Image-Making
The constructed image
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Beyond capturing and drawing lies a wider craft: making images that never existed. Set design and still-life construction, 3D rendering, generative and AI-assisted imagery, photocopier experiments, projection, printmaking — image-making treats the picture as something built, not found.
Constructed images give you total control, which is both their power and their danger. Every choice is yours, so every choice must be justified by the message.
New tools keep arriving, but the question stays the same: does this image say the thing better than a simpler one would?
Methods for making images
- Planning and building constructed scenes
- Basics of 3D and rendered imagery
- Generative and AI-assisted image workflows
- Experimental analog techniques: photocopy, projection, print
- Evaluating when a constructed image beats a simple one
- Disclosing synthetic imagery honestly