Digital Photography & Imaging: Project 2
8/5/2023 - 4/6/2023 (Week 6 - Week 10)
Seh Zi Qi/ 0355872/ Bachelor of Design(Honours) in Creative Media
Module Name: Digital Photography & Imaging
Project 2 (A & B)
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INSTRUCTIONS
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Double Exposure Exercise
In double-exposure photography, many photos are combined by making them fantastical, moving, or amusing. Typically, they have silhouettes and may appear challenging at first, but you can use a few alternative methods to make double exposures like using Adobe Photoshop, so you don't need a double-exposure camera. You can do anything you want in the world of editing and ordinary photos can be turned into potent works of art.
Different types of double exposure:
Tilt-shift effect:
- Turn images into soft works of art.
- Blurring one of the photos instead of the entire image.
- To add this effect: Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift.
Fake Reflection:
- Use a different window photo to create a double exposure.
- Adds interesting textures to multiple exposure photography.
- Example: The main subject surface with raindrops and bokeh.
Simple Portrait with Detailed Textures:
- Combining something plain with something complicated = a balanced result.
- Saves a lot of simple photos that may get discarded.
Black & White Results:
- Strengthen the emotions in double-exposure images, a good way to express works in vulnerable ways.
- Gives unique depth and allows experimentation with something interesting like film photography.
Work with Silhouette:
- Gives a fun and doable challenge that shows the creative side of a person.
- Creates unique composite images.
Pick 2 Random Photos:
- May create a story with purpose even if it didn't initially have one.
- Great feedback creates greater creative growth.
- Shoot interesting textures, shapes and forms.
Make Simple Objects Look Fascinating:
- This technique will enhance your image.
- Example: A silhouette of a dull-looking building can become an outline of a starry sky.
Use Shadows:
- Outlines can be used to make fantastic double-exposure photography, shadows are as effective as silhouettes.
- All you have to do is go out and take photos of a few shadows, then turn them into something beautiful.
Photoshop: Blend Modes:
It is always an experimental process, and it's nearly impossible to predict the outcome. It's always recommended to experiment with different modes and Fill Opacities until your desired outcome.
Fig 1.1, Blend Mode Groups
Tutorial
Download images for Double Exposure practice and follow the video tutorial or slides to finish the exercise.
Fig 2.1, Process of practised outcome
Practised Outcome
Fig 2.2, Final of practised outcome
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Practical
- Take your own portrait photo (portrait mode).
- Collect background images online (high resolution).
- Import all images to Photoshop and convert to black & white/ monochrome (Can be a mixture of colour with B & W).
- Make your own double-exposure photo!
- Image can be landscape (1920x1080) or portrait (1080x1920)
- Submit on week 6: 23:59 pm, 8th May.
Once I was finished with the practice, I went home and found a photo of myself since I needed my own portrait photo, and I already had something in mind. I wanted it to be galaxy themed or at least have stars in it to insinuate a starry sky.
Fig 3.1, Process of the first attempt
This was my first attempt at my own double exposure, and I liked it from an aesthetic standpoint but it didn't feel like double exposure. So I went back to the drawing board and took pictures of my current self and leaned into the dark starry night theme more heavily.
Fig 3.2, Reference of the final attempt
Once I found my reference, I made a double exposure that I was proud of, though I had a bit of trouble with choosing what my final should be because I couldn't choose between the black and white or the purple tonal one.
Fig 3.3, Process of the final attempt
After changing the tonal value, I thought the background had too much noise from the stars, so I had the idea of having the stars spewing out of the hole in my head as if my ideas were the stars spilling out into the world.
Fig 3.4, Process of the final attempt 2
FINAL Double Exposure
Fig 3.5, Final double exposure
After some thought, I liked the black and white portrait better and where the stars were spilling out of my head, it felt more connected towards me as a person who wants to get their ideas out to the world, even though that dream may be far away one, it's still something I want to achieve. Basically, reaching for the stars.
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My TIGER Poster Competition
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[WEEK 5] MyTiger Values SDG (Research)
We were briefed about the Project 2B poster design that we had to create for the competition. The SDG I chose was Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.
I needed to study and gather all the related information about my topic and write a summary of said topic to get a better understanding towards what I needed to create. So I started off by finding inspiration from Pinterest and gathered 3 posters that I felt were right or connected to my topic. Once I was done with that, I went ahead with summarising what I found.
Fig 4.1, Mood board for MyTiger Values research
Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production:
This SDG aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. It acknowledges that while the earth has abundant natural resources, they have been irresponsibly exploited, leading to excessive consumption. To address this, we need to emphasise the need to adopt sustainable practices for both consumption and production. This highlights the importance of reversing the harm caused to the planet by learning how to responsibly use and produce resources in a sustainable manner.
The targets include:
Implement the 10-year sustainable consumption and production framework.
Sustainable management and use of natural resources.
Halve global per capita food waste.
Responsible management of chemicals and waste.
Substantially reduce waste generation.
Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices and sustainability reporting.
Promote sustainable public procurement practices.
Promote a universal understanding of sustainable lifestyles.
Support developing countries’ scientific and technological capacity for sustainable consumption and production.
Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable tourism.
Remove market distortion that encourages wasteful consumption.
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[WEEK 6] MyTiger Values SDG (Defining my concept)
After letting Mr Fauzi see my research and when he gave me the thumbs up to move on to the next stage of my concept, I had to visualise and sketch out the posters to what I think the "MyTiger Values" are.
Fig 4.2, MyTiger Values sketch/mock-up posters
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[WEEK 7 - 8]MyTiger Values SDG (Starting to develop poster design)
Things we had to do:
Draft the digital poster based on your sketch
Develop the composition techniques using Digital Photography/ Photo Imaging.
Apply textures & effects if necessary.
Finalize your design with colour correction (Adjustment Layer)
These things must be done throughout Weeks 7 to 8 as Week 8 was an independent learning week and we could get feedback from the google classroom private messages if we had any problems.
I started my progress around the end of Week 7 but had only finalised it around Week 8.
Fig 4.3, Progress of MyTiger Values poster
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[WEEK 9]MyTiger Values SDG (Finalisation)
I had already finished my MyTiger Values poster, though Mr Fauzi wanted us to show him our final results and what the explanation of our poster means before submission.
FINAL MyTiger Values Poster Design
Fig 4.4, Final MyTiger Values poster design
Title:
Doing What We Must
Explanation:
The SDG I chose for my poster was Responsible Consumption and Production. My narrative starts with the 3 famous words, reduce, reuse and recycle. Using these 3 words, I wanted to bring up the fact that everything can be used to create a sustainable lifestyle, even if it wasn’t meant to. I already had a photo similar to the topic and wanted to further pursue it by adding artistic elements towards it, so it looks more like a painting than a photo. This helps emphasise that such lifestyles should be seen by the world and that everyone can interrupt it however they want, meaning that any sustainable lifestyle is positive as long as it helps with the current world that we’re living in. The empty foam boxes and pots are where we can start our beginnings towards a better future with digital grass and leaves, hence why they are covered with them as it hasn’t started until we do. I want the world to understand that a sustainable lifestyle may be hard to obtain but if we were to work together towards that goal, the earth can become a better place without unnecessary consumption and production.
REFLECTION
This task was very stressful but also fun because we had limited time to finish this within 4 weeks with a similar assignment for Illustration. The double exposure was fun in the sense that I was able to experiment with the different adjustment layers and various new tools that I'd never seen before. The poster design was fairly simplistic as I already had a photo that matched what I had in mind, the only thing that I needed to do was to make it look more artistic to match the approach that I'm trying to go for. It was also very stressful because I had to juggle between 2 posters that were for the same competition, meaning they had the same deadline. Overall, it was a really fun but stressful project that I would enjoy more if I was able to have good time management.
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