Photo Collages in David Hockney's style

Last fall, I talked with my brother about David Hockney's photo collages and how (a long, long time ago) we had experimented with this technique using prints shot on 35mm film. And we decided to try this again with our digital setups. For a collage of 15-25 photos, you need a limited angular for the individual images. So, I used my beautiful 100mm f/2.8 Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestor lens, and went out on a cloudy fall day through Downtown Ruston, LA, a few hours after it had stopped raining. For these, I turned off raw capture, and decided only to use the out-of-camera jpgs (although with minimal post-processing of the assembled collages). At least some of these were shot with the Orestor lens at open aperture, to use its vignetting as a creative element.

Initially, I was not that happy with the results - but half a year later, with a fresh view, I consider them worth posting. It's probably not a method/topic that I plan to pursue in the future. But maybe, occasionally, it could be something to try out.

More of my photography is posted here.

Impressions of Ruston, LA (1)

When I re-started my photography in 2022, my main focus was on black and white. But over the months, I also collected some great color images of my town, Ruston, LA, of which I'm sharing here a first set.