What is a photomontage? A photomontage is an assemblage or collage made by joining together many photographs or parts of photographs. The technique can be used to approximate a seamless-looking, large photograph but is most often used more expressively to create works that play with shifting aspects of space, time, light & color. Assignment: Using digital cameras and Photoshop software, create one photomontage. • Montage 1 - compose a realistic, seamless image OR • Montage 2 - compose a creative, experimental image
Dimensions: One digital file (with a minimum of 16 photographs collaged together), 25 draft photos
 Limitations:- Places or objects should be the focus of your images, not people.
- Each montage will be composed of at least 4 rows and 4 columns of overlapping photographs.
- You must use your camera in manual mode.
Criteria: Communication & Expression - You chose interesting subjects or used the photomontage technique to impart interest to otherwise uninteresting subjects.
- You combined your individual photos into fun, informational, or thought-provoking images.
- Your stylistic approach is consistent within your photomontage (whether you were
trying to accurately recreate a single, seamless photograph or exploring the large range of creative possibilities of the photomontage technique or working somewhere in between).
Methods, Tools, and Techniques - You practiced “framing techniques” to insure that your photographs overlapped appropriately and often enough to create a continuous image.
- You used a digital camera in manual mode to take photographs.
- You used Adobe Photoshop to assemble individual photographs into a photomontage, creating layers to allow manipulation of individual photos.
- You printed out your final photomontages on a color printer.
Design, Layout & Composition - You thought about compositional guidelines such as simplicity, rule of thirds, balance, line, framing, mergers, etc.
- Your photomontages are composed of at least 4 rows and 4 columns of overlapping photographs.
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