Fantasy Landscape Task (Image Manipulation)

For this task we will produce an image of a 'fantasy landscape' made up of all of our own images after it's been manipulated in Photoshop. We're going to go out and take photos that will make up our final image.  We can manipulate the photo as much or as little as we like, as well as research artists/photographers that have done similar work in this style.

Research - John Goto


John Goto's an English photographer from Stockport and is best known for his photo manipulation. Goto started working with his images and computers in the 90's and has continued since. He's known for working in colour. He's now a Professor of Fine Art at Derby University.




We're able to manipulate an image as little or as much as we like. As you can see by these two of Goto's images he likes to manipulate the image a lot. In this image he incorporated aspects from different countries so you're not sure what the original image consisted of. For example in the background he included the Millennium Dome from London as well as other landmarks from the capital city. The family in the foreground create a strong contrast, in bright clothing on a gondola, something associated with other European countries, especially Italy.