Digital Composite

During my first quarter of photography classes we learned how to do digital composites.  This quarter we are also doing them in our photographic design class.  I’m getting more comfortable with doing these.  While I don’t intend on doing a lot of digital composites they can be fun, and I can see how I would utilize this skill for doing the digital scrapbooking that I would like to do.

For this class we were instructed to choose one from four different artists and their movements to emulate for this project.  Our group chose Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, a film noir style painting created in 1942.  To accomplish this project we needed to photograph each person in our group of five separately, shoot a background, and other supporting objects/subjects, to composite into our final pieces.  Each person had to create their own individual composite plus we had to create one group composite. 

 After researching film noir we decided that our characters needed a story that would all tie together in the final composite.  This storyline was essentially that some characters were married and that they were all cheating on one another, and in the end one of the characters would have died, but no one would be able to tell “who done it” because every one of us could have been guilty.

In my group individual composite (below) three of our characters walked up on two of the others who were married, but the two of them had been cheating on two of the other characters that had just walked up.

 

In our final group composite, one of our characters ends up dead.  Two of the women look smug, the other woman is sad because he died, and the last man is nonchalant.  Can you depict which of the characters has killed the man?