DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING

December 03, 2018

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING - EXERCISES

28/08/18 - 22/10/18 (Week 1- Week 9)
Dk Nur Reem Rashah Pg Mohammad Apri (0336605)
Digital Photography & Imaging
Exercises
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INSTRUCTIONS

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Lecture 1: Masking & Compositing
(28/08/18) Week 1

(Couldn't attend - Late reporting as a new international student)

Exercise 1: Hearst Mansion (Week 1)

I wasn't really sure of what exactly was expected to be done as I missed the first lecture. Though, I was able to understand the general idea of the task through the instructions that were given:

"Using your own photo, "Photoshop" yourself into Hearst Mansion, use the technique learned in class to make the recomposed photo believable."

I relied mostly on the basic techniques that I knew to do this task as I didn't get the chance to learn the specific kind of technique that was taught in the first lecture.

Firstly, I searched for a picture of the Hearst Mansion and found a picture that I wanted to work with. During this time, I wasn't aware that a specific picture of the mansion was already given.

Fig 1.0 Hearst Mansion

Fig 1.1 Progress - Screenshot of layers

Fig 1.2 Final outcome of Hearst Mansion exercise

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Lecture 2: X
(07/09/18) Week 2

We did not have class on this week as it was a public holiday.
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Lecture 3: Masking, Matching Color, Transparency & Blending Modes
(14/09/18) Week 3

For this lecture, we were instructed to refer to a YouTube tutorial to learn how to mask, match color, utilize transparency and blending modes.

Before doing the 'Ghost House' exercise, I did a practice where I attempted to photoshop the house that will later be used for the 'Ghost House' exercise into a sunset scene background.

Fig 2.0 Sunset scene background

Fig 2.1 House

Fig 2.2 Progress- Screenshot of layers

Fig 2.3 Final outcome

Exercise 2: Ghost House (Week 3)

For this week's exercise, we were given instructions where we had to mask a house into a night scene background. After that, we were supposed to mask in a female ghost in the house and make the whole composition look more believable.

Fig 2.4 Night scene background

Fig 2.5 Ghost Bride

Fig 2.6 Progress - Screenshot of layers

Fig 2.7 Final outcome

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Lecture 4: Recoloring A Black & White Photo
(24/09/18) Week 4

For this week's lecture, we learned how to recolor a black and white image using the brush tool and color in with the preferred colors.

As a practice, we recolored this picture of a man as seen below.

Fig 3.0 Black and white picture of a man

Fig 3.1 Progress - Screenshot of layers

Fig 3.2 Final outcome

Exercise 3: Recoloring our chosen black and white image (Week 4)

Fig 3.3 Original picture - My sister

Fig 3.4 Progress - Screenshot of layers

Fig 3.5 Final outcome for recoloring exercise

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Lecture 5: Clone Stamping Tool, Healing Brush Tool & Displacement map
(25/09/18) Week 5

Here, we learned about how to use the clone stamping and healing brush tool. These tools are usually used to cover or remove unwanted parts of an image.

Fig 4.0 Image used for this exercise

Fig 4.1 Progress - Screenshot of layers

Fig 4.2 Outcome - Using the clone stamping tool to place multiple eyes and noses

Fig 4.3 Progress - Screenshot of layers

Fig 4.4 Outcome - Using the healing brush tool to remove blemishes

and using the clone stamping tool to add more eyebrow hair

After that, we moved on to learning how to use a displacement map and add texture to an object within an image.

Exercise 4 - Add texture on a flag (Week 5)

Fig 4.5 Texture

Fig 4.6 Flag of Sabah

Fig 4.7 Progress - Screenshot of layers

Fig 4.8 Final outcome for this exercise

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Lecture 6: Changing Texture & Bird Arms Exercise
(01/10/18) Week 6

For this week, we continued to learn more about textures. We used the same image, as seen in Fig 3.0, and attempted to change the skin texture using an animal skin texture.

Fig 5.0 Snakeskin texture

Fig 5.1 Progress - Screenshot of layers

Fig 5.2 Final outcome

Bird Arms/Hybrid Animals Exercise

This is a continuation of the previous exercise. For this task, we were instructed to do experimental and playful by mixing different animal traits to make one hybrid animal.

Fig 5.3 Frog

Fig 5.4 Tiger skin texture/pattern

Fig 5.5 Feline claws

Fig 5.6 Final outcome

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Lecture 6: Digital Surrealism, Recreating Castle of Pyrenees
(08/10/18) Week 7

For this week's exercise, we were given a task to recreate Castle of Pyrenees as we are further delving into digital surrealism. I decided I wanted to do something simple that expresses a calm ambiance.