that he created are all composited together in PhotoShop from different shots. He talked about how he goes out and finds the perfect elements in order to create these scenes. For example in the image shown above he talked about how it took him so long to find the right boat that he wanted to use to construct this shot. Not only did he take shots in many places around the country but in other ones too, I think he said that he finally found this shot of the boat in Ireland. I think the idea of constructing your own compositions from multiple shots is exciting when you think that the possibilities are endless.

Another thing that he showed us, was the way that he constructed a mechanism that housed multiple, mounted cameras. He did this in order to create a 3D esc image. He had video on screen almost in two panels next to each other, in which you had to make yourself go cross eyed in order to see 3D like footage. It was extremely interesting.

If you haven't seen any of his work you should definitely take a look at his site. Here's a link to another talk that was filmed in June, (not the event we went to), but still covering his process. http://vimeo.com/14012293

I think that seeing this talk was helpful because as I have been researching compositing as a medium, it was interesting to see the application in in terms of simply working with composition.