Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 7

Chan Wan Qing / 0350928 / BA of Design (HONS) in Creative Media
Digital Photography and Imaging
Week 7 (Lectures, Tutorial, Practical)

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WEEK 7 (18.5.2023)

Lecture

Mr Fauzi explained to us about our Project 2, which includes double exposure exercises and also MyTIGER competition poster design. 

Double Exposure

Double exposure photography refers to merging multiple images. 

Ways to create double exposure effect:

1. Using the Tilt-Shift Effect [Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift]

Photoshop has a great tilt-shift tool that will transform your photos into soft works of art.

If you want to be extra creative, blur one of your photos instead of the entire image. Or blur everything except for one important detail.

2. Create fake reflection 

There are many ways you can create reflections. One of them is creating a double-exposure with the help of a separate window photo.

3. Experiment with simple portraits and details textured

Combining something plain with something complicated will give you a balanced result. It will also save a lot of simple photos that you might discard.

4. Convert your results to Black & White

A lack of colour will strengthen the emotions in your double-exposure images. It gives them a unique depth and allows you to experiment with something interesting just like  film photography.

5. Work with silhouette

Try silhouettes of yourself, other people, or random objects. Anything else that catches your eye can create unique composite images.

6. Pick two random photo

Try and forget about any other double-exposure ideas. Shoot interesting textures, shapes and forms instead.

7. Make simple objects look fascinating

Take photos of everyday objects you usually take for granted. Try to make them look like something else. This technique will enhance your imagination.

8. Use Shadow

Outlines of any kind are fantastic to work with for double-exposure photography. Shadows are as effective as silhouettes in this genre. They’re fascinating to work with.

Photoshop: Blend Mood

 

Quick guide:

1. Select the Layer 1 (Fire) to be on top of the Background (Musicians)
2. Go to the Blending Modes option 
3. Select “Screen”
4. As a result, all of the pixels on the fire will be selected as Screen blending mode.

Poster Design

Principles of Design: 

1. Emphasis
2. Balance and Alignment
3. Contrast - creates space and difference between elements in your design
4. Repetition - repetition unifies and strengthens a design
5. Proportion - the visual size and weight of elements in a composition and how they relate to each other
6. Movement - creates the story or the narrative of your work
7. White Space - giving a composition more room to breathe

Tutorial + Practical

Recoulouring Exercise

In tutorial and practical section, we were required to complete Recolouring Exercises. We need to recolour the black and white photo following the slides provided in tutorial. This exercise will help us to become familiar with brush tool in Adobe Photoshop. I completed this exercise in Digital Photography and Imaging - Project 1.

Recolouring Exercise (Tutorial)

Recolouring Exercise (Tutorial - Advanced ver.)

Recolouring Exercise (Practical)

Double Exposure Exercise

In double exposure exercise, we need to follow the tutorials (video and slides) posted to edit the images in Adobe Photoshop using the images provided. After completed the exercise using the provided images, we need to do one more double exposure exercise using our own images. I completed this exercise in Digital Photography and Imaging - Project 2.

Double Exposure Exercise (Tutorial)

Double Exposure Exercise (Practical)

To familiarise myself from using Adobe Photoshop to create double exposure effects, I did one more image as an extra exercise using this effect. 

Double Exposure Extra Exercise