Digital Photography and Imaging—Project 2

ZHAO GUAN MEI/0363166

 3/4/23-8/6/23 / Week 5-Week10

Digital Photography and Imaging / BDCM

Exercise 1: Graphic Design Composition Work 

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RESEARCH

Research 01:

1a.What is Poster Design?

Poster design is the art of creating visually appealing and informative posters. It involves combining typography, imagery, and graphic elements to convey a message or promote an event, product, or idea. Designers carefully consider factors such as layout, color, fonts, and imagery to create visually striking and impactful designs that effectively communicate with the intended audience. 

1b.What is good poster design?

Good poster design involves creating a clear and easily understandable message, utilizing eye-catching visuals, ensuring readability with appropriate fonts and sizes, achieving a balanced composition, employing a cohesive color scheme, maintaining branding consistency, and including a compelling call to action.

1c.What is a photographic poster? What is an illustrated poster?

A photographic poster is a poster design that prominently features one or more photographs as the main visual element, conveying a message or promoting a product, event, or idea through impactful imagery.

An illustrated poster is a poster design that relies on illustrations or hand-drawn graphics as the primary visual component. These illustrations, created digitally or by traditional means, add an artistic and unique style to the poster, capturing attention and effectively communicating the intended message.

1d. Share 3 good photographic posters.

fig. 1.0-1.2 Photographic Poster From Pinterest

Research 02:

2a. What is Double Exposure?

Double exposure is a photography technique where two or more images are superimposed or merged together to create a single composite image. It originated in the film photography era when multiple exposures were accidentally or intentionally created on a single film frame. This technique allows for the blending of two distinct images, resulting in a surreal and artistic effect where elements from each image overlap or merge.

2b. What is Digital Double Exposure?

A double exposure is a photograph made up of two overlapping images. You can use special Settings to create double-exposure photos directly from your digital camera, or use Photoshop to get the same effect.

2c. Share 3 good Double Exposure.

Fig. 1.3-1.5 Double Exposure 

WEEK 4

LECTURES

1. Introduction to basic composition.

• FOCAL POINT
• SCALE & HIERARCHY
• BALANCE THE ELEMENTS
• WHITE SPACE

2. Rule of Thirds.

The Rule of Thirds is the process of dividing an image into thirds, using two horizontal and two vertical lines.

Fig. 1.6-1.7

The Rule of Thirds is a way to: 

• Use composition techniques that are in line with what’s naturally pleasing to the eye. 

• Creatively use negative space.
  

• Create conversation between the subject and background.

3. Golden Ratio.

Fig 1.8 Golden Ratio

4. Composition [Framing & Cropping]

Fig. 1.9 video screenshot

DIGITAL IMAGINE- PROJECT 2 EXERCISE

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Fig 2.0 progress of Exercise 1

In this project, I followed Mr. Martin's teaching to adjust the opacity and add linear gradientand of pictures, and also learned how to use Photoshop matting.

Final outcome - JPG

WEEK 5

During this week we need to complete the double exposure exercise by ourselves according to the instruction provided by Mr. Martin.

progression of double exposure

FINAL OUTCOME

WEEK 6 LECTURE:

Exposure is the amount of light which reaches your camera sensor or film.

EXPOSURE SETTING

IRIS: Iris/Aperture is control the flow of light entering the lens.

SHUTTER: The shutter is a small plastic sheet that opens and closes to allow light onto the film or prevent light from reaching the film.

ISO: Originally referred to the sensitivity of film—it's "light gathering" ability. For digital photography, ISO refers to the sensitivity—the signal gain—of the camera's sensor.

Lens Perspective： Lenses are categorized by focal length

Focal length-Focal length is the measurement (in millimeters) from the optical center of a camera lens to the camera’s sensor. Longer focal length: Narrower angle of view .

Depth of Field-

The proportion of the image that is reasonably sharp and in focus.The smaller the aperture you use, the greater the depth of field.

Same Portraits

 Photographs of me，captured with different focal length.：

 

                        2x                                      1x                                             0.5x

Displacement map exercise

Fig.2.1 a giraffe pattern onto a sphinx cat

Fig. 2.2 a football flag onto a women's face.

WEEK 7

During this week, we have learned a new function in Adobe Photoshop called Blending options. This offers the effects that can be applied to individual layers, enabling us to achieve distinct and creative appearances for various objects within our designs.

EXERCIESE :

Fig. 2.3 edicted blending options 

WEEK 9

Fig.2.5 progression of exercise

Final out come - Jpg Flower Face Effect.

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