Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 5

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Week 5 - 21.10.2024

Celine Christabelle Patricia / 0374872 

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelors of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / The Design School

Table Contents

  1. Lectures 
  2. Tutorial
  3. Practical

Lectures

Double Exposure

Double Exposure and blending mode

Double exposure photography refers to merging multiple images. The goal is to make them surreal, emotional, or humorous. They usually feature silhouettes.
  • Using Tilt effect
    • Blurring of the picture to get the effect
  • Create fake reflection
  • Experiment with simple portraits and detailed texture 
  • Convert your results to black and white
    • A lack of color will strengthen the emotion in your double exposure images. To express in a vulnerable way, experiment with black and white.
  • Work with silhouette 
  • Pick two random photo
  • Make simple objects look fascinating
  • Use shadow
Tilt Effect 


Fake reflection and detailed texture

Blending mode

Blending Modes


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Tutorial


Small Objects

  1. Use a consistent backdrop
  2. Household lamp as Studio light
  3. Modify lighting with plastic
  4. Baking paper for light diffuser

Medium Objects

  1. Roll paper for backdrop 
  2. Object near window for natural light
  3. DIY reflector with foil
  4. Light diffuser using plastic container that has been cut into "L" and fixed to camera

Large Objects

  1. Softbox using dustbin united lamp, then covered with baking paper

Practical

Part 1: Shazam


shazam poster

shazam background removed


shazam heart mansion

DESCRIPTION:

The shazam heart mansion consist of 4 layers, the mansion, the person, the shadow, and reflection.

  • Person - quick selection, match color, noise
  • Shadow - brush tool, gaussian blur
  • Reflection - Hue/saturation, Distort (ripple)

Part 2: Myself

Eye level picture of myself

Heart mansion with picture of myself

DESCRIPTION:

Same like the example before, The heart mansion with picture of myself consist of 4 layers, the mansion, the person, the shadow, and reflection.

  • Person - quick selection, match color, noise
  • Shadow - brush tool, gaussian blur
  • Reflection - Hue/saturation, Distort (ripple)

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