Digital Photography and Imaging - Project 1

25/9/2023 - 31/10/2023 (Week 1 - Week 6)

WU ZIYANG  / 0368325

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Project 1

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LECTURE

Week 1

Mr. Fauzi briefed us on what we were going to do for our assignments and how our course module is going to be like. We were then given an exercise to complete to gauge our preferences or style when it came to design. 

Week 2
In week 2, we were taught about composition and some advice on how to create good composition, such as following the golden ration or rule of thirds. 

Week 3
 During this weeks lecture, Mr Fauzi taught us how to use Photoshop to select and crop out images from images. To select an image that we wish to crop out, we could either use the pen tool (for shapes with multiple colour) and the magic pen tool ( used to highlight flat colours only). After that we could just copy and past them onto our canvas.

Week 4
This week Mr Fauzi introduced us the adjustment layer such as brightness/contrast, levels, curves, exposure and the selective layer. He also introduced us to the filters in photoshop like hue/exposure and colour balancing our collage. 

Week 5
This week we learnt how to use the quick selection tool, layer mask, filters and colour correction. 

Week 6
This week we were taught how to recolour a black and white image as well as double exposure. 

 

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Instruction

 

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Excercise

Week 1

Design #1

Description: 

The picture is a scene that a group of people are discussing.These people are surrounded a light bulb-shaped table in the background.

Design #2:

Description:This picture is a person walking alone on a narrow road.The road is created by a eraser . the road is surrounded by many overlapping highways.

Design #3:

Description:

This painting expresses that everyone works together works together to achieve the highest goal.

PROJECT 1A (PART 1): PHYSICAL COLLAGE (WEEK 2 - 3/10/2023)

                                                        

                                                                a people's life

girls should bloom like flowers

a man is thinking

 PROJECT 1A (PART 2): DIGITAL COLLAGE (WEEK 3 - 10/10/2023)

harmony between man and nature

The story for the collages: After doing some research on Pinterest, I decided to use the pieces given to form the concept of fish swimming within the  subways. I think this concept is very special.

First  I choice the two fish , and cut them from the picture

Then put them into the subway picture , and adjust them into appropriate size.

project 2

                                              

          old object

I think the old projrctor and typewritter are old object in 20 century. So , at the same time ,I choice this old red wall .

   

project 3

a happy famliy in city

PROJECT 1A (PART 2): DIGITAL COLLAGE FINAL REVIEW (WEEK 4 - 17/10/2023)

Fig. composition 1 before edited

Fig. pratical in photoshop

DESCRIPTION: I use the brightness/contrast ratio and color level ,curve, exposure, natural saturation. After the adjustment layers and the layer, the fish loomed in the whole picture.  Once the viewers see this design, they will immediately recognize the Blue fish (in the upper right corner)  as the main character in this collage。

         PROJECT 1B (PART 1A): HEART MANSION & SHAZAM (WEEK 5 - 24/10/2023)

Objective of this digital imaging exercise:
1. Learn to take a photo using the right lighting techniques.
2. Practice the Shazam's exercise techniques.

Fig. final outcome

We then had to recreate the same process but with an image of ourselves this time.

Fig. the photo I took of meself

PROJECT 1B (PART 2A): RECOLOURING BLACK AND WHITE (WEEK 6 - 31/10/2023)

Objective of this digital imaging exercise: we are to recolour a black and white image following the tutorial given by Mr. Martin.

Fig. before & after recoloring

For part 2 of Exercise 2, we are to follow along with a demo of advanced recolouring.

Week 7

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REFLECTION

PROJECT 1A (PART 1):     I discovered we get to do a collage by using anything around us. The advantages of doing a physical collage are we can explore different textured materials and this makes the final artwork more engaging.

PROJECT 1A (PART 2):   I discovered that Photoshop's adjustment layers and filters can  be applied to sharpen and blur photos, improve colour and tone, and enhance photos.

PROJECT 1B (PART 1A):     Objective of this digital imaging exercise: To understand how to use: Quick Selection Tool, Layer Mask Filters & Color Correction.    Reflection: I learned how to add the shadow , Colour Match, Gaussian Blur, Image Adjustments and Filters.To make Shazam more realistic