Digital Photography & Imaging - Week 5: Hearst Mansion

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21/10/24 (Week 5)
Samuel Keane / 0376236
Digital Photography and Imaging /  Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Project 1B

JUMPLINKS

LECTURES

1. What is Double Exposure Photography?

Double exposure refers to the technique of merging multiple images into one. The goal is to make them surreal, emotional, or even humorous. There are many ways to execute the technique. For example, utilizing the tilt shift effect, add fake reflections, add work on silhouettes, adding shadows and so on.

Fig. 1.1, Double exposure, (21/10/24)

 There are a few ways to work with double exposure. Here are some of them:

  • Using the tilt-shift effect
  • Create fake reflection
  • Do experiments with simple portraits and detailed textures
  • Convert results into black & white
  • Work on silhouettes
  • Pick two random photo
  • Turn simple objects look fascinating
  • Use shadow

In this lecture, Mr. Fauzi also showed us several blending techniques as well. Some of those are, darkening, lightening, and contrast.

INSTRUCTIONS

PROJECTS

Hearst Mansion

On this week, we were assigned to edit an image of Shazam and our photo into a background of The Hearst Mansion. But, before I started working on Photoshop, I need to open and download the images from the Google Drive Mr. Fauzi sent to us.

After doing all of that, I finally started working on removing the background of Shazam using the selection brush tool.

Fig. 3.1, Selection brush tool, (21/10/24)

After selecting the area I use, I put the character into The Hearst Mansion background. Later, I changed the color to match the background using the match color feature and add a noise filter on Shazam to match the background.

Fig. 3.2, Matching colors, (21/10/24)

For the final touch, I need to add shadows and the reflection on the water to make the character feel alive and not just hovering on the canvas.

Fig. 3.3, Final result

After finishing putting Shazam on The Hearst Mansion, the next task is to put a photo of myself into the same background. So, I took some photos with the help of my friends.

Fig. 3.4, Raw unedited photo

Same as before, I select the area I will use and put it over the background. Then I went through the same process and created a version with myself on the image.

Fig. 3.5, Final result

REFLECTIONS

This exercise has increased my understanding on Photoshop even more. I also realized that Photoshop holds a huge power for editing and altering images. Then, I learned how to match colors between backgrounds and objects to make it seamless. Overall, The exercise was fun and enjoyable to do.

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