Sequential Images Class Practice

 We completed a class practice on creating sequential images this week. This was in the manner of Eadweard Muybridge, who we looked at class.  Here is an example of his work, I chose the male, jumping as I quite enjoyed these images of the human form. 

Plate 163, with key words “Male, Jumping; standing broad jump (shoes),” model is Percy C. Madeira (1862-1942). The black and white grids used to track movement are visible on the top two panels. (Image: University of Pennsylvania Archives)

I decided wanted to take sequential images of my bag as my title will be 'What's in my Bag'  Therefore I used a large A2 piece of paper which was pastel-coloured and I placed on my office floor.  I then started to take out the items in my bag and place them on the paper and I photographed these in sequence.  I used a 

Canon 700D camera, I changed my camera settings to Aperture priority. ISO 400 as these were indoor shots and a wide aperture F5.6, shutter speed was aroun1/30 which was quite slow however for a quick task these images were fairly straightforward top down shot. These are the settings below. 

Next Week I will add the final images completed on Pixlr

The next step is that I am going to put my images together for presentation in a sequence on Pixlr

I opened Pixlr E, I then clicked on 'Create New' and then in the dialog box I clicked on Print in the top menu and then I clicked on A4 size canvas.  I then added my title in the left hand box.  I then clicked on back ground and then chose white background and then clicked on 'create'. 

I then opened my chosen images from the set of images I took for the practice.  I did this by clicked on File in the top menu and then clicked on on open.  I then browsed by desktop and found my images and then added to Pixlr. 

I then cropped all my images just to get rid of rough edges.  I went to the crop tool on the left hand menu and adjusted accordingly for each shot.  I then went to top menu to 'adjustments' and in the drop down menu clicked on 'brightness and contrast' I adjusted the brightness of each shot by around 16 points each for consistency

I then wanted to add all my images to my canvas so I went to my first image clicked on 'select' in the top menu and then clicked on 'copy'  I then went back to my canvas and clicked on 'paste.  I then adjusted the image using the move tool for positioning and transform controls to change the size.  I then repeated this process for each image to create the sequence above. 

I then added text by clicking on the 'T' text tool on the left hand menu.  I then added my text layer and in the text menu.  I changed the colour to black, I changed the font to courier new, and the size of the font 72pts.  I then just aligned the text to the right and made the text bold.  

I then went to file and export as png in the drop down menu and saved to my computer as a final image.  Please see final work below.