Digital Photography and Imaging (EXERCISES)

16/09/2022 -  28/19/2022 / Week 3 - Week 9

Glen Owen / 0354952

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

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LECTURES 

Week 9 (28/19/2022)

We got an introduction on Adobe After Effect and try to animate objects with it. Mr. Martin also gave some feedbacks about our photo manipulation task. Mr. Martin introduced our final project in the end of the class.

Week 8 (21/10/2022)

Independent Learning Week

Week 7 (14/10/2022)

Mr. Martin gave exercise on how to make like a cyborg thing and teach us the tool "Spot Healing Tool". We also started making our photo manipulation project.

Week 6 (07/10/2022)

Mr. Martin gave feedbacks about our double exposure. We also got some briefing about camera parts and given tasks for next week. We need to prepare a sketch idea for the next project too.

Week 5 (30/09/2022)

Mr. Martin give some explanation on double exposure, asked us to find 3 ideas on making our own double exposure. We first do our first exercise in making double exercise before making our self double exposure. 

Week 4 (23/09/2022)

In this week  we studied about how to recolor a black and white picture using the blend tool and pen tool. Mr. Martin also gives feedback regarding the collage task.

Week 3 (16/09/2022)

There's no lecture in this week, but Mr. Martin gave some materials in Teams for us to try something in Photoshop. It's about blending tool and Mr. Martin also gave us an assignment for the blending tool.

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EXERCISES

Exercise 1: Blending Mode (16/09/2022)

Part 1: Photo Manipulating SHAZAM!

    In this week (week 3), there is no class, but Mr. Martin gave us a video about how to manipulate photo with Photoshop by masking and add blending mode. We were given 2 images by Mr. Martin, it's an image of Shazam and a heart mansion.

Fig 1.1 Heart Mansion

Fig 1.2 SHAZAM! poster

Fig 1.3 Edited photo of Shazam in the heart mansion

Part 2: "My Reflection"

Fig 1.4 Me at my hometown back in months ago (around June)

    In this task, we have to do the same thing with the Shazam one. Instead of Shazam, we have to use our own picture and edit it to the heart mansion. We may use the blending tool for this task.

Fig 1.5 Me in the heart mansion contemplating about life

Exercise 2: Recolouring black and white picture (23/09/2022)

Part 1: Portrait of an old man

Fig 2.1 Portrait of an old man

    We were asked to recolor this black and white portrait to a colorful portrait. Mr. Martin said that we can do whatever we want to the old man so this is my attempt to use Photoshop as a boy. It was really fun to be honest and to think I really enjoy this makes me laugh.

Fig 2.2 My attempt to 'recolor' the old man

Part 2: Recolouring a woman

    

Fig 2.3 Woman #1

Fig 2.4 Woman #2

Fig 2.5 Woman #3

    In this exercise, we were tasked to recolor Woman #3 with the color hair matching with Woman #2 and skin color matching with Woman #1. I used some blending mode and add something like filter to the portrait that makes it look colorful (the pink color vibe).

Fig 2.6 Process of recoloring

Fig 2.7 Colored portrait of Woman #3

Part 3: Recoloring Images

    Mr. Martin gave us 16 black and white portraits that we may choose. I chose this portrait because personally she looks beautiful and menacing as well. 

Fig 2.8 Black and white portrait of a woman

    The same process like Part 2, I first mask some parts of the person and recolor to any color I want. In this case, I feel like purple is good for the hair and red for the eyes. I also add some filter-like layer like Part 2 so it matches the vibe.

Fig 2.9 Process of recoloring

Fig 2.10 Final colored portrait

Exercise 3: Double Exposure

Part 1: Lady portrait

    This exercise teach us on how to make double exposure images with Photoshop. Firstly we need to download the images that Mr. Martin gave to us.

Fig 3.1 - 3.5 Images that needed to be use

Fig 3.6 Process of editing the portrait

Fig 3.7 Final result

Part 2: Self Double Exposure

• Visual Research

    Mr. Martin told us to find 3 double exposure work from Pinterest. We can choose any work that we like as long as it's a double exposure. To be honest, there's a lot of work that I like when I explore deep in Pinterest. In the end, I choose this 3 work that I like. 

Fig 3.8 https://pin.it/3XFLtJW

Fig 3.9 https://pin.it/lMHNt2D

    Fig 3.10 https://pin.it/4RzGAY1

• Progress

    I begin to start making my double exposure by using images from Google. To be honest I used many images but I do it because I wanted to. I upload some of the pic here because some of them can't be uploaded

 

Fig 3.11 Picture I used mainly

Fig 3.12 Progress

Fig 3.13 Result

    After receiving feedbacks, Mr. Martin said that what I made here is not a double exposure. Instead it's the final project for this semester, talk about lucky. Well in the end I did made a new double exposure and I guess this works. I did keep this as a sketch idea for my next project 

Fig 3.14 Process of remake double exposure

Fig 3.15 Final result

 

Exercise 4: Displacement Map

    In this exercise we were asked to displace one image to another image. We were given this picture by Mr. Martin.

Fig 4.1 Pictures given by Mr. Martin

Fig 4.2 Edited sphynx

Fig 4.3 Edited woman

Fig 4.4 Edited flag

Exercise 5: Spot Healing Tool

    In this exercise Mr. Martin gave us pictures to fix. We also tried to make some cybernetic effect with our portrait.

Fig 5.1 Images that need to be fixed

Fig 5.2 Fixed Image

Fig 5.3 My attempt on cyberneting myself

• Low and High Shutter Speed testing

Fig 6.1 Low Shutter Speed taken by Edwin Choo Quan Rong (the person in this pic is me)

Fig 6.2 High Shutter Speed taken by me

Fig 6.3 Focal length testing

Exercise 6 - Animating in After effect 

    In this exercise, Mr. Martin gave us some photoshop file to be animated in After effect. I can only show the progress here because at that time the classes wifi is not coopeerating with me so I didn't catch any tips and tricks that Mr. Martin gave.

Fig 6.4 yowa03 picture

Fig 6.5 Attempts on animating

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FEEDBACKS

Week 9

Mr. Martin said that the photo manipulation that I created is works well. He just said that I need to add some shadow in it.

Week 6

Mr. Martin said that Fig 4.3 is not a double exposure but the final project. He also said that I can keep this for the blog.