Adapting a photographer's style - Jeremy Wolff

[MatthewWhittle]

I am doing photography AS level and we have just been given our exam themes. With the A level you have to study a photographer and work in their style. Basically the photographer I have chosen is Jeremy Wolff, he produces mosaic like images I assume using photoshop or other software.
Here are some of HIS images (not mine).

http://jeremywolff.com/collages/bryant.jpg

http://jeremywolff.com/collages/funkflex.jpg

http://jeremywolff.com/collages/mcmansion.jpg

So my question is do any of you photoshop geniuses know of any methods, tutorials or even the name of this type of work so that I can have a go at it myself?
I know how to paste images into layers and transform them to fit but any tips on how he may get his images to look so good would be apprieciated.

Matt

 

[swanseamale47]

They look a bit like david hockneys "joiners" I'm guessing he shoots lots of overlapping images and make the whole up in photoshop, with a bit of warping thrown in for good measure. He's also upping the saturation by the look of it.

 

[Crofts]

Assuming that you don't have a license from him to reproduce his images here, there's a risk that you're breaching copyright by posting them here. It would be safer to post a link to them.

There is a 'fair dealing for the purposes of cricitism or review' exception to copyright that might save you, but I wuldn't guarantee that 'fair dealing' extends to getting advice on how to copy the photographer's ideas/style, even if it's for an exam. I'd suggest linking to them rather than posting them.

 

[JasonRS]

They look a bit like david hockneys "joiners" I'm guessing he shoots lots of overlapping images and make the whole up in photoshop, with a bit of warping thrown in for good measure. He's also upping the saturation by the look of it.

I thought of Hockney too when I saw these.

They occasionally run Hockney on Photography on Sky Arts where he discusses how he creates them.

 

[specialman]

I'd just shoot, shoot, shoot and then just basically lay everything out in PS - it's not a hard process if you resize everything first (use a action or droplet to that) so the file sizes aren't massive*–*for an A1 print then each image should be around 30cm @ 300ppi longest edge.

There looks to be a variety of shooting angles in there to create that mad perspective. It's especially apparent on the second example - the way the background building all skew at different angles hints at that.

You've gone for a hard style to emulate - I'd try different processing styles, mono Vs colour and even try shooting print and seeing what you get back from a regular printers. Polaroid would be interesting too.