Stephanie de Rouge

Layers with Film

Stéphanie de Rougé is a New York-based French photographer who works freelance on portrait and illustration projects for major magazines and corporate customers in Europe and the United States. Her work frequently revolves around intimacy in vast cities, and it has been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), Le Bon Marché (Paris), Galerie Duboys (Paris), Galerie Photo (Paris), and Soho Photo Gallery (New York). De Rougé has received honours from Flash Forward 2009 (Canada) and La Bourse du Talent 2009 (France).

Her clients include The New York Times, Nestlé France, Libération, Havas, Sephora, Le Point, Edible Manhattan, The Good Life, Storey Publishing, Popular Mechanics, Avram Rusu Interiors, James Koster Architect, and Thomas Burak Interiors.

One of the most important aspects of De Rouge's photography is her use of double exposure, a method in which two or more photos are placed on each other to create a seamless blend of imagery. This approach enables her to create unexpected juxtapositions and contrasts inside a single frame, adding depth and complexity to her photographs.

Image Analysis

This image has a variety of elements which make it stand out the intention of the multiple double exposures creates this layered effect where you can't fully decipher what's going on in the image but what stands clear is how it's an image taken in two different locations it makes you think of cities overlapping with the streets crossing over one another creating intricate Layers which makes it seem like an image of society.

One of the most important aspects of De Rouges' photography is her use of double exposure, a method in which two or more photos are placed on each other to create a seamless blend of imagery. This helps to make the image seem so seamless and works effortlessly.

De Rouge uses double exposure to portray rich tales and emotions, allowing viewers to interpret each image in its unique way. By combining disparate components, she creates ambiguity and intrigue, encouraging viewers to explore the link between the layers and what they might symbolise. Her use of shadows and specific lighting helps to create a new realm for each of her photographs it works so well as you can see what is taken in each part of the image using a film camera to create the overall outcome.

Furthermore, De Rouge's use of layers in this image gives depth and texture, generating visual intrigue and bringing viewers into the scene. Whether she's layering photos of nature, architecture, or people, each layer contributes to the overall composition, increasing the richness and complexity of the final image.

Responses

Digital - Nik Filter

Digital

Film

Development

Here i choose an image and fixed the brightness and contrast and other elements and placed it in photoshop

Then once that was done, I had both my images already in layers and dragged them across the page to the other half of the image so it looked like the screenshot above

Then using the crop tool i expanded the image after i zoomed out to make another equal half to add another two or three images to begin my multiple exposure editing process

Here when i first began i had two layers which would then turn to around 12 layers so i colour coded the orginal two in red so it could easily distinguished them from the layers i would add on top, then using the eye tool i turned of the visibility of one of the layers so i could work on layer at a time

Here i started by using the rectangular marquee tool to choose a particular part of the image i wanted to duplicate

From using the rectangular marquee tool i repeated the same process till i had multiple strips from the one image like above so i could move this around and make the final product, so here there are four parts of the image i picked

From the time slices I had made with the first image, it should end up looking something like this so from that I will need to turn off the visibility of one of the images work on the second one and repeat the same steps till it looks something like the image on the right.

Here there are multiple layers of which i had created from the two images to combine together to create one multiple exposure image

Then from rearranging all the images it should look something like the image on the right and just like Stephanie de Rouge images she makes them in black and white so i proceeded to do the same i used the layer mask on the 1st Layer to turn the whole image black and white

After that using the black-a tool I adjusted the harshness of some parts of the images to make it look more film-like and deepen the tones in certain parts of the image then i further enhanced it by going layer by layer to adjust their tones and curves, to create the outcome of the image above

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