DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING

April 12, 2019

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING - EXERCISES

4/4/19 (week 1)
Neoh Kar Yan (0339338)
Digital Photography & Imaging
Exercises

INSTRUCTIONS

EXERCISES

WEEK 1 (2/4/2019)

Hearst Mansion

Our first class started with Mr Jeffrey giving us a brief introduction to the module and expectations of what to come throughout the semester. After that, we jumped right into Adobe Photoshop. It was my first time using this software but Mr Jeffrey made it easy for us by teaching us some shortcuts. We started off by playing around with the features in photoshop. Our first exercise was to photoshop Shazam into the Hearst Mansion. From this lecture, I learnt some features such as quick selection, deselection, match colour, free transform, apply shadows and reflection and more.

This week's skillset:

Open image file in Photoshop
Selecting image using Quick Selection
Zoom in, out and panning images
Copy and Paste
Deselect Images
Undo and Redo
History
Layers
Deleting Layer
Duplicating Layer
Rearrange Layer
Opacity Layer
Transform Layer
Hue and Saturation
Match Color
Move Tool
Shadow Painting
Filter > Noise

Our next exercise was to photoshop ourselves into Hearst Mansion and to make it look believable.

I used the techniques that I've learnt in class and here is the result:

Fig.1.2: The Final outcome

WEEK 2 (9/4/2019)

Ghost House

This week of lecture we learnt how to photoshop a ghost bride into a house. Below were the pictures used in this exercise.

This week's skillset:

Adding Layer Mask
Selective masking
Brush masking
Creating Smart Object
Rasterizing Image (To revert to layer)
Blending Modes (Shift +)
Cycling through blending mode with the keyboard
Invert mask (image > adjustments)
Gradient Tool

Fig.2.1: House

Fig.2.2: Blue sky

Fig.2.3: Ghost Bride

Fig.2.4: Final outcome of ghost house

After the ghost house exercise, we had another exercise which is to mask the sky background to a house. Below were the pictures used in this exercise.

Fig.2.5: House

Fig.2.6: Sky background

I combined these two images into one and matched the colour of the house to the sky background.

Fig.2..7: The final outcome

WEEK 3 (16/4/2019)

Recolouring

This week, we learned how to recolour black and white or discoloured images into coloured versions. To start off, Mr Jeffrey taught us how to recolour a potrait of an old man.

This week's skillset:

Recolour
Hue/Saturation (command + U)
Blending modes (Shift +), [soft light]
Pen tool
Blur tool
Selective masking (command + click the layer boxes)
Vector tool

Fig.3.1: Black and white potrait (Before)

Fig.3.2: The recoloured version (After)

For this exercise, I've decided to dig up an old photo of my grandparents when they were young and try to recolour them into their original state. Below is the photo before.

Fig.3.3: An old photo of my grandparents (Before)

I recoloured their skin, eyes, face, lips, eyebrows, clothing and the background. Here is the final outcome:

Fig.3.4: The final outcome (After)

WEEK 4 (23/4/2019)

Changing One's Stripes

We learned how to apply and change textures on a flat photo and create hybrid animals.

This week's skillset:

Blending modes
Smart Object/Filter
Displacement

Fig.4.1: Indian flag on cloth

Fig.4.2: Snake skin on potrait

For this exercise, I chose to photoshop the texture of giraffe's skin onto a polar bear.

Fig.4.3: Giraffe's skin

Fig.4.4: Polar bear

Fig.4.5: Final Outcome of hybrid animal

WEEK 5 (29/4/2019)

Castle of Pyrenees

For this weeks exercise, we were introduced to a painting by Rene Magritte called the Castle of Pyrenees. Below is the original picture.

Fig.5.1: Castle of Pyrenees by Rene Magritte

We were told to recreate a surrealistic artwork that is based on the painting but we were given the freedom to put our own touch into our work as long as the concept is the same. Below was my first outcome, It didn't turn out well because I just did it like a trial.

Fig.5.2: First Attempt

Fig.5.3: Second Attempt

After doing my second attempt, Mr Jeffrey said that it doesn't look realistic enough. Thus, I scraped everything and reworked on a new piece. Below are the reference photos that I used for my final outcome.