Digital Photography and Imaging / Project 2

29.9.2022 - 1.11.2022 (Week 5- Week 10)

Loke Yan Ling / 0344602 

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

Project 2: Exercises and Photo Manipulation

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Lecture

Week 5 / Double Exposure

Double exposure photography refers to merging multiple images. The goal is to make them surreal, emotional, or humorous. They usually feature silhouettes.

1. Tilt-Shift Effect
This effect transform photo into soft works of art in Photoshop. (Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift). Use blending mode with this effect will enhance the composition or layout of the photo to show the importance in order. 

2. Fake Reflection
One of the way of creating reflection is create double-exposure with the help of a separate window photo.

3. Combine portraits and detailed textured
Combining something plain with something complicated will give you a balanced result.

4. 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. Silhouette
A picture (as a drawing or cutout) of the outline of an object filled in with a solid usually black color. It can be a profile portrait done in silhouette or the shape or outline of something, especially the outline of an object seen or as if seen against the light.

6. Pick two random photo

A random process create a story of their own, one that others will find encouraging. 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.

Week 6 & 7 / Digital Photography

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Instruction

1. Follow the WEEK 5 Tutorial Demo (DOUBLE EXPOSURE)

    https://youtu.be/y2JuZUhZWZY

2. Project 2A: Digital Imaging 

Exercise 1

- PART 1 (Heart Mansion with tutorial guidance) 

- PART 2 (Own photo on Heart Mansion) 

Exercise 2  

- PART 1 (Recoloring) 

- PART 2 (Recoloring Advance Level)

 

3. Project 2B: Double Exposure 

- PART 1 (Double Exposure with tutorial guidance) 

- PART 2 (Own Double Exposure)

 

 3. Project 2C: Photo Manipulation 

- Illusion that is created by a combination of 2 objects.

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Project 2A: Digital Imaging

Exercise 1: Part 1

Figure 1.1 Heart Mansion

Figure 1.2 Poster of Shazam

Figure 1.3 Follow step by step with tutorial

This tutorial show us how to place another images into another without feeling it is two different image placing together. The image is provided. (the shazam and the heart mansion.) Thus, there are several skills such as using the blur effect, alter the saturation and so on. We are required to follow the tutorial and edit in Photoshop. Figure 1.5 is the result. To learn and apply, we added our own photos using the same steps at part 2.

Figure 1.4 Final Exercise 1 Part 1

Part 2

• Take a photo of yourself using the right lighting techniques
• Apply the Shazam’s exercise techniques
• Replace the Shazam’s layer with YOUR OWN PHOTO
• Apply suitable Color Correction to finalize your work

Figure 2.1 Light from the left

Figure 2.2 Light from the right

The photo is taken from the eye level, and I have tried with two lightning sources. As we can noticed, the heart mansion light source is from the right, so Figure 2.2 is selected for part 2. The first step is cut yourself out with the select and mask tool, then refine it detailly. Matching color is the next step which is make sure your own photo match with background. In image tool on top of the left, select the adjustment and the match color tool, the values for my photo are is with 80 Luminance, 84 color intensity and 41 Fade. The third step is adding the noise which give realistic look or create a texture, the value is added uniformly with 3.82%.

• Luminance: the amount of light emitted, passing through or reflected from a surface.
• Color Intensity: the brightness or dullness of a color
• Fade: reduce the opacity of the last adjustment, as well as change the blending mode.
• Add noise: applies random pixels to an image, simulating the result of shooting pictures on high-speed film. 

Figure 2.3 Cropping with select and mask

Figure 2.4 Matching colour

Figure 2.5 Add noise

If there have a light source then shadow will be there too. The shadow is added by brushing tool with black color. Gaussian blur in filter tools is used with 5 pixels radius to make the shadow blur more evenly and reduces the opacity to 64%. The fifth step is make a reflection of your  own version image. Duplicate and select the image, transform it with rotation horizontally, place it exactly at the bottom of the image, then cut it with the polygonal lasso tool. Adjust the reflection layer with hue/saturation tool which reduce the saturation and lightness of the reflection. The values for the hue/saturation are +27 hue, -37 saturation and -64 lightness. Finally, it came to the last step, the ripple that represent the water ripples effect. The value applied is small size with 166%. The digital imaging of part 2 have done!

Figure 2.6 Adding shadow and make it blur

Figure 2.7 Recolor reflection colour

Figure 2.8 Ripple.

Figure 2.9 Final own version heart mansion

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Exercise 2: Recoloring Part 1

Figure 3.1 Recoloring 1

This exercise is used to recover the colour of the black & white photo. The Figure 3.1 is the image provided for the tutorial part 1. Use brush tool to apply the skin tone at a new layer. Then, used the overlay blending mode to make the skin tone more realistic. This steps are applied to the hair, lips, eyes, teeth, clothes and background with different layers. After finishing all the steps, the color is too harsh on the eye and the lips, so the opacity is reduces to reduce the harshness and more natural. Figure 3.3 is the final results.

Figure 3.2 Recoloring 1 progress

Figure 3.3 Final Recoloring 1

Exercise 2: Advance Recoloring Part 2

Figure 3.4 Recoloring 2

The part 2 is the advance recoloring tutorial. Pick the skin tone from the middle image above and hair tone from exists image provided at the right of the image above, then the recoloring by create new solid layer, the color picker is used to choose the colour within the selected area, the assistance of the select and mask tool to make the recoloring more precise. Hair, skin clothes, earing, lips, eyes and teeth are cut out accordingly with select and mask tool. Figure 3.5 is the final result. Then, there is a another exercise of this advance recoloring to help us mastering it. 

Figure 3.51 Final Recoloring 2

Figure 3.52 Final Recoloring exercise

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Project 2B: Double Exposure

Part 1 - Tutorial

With the image provided, we follow the tutorial and finish the part 1 double exposure. First, select “Select and Mask” at object selection/quick selection/magic wand tools option bar. Select the mode to overlay in view mode, then adjust opacity to make sure you can see clearly when you edit. Refining the hair with “Refine Edge Brush Tool” and adjust brush size and reduce the hardness. Then create a new solid color layer and drop it under portrait layer. The contrast for portrait layer is increases by add curve adjustment layer and make the curve into s shape. Make sure the layer is in clipping mask to the selected layer. Then the forest image is added and reposition it with clipping mask. To reunite the background color with the sky color of the forest, select the solid colour with eye dropper. The two bird's images ad apply the darken/multiply blending mode to remove white background. The cloud image's uses the same step with bird images. To add filter color, add Gradient map to fill up the layer and bring down the opacity.

Figure 4.1 Final Double Exposure Part 1

Part 2 - Exercise

Figure 4.2 Photo Chooses for double exposure

Figure 4.3 Select and Mask Cropping

Then, I select one of my old photo for this exercise. I want show what I like or my hobby in this double exposure. The nature, music and animals. Thus, I developed many version of the double exposure. Because I can't really define what double exposure suppose be, so I asked Mr. Fauzi for the feedback. Mr. Fauzi prefer the first photo in Figure 4.4 that looks more suits for double exposure and that shows more that what I like. Mr. Fauzi also suggested the background color can be different from the main subject.

Figure 4.4 Different Version of Progression

Then, I add green filter color by adding Gradient map to fill up the layer and bring down the opacity. Then, the saturation of the color is reduces. Finally, I use the select and mask to  cut out the hair shape and use clipping mask. After finalizing the overall, figure 4.6 is the final results.

Figure 4.5 Different Version of Progression 2

Figure 4.6 Final Double Exposure Part 2

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Project 2: Photo Manipulation

Sketch

Figure 5.1 Sketch

Photograph manipulation involves the transformation or alteration of a photograph using various methods and techniques to achieve desired results. Before starting, we are required to have a sketch and 3 mood board for the lightning and photo manipulation references.

The first idea came from Pinterest and was my inspiration for the next two ideas. In my opinion, it tries to show that the fruit of the orange is juicy enough for fish to swim. The whole idea of the orange is to show the view of a peek inside the orange. The half orange is meant to express a small lake while the flesh alone is meant to be combined with the modern trend of the "underarm bag".

Figure 5.2 Mood Board 1

Figure 5.3 Mood Board 2

Figure 5.4 Mood Board 3

Figure 5.5 Progression 1

Figure 5.6 Progression 2

I decided develop the combination 3rd and 4th idea due to unevenness when peeling the orange skin. Different with the exercise of double exposure and digital imaging, I uses the brushes to erase unuse part. The brushes make the edges not look that obvious. Then, I apply the soft light blending mood to the water. I found that adding the another fish will echoes them each other and use clipping mask with the water layer. The last step is adjusting the layers & filters which is hue & saturation, curves and brightness/contrast.

Figure 5.7 Progression 3

Figure 5.8 Progression 4

Figure 5.9 Adjustment Layers & Filters 

Description: The oranges are refreshing and tasty, full and juicy, so juicy that the fish can swim around as if they were in the ocean. 

Figure 5.10 Final Outcome of Photo Manipulation

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