Sketch booking: for crafting and progressing ideas

In digital imaging we were shown the usefulness of using Photoshop as a way of sketch booking below is a rough example we were shown. Digital sketch booking generally utilises cutting, copying and repeating.


The concept is to get your ideas down in a rough way so that you can make quick and informed decisions about what will work and what won't. The final image can be refined at a later date. The image above although done very quickly has similarities to the work of Du Zhen-Jun (see image below).


Below is a quick example of how I had already been utilising this method for my current project. By photographing urban street scenes and compositing them with astrophotography shots (both taken by myself) I am hoping to highlight the beauty that we are losing due to humanities need to encroach on the natural environment.
To create this type of image I can quickly sketch together a rough idea to see whether the idea is worth pursuing.



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