Digital Photography and Imaging - Weekly Posts

22.04.2024 - 09.07.2024 / Week 1 - Week 14
Omar bin Shafik / 0371439
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

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Week 1: We were given a briefing/introduction to the module and what we would be doing for the semester. We were also tasked with our first task which was composing an image with magazine cutouts.

Week 2: Since the air conditioning still isn't running, our class was cut short. We were taught on the rule of thirds that we could use to make our images easier to look at and how to use it to our advantage while composing the image. We had to compose physical collages and pick the best one to hand in.

Fig 1, Physical Composition

Week 3: We learned about the basic controls of photoshop but the power cut out around one and a half hours into the class so it had to be cut short again.  We had to do compose an image in photoshop this time.

Fig 2, Digital Composition #1

Week 4: We went through the basics of photoshop and were tasked to create digital collages for our assignment. 

Fig 3, Digital Composition #2

Week 5: We learned about how to shoot photos and about how lighting can affect the photo taken. We were tasked to do a photo editing of Hearst Mansion, firstly editing a photo of the character Shazam into the given setting, and then with a picture that we took of ourselves.

Fig 4, Hearst Mansion Shazam

Fig 5, Hearst Mansion Me

Week 6: We learned about poster design during the lecture. We were then tasked with recoloring a black and white image in different ways, first using the brush tool with colors we picked ourselves and later using the masking tool with colors picked from other images. 

Fig 6, Recolouring Black & White Brush Tool

Fig 7, Recolouring Black & White External Colours Tutorial

Fig 8, Recolouring Black & White External Colours Final

Week 7: We learned how to create double exposure images and later tasked to create double exposure images ourselves, first following the given tutorial and second using our own image and the techniques we learned.

Fig 9, Double Exposure Tutorial

Fig 10, Double Exposure Final

Week 8: Independent study week.

Week 9: We learned about digital surrealism and moving imagery. This is when we started work on our poster for Project 2.

Fig 11, Poster Sketch #1

Fig 12, Poster Sketch #2

Week 10: We were given an introduction to after effects, learned the basics, given a tutorial and a photoshop file to play around with to learn the app. We continued work on the poster.

Fig 13, Poster Process #1

Fig 14, Poster Process #2

Week 11: I finished the poster.

Fig 15, Poster Final

 

Wee 12: We were given a demo on how to use after effects and we started on doing our final project: digital animation. I made a sketch and consulted the lecturers for advice.

Fig 16, Poster Sketch

Week 13: I continued work on the animation. I replicated the sketch and started animating.

Fig 17, Poster Still

Week 14: I finished the animation. This is the YouTube link: short