Digital Photography & Imaging / Week 5

21/10/2024 - 27/10/2024 (Week 5)
Daphne Lai Yu Cheng / 0366380
Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelors of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Project 1 / Physical Collage Design & Digital Imaging

Group 1

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Week 5 (21/10/2024)

Lectures: 

Double Exposure

• Double exposure photography: merging multiple images. Goal is to make them surreal, emotional, or humorous and usually features silhouette.

Figure 1.1 Double Exposure Photography

How to create double exposure photography?

1. Tilt-Shift Effect

• Transforms your photos into soft works of art.

• Blur one of the photos instead of the entire image OR blur everything except for 1 important detail.

Figure 1.2 Tilt-Shift Effect

2. Fake Reflection

• Creating a double exposure with the help of a separate window photo.

• A main subject surface with raindrops and bokeh helps to add interesting textures to a multiple exposure photography.

Figure 1.3 Fake Reflection

3. Experiment with Simple Portraits and Texture Details

• Combining something plain with something complicated will produce a balanced result.

Figure 1.4 Simple Portrait and Texture Details

4. Convert Results to Black and White

• Lack of colours strengthen the emotions in double exposure images if you want to express your work in a vulnerable way.

• Produces a unique depth and allows to experiment with something interesting like film photography.

Figure 1.5 Results in Black and White

5. Working with Silhouette

• Experiment on silhouettes of yourself, other people, random objects, or anything else that catches your eye could create unique composite images.

Figure 1.6 Silhouette

6. Pick 2 Random Photos

• To create a story of their own, one that others find encouraging. Greater creative growth.

• Shooting interesting textures, shapes and forms.

Figure 1.7 Random Photos

7. Turn Simple Objects into Something Fascinating

• Make photos of everyday objects look like something else.

• This technique enhances your imagination.

Figure 1.8 Simple Objects into Something Fascinating

8. Use Shadows

• Shadows are as effective as silhouettes.

• Take a photo of someone's shadow and transforming it into a story.

Figure 1.9 Shadows

Blend Modes

• An experimental process because it's impossible to predict the results. Experiment with different modes and Fill Opacities to get the results you are looking for.

Figure 1.10 Blend Mode Groups & Commonly Used Blend Modes

• Particular blending mode works well on difficult subjects like glass, smoke, fire and lightning.

Figure 1.11 Blending Mode on Fire

Figure 1.12 Edited using Blending Mode

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Tutorial:

For this week's practical, Mr Fauzi provided us with a Hearst Mansion and Shazam image. We were to edit Shazam using quick selection tool into the Hearst Mansion and do some editing to balance the colour of Shazam with Hearst Mansion.

After that, we also took a picture of ourselves and edited ourselves into Hearst Mansion then repeated the same editing process as above.

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Practical:

Process:

 Figure 2.1 Process (Shazam) (21/10/2024)

Figure 2.2 Process (Me) (21/10/2024)

Final

Figure 2.3 Shazam in Hearst Mansion (21/10/2024)

Figure 2.4 Me in Hearst Mansion (21/10/2024)

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Reflection:

This week's lecture was about double exposure photography. As someone who enjoys photography, I found it an interesting topic because it’s fascinating how each layered double exposure photograph conveys a different story. It also taught us how to create a double exposure and I think it’s a helpful guide for our upcoming practical activity.

This week's activities focused on photoshopping. I learned about photoshopping skills by using different tools to make the subject look realistic when transferred to another image. Moreover, I learned about new tools in Adobe Photoshop.