Digital Photography and Imaging-WEEK 5

21.10.2024 （Week 5)

SUN YUTONG (0377440)

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

Project 5 / Exercises

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LECTURE

This lecture introduces us to double exposure and image blending modes. Double-exposure photography involves merging multiple images. The aim is to make them surreal, emotional, or humorous. They usually feature silhouettes. In using PS we have many modes to edit photos.

• Use the tilt-shift effect Photoshop has a great tilt-shift tool that can turn your photos into soft art.

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• Create Fake Reflections There are many ways to create reflections. One of them is to create a double exposure with the help of a separate window photo. This helps to add interesting textures to multiple-exposure photography.

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• Try simple portraits and detailed textures Combining something simple with something complex will give you a balanced result.

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• Convert the result to black and white The lack of color will enhance the emotion in the double-exposure image.

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• Use silhouettes Many double-exposure photographers choose to use silhouettes. Try silhouettes of yourself, other people, or random objects. Anything else that catches your eye can create a unique composite image.

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• Choose two random photographs Many double exposure photographs are happy accidents.

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• Make Simple Objects Look Fascinating Photograph everyday objects that you usually take for granted. Try to make them look like something else. This technique will enhance your imagination.

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• Use Shadows Any type of silhouette is perfect for double exposure photography. Shadows are just as effective as this type of silhouette.

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Photoshop's blending modes are then introduced. Using blend modes is almost always an experimental process. This is because it is almost impossible to predict the results. And an example was shown to demonstrate how to use blend modes.

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INSTRUCTIONS

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WEEK 5: PRACTICAL (B)

Mr Fauzi provided the video for us to use ps to create this photo.

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Steps: First we learned how to snap the character we wanted, then we placed the character in the right position, then we blended the colour of the character into the background.

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Then use the brush to draw the shadow of the character to make it more three-dimensional, and then use Gaussian blur to blur the shadow into the background. 

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After that, we created a shadow for the character, duplicated the layer to change the transparency, then made a mask by path selection to leave the useful part, and finally changed the color and blur into the background.

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This is what I made using my own photos:

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FEEDBACK

This week Mr. Fauzi critiqued and checked our week 5 homework. He also showed us how to re-colour our black and white photographs.