Assignment 10:

Watermark:

Reading Quiz

1. What is a watermark and why would you use one?

2. Why would you use the Publish Services panel in LR?

3. How are Loretta Lux and Beate Gutschow using digital techniques to construct reality in their work? Answer for each artist.

Answers:

1. Watermarks are typically the persons name embelished on a photograph. A watermark can act in multiple ways; it can be a way to brand and market your photos or it can protect your photos from individuals who steal them and try to make them their own.

2.If you upload your images to different websites, or want to keep track of the ones that are published the Publish Services panel in LR is good to use.

3.Beate Gutschow creates reality in her photographs. She uses about 30 different photographs for each picture, puts elements from each into one, and creates landscapes. Her work is a combination of photographic imagery with a hint of the idea of painting. Loretta Lux, on the other hand, is delicate with her alterations to her  images. However, she creates reality through the backgrounds of her photographs in an almost dreamy way. She uses paintings as inspiration and sources to help further the reality she is trying to create in her children's portraits.