Photomontage
Photomontage is the process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image-editing software. This latter technique is referred to by professionals as "compositing", and in casual usage is often called "photoshopping". The background photograph is equivalent to building a movie set or using a photo backdrop to simulate the foreground object was filmed / photographed at a different location.
Photomontages are also sometimes called photo composites. Photomontage differs from retouching in that at least two images are combined. There is a great art to creating a good-looking (which usually means realistic-looking) photomontage.
Photomontage is the physical / mechanical equivalent of chroma key photography.
Ethical and legal issues with photomontage
A photomontage may contain elements at once real and imaginary. Two-dimensional representation of physical space in a picture is, by definition, an illusion. Such combined photos and digital manipulation can set up a collision between aesthetics and ethics - for instance, in faked news photographs that are presented to the world as real. In the United States, for example, the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) have set out a Code of Ethics promoting the accuracy of published images, advising that photographers "do not manipulate images [...] that can mislead viewers or misrepresent subjects.
Photomontages can violate a person's personality rights and can also lead to images that may classify as child pornography or indecent pseudo-photograph of a child.
Photomontage in spanking art
Some spanking artists create photographic spanking art by making composite pictures from two or more source photos. Sometimes the source images are not photos but works of fine art.
Such photomontages can:
- turn a non-spanking image into a spanking image
- change details of existing spanking images (e.g. the implement, the setting or the state of dress/undress)
- exchange the face or body of the spanker or spankee
- change the apparent age or gender of the spanker or spankee
Such images are also known as spanking fakes.
Examples of spanking artists working with photomontage techniques are Danilo, Paolo, Bebbon and Lee Warner.
See also
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Photomontage ]
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