DPI - Project 2

26 September 2022 - 31 October 2022 / Week 5 - Week 10
Sim Jia Min 0349784
Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Project 2: Digital Imaging Exercises & Product Shooting

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INSTRUCTIONS (MIB)

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LECTURES

Week 5: Double Exposure

Week 6: Product shooting & editing 1

Week 6: Basics of exposure setting: IRIS, ISO, shutter speed

Lens perspective: each length of the lens have different characteristic (24mm, 50mm, 85mm, 100mm....)

Week 7: Product shooting & editing 2

Week 9: Digital Surrealism

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PROJECT 2A, 2B & 2C 

PROJECT 2A:

DIGITAL IMAGING EXERCISE 1

- Photo Manipulation (Hearst Mansion)

Submission: WEEK 6

DIGITAL IMAGING EXERCISE 2 

- Recoloring Black & White

Submission: WEEK 7

PROJECT 2B: Double Exposure

- Exercise 1: Follow tutorial

- Exercise 2: Your own Double Exposure portrait

PROJECT 2C: Conceptual Product Photoshoot

Timeframe: Week 9 - Week 11

- RESEARCH: 5 marks (WEEK 6)

- SHOOTING TECHNIQUES: 5 marks

- LIGHTING TECHNIQUES: 5 marks

- EDITING & POST PRODUCTION: 5 marks (WEEK 9)

Project 2B: Double Exposure 

Week 5: Double Exposure Practical Exercise

Self-taken photos for my own double exposure:

Figure 1.1: Self-taken photo 1, right eye

Figure 1.2: Self-taken photo 2, refraction light of water bottle

 

Figure 1.3: Making process of double exposure

My intention for this creation is to apply the unique shape of refraction light on the right eye photo. I first add a gradient layer to adjust the colour of the right eye photo into grayscale, then overlay it with the refraction light by using hard light mode and lowering the opacity. I also erase some of the unnecessary parts other than the refraction light after overlapping.

Project 2A: Heart Mansion breakdown  

Heart Mansion (My photo version)

My plan is to move that pastry from figure 1.5 to figure 1.4, placing it together with other food on the table.

Figure 1.4: Self-taken photo 1

Figure 1.5: Self-taken photo 2

Figure 1.6: Edit process on Photoshop: using lasso tool to crop, match colour & adding shadows

Figure 1.7: Final outcome

Project 2A: Recolouring Black & White 

Figure 1.8: Follow the demo video to do the exercise

Figure 1.9: Work in progress

Project 2C: Conceptual Product Photoshoot

Idea sketches:

Pinterest board for Project 2 ideas: https://pin.it/63W2Xy9

Figure 2.1: Work in progress

Figure 2.2: Adjusted layers (layer mask, brightness & contrast, colour balance, vibrance, drawing shadows, etc.)

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PROJECT 2: FINAL SUBMISSIONS

Project 2 submission

Project 2C submission

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REFLECTION

Project 2 is a very nice experience to learn more about using Photoshop to manipulate photos, especially doing all the digital imaging exercises has helped me to quick learning the use of the tools on Photoshop. I also noticed that my skills of using the tools have developed by doing the exercises, I become more familiar and comfortable with using Photoshop to edit photos, my speed of editing photos also become faster than before. Learning double exposure is a very interesting exploration for me, since I found it is a quite useful and practical technique to apply to any kind of photo editing. I did face several struggles during this project, I found that it is quite difficult to satisfy with the photo editing sometimes, because I always feel that there is something unnatural about my edited photos: the lighting, the shadow, or the colour balance. At some point the editing process became a little bit exhausting since I can't reach the expectation in my mind.