Uschi Gerschner is a freelance Photojournalist and lives on City Island in New York. She booked the day to share her photography with us all and to support myself through this project and obtain a custom piece of art. I sent her an email to get a feel for what style of photography she would want. I suggested for her to look at a blank spot on her wall and imagine what type of photo would look good there or send me some other artists she was a fan of as I thought it would be fun to try to imitate their style.

Uschi mentioned that her favorite artist was David Hockney (see his work here). Regarding his photographic work, he is famous for creating whole images from a collage of smaller individual frames from a scene. Uschi also mentioned that she loves travel and wanted a photo representative of my area; the Rocky Mountains in all their bright, winter, snowy glory.

Uschi also has a “one photo a day” blog and the results have been so interesting. Check it out and also give her a Follow on Twitter @uschi13.

See a Large Version of the Photo Here

[About this Shoot: I experimented with this collage style of photography many years ago with film. I wanted to try to replicate this with digital. I went high up Lookout Mountain (near Golden, CO) and found a perfect spot to capture as the sun was setting. I took 185 frames, some vertical, some horizontal, and some tilted.

I created a large canvas in Photoshop and began piecing the photos in to create the completed image. I ended up using 26 different exposures and it took much longer than anticipated. I think using film is much easier as you can spread the prints on the floor and begin taping together puzzle style. Nevertheless, it was fun doing this and a style I'll definitely be experimenting with much more in the near future.]