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DPI Week 5: Digital Imaging 'Hearst Mansion'

21/10/24 - 28/10/24 (Week 5)
Anggia Tsani Rachmadiyanti, (0368487)
Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor in Design (Hons) in Creative Media 
Section 4
Project 1b part 1: Digital Imaging 'Shazam Hearst Mansion'

 CONTENT LIST: 




WEEK 5 - Project 1b part 1:  Digital Imaging Exc 'Hearst Mansion' 

Lecture 5 - Basic Photography shooting

- In the 5th lecture, Mr. Fauzi introduced us to digital photography, lighting types and do's & don'ts.
Double Exposure & Image Blending Mode
  • Double exposure - merging multiple images to make them surreal, emotional, or humorous.

  • Tilt-Shift - PS transform your photos into soft works of art. To add this feature, go to Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift.
  • Fake reflection 
  • Experiment with simple portraits and details textured - Combining something plain with something complicated will give you a balanced result.
  • Convert photo to BnW - strengthen the emotions in your double-exposure images. If you want to express your work in a vulnerable way, experiment with this.
  • Silhouettes - Fun to do for eg: a border shape of a person's face but inside it there are mountains instead of the face.
  • Make simple objects look fascinating
  • Use shadows - adds drama and story

Photoshop Blending Modes:
  • Eg: Select the Layer 1 (Fire) to be on top of the Background (Musicians) 
  • Go to the Blending Modes option 
  • Select “Screen” 
  • As a result, all of the pixels on the fire will be selected as Screen blending mode.


  1. Tips for creating Double Exposure Photography. - https://bit.ly/2xy0OGY
  2. Photoshop Blend Modes explained. - https://bit.ly/2QTxrWe
  3. Complete guide to Blending Modes. - https://bit.ly/2UN1AYA

EXTRA VIDEO FOR STUDIO SHOOTING:




PRACTICAL EXERCISE PART 1 - SHAZAM

Mr. Fauzi gave us slides for the instructions for us to do our 'Hearst Mansion' work digital imaging exercise. This exercise covers:

1) Quick Selection Tool
2) Layer Mask
3) Filters
4) Colour Correction

 Progress: 

1) Use Quick Selection tool to subtract background. 
SHORTCUT KEYS: Zoom in/out, increase/decrease brush size, subtract from selection/ add to selection.




1) ADD LAYER MASK
2) APPLY LAYER MASK




Drag & Drop SHAZAM to HEARST MANSION, RESIZE SHAZAM and reposition. SHORTCUT KEYS: Free Transform mode, Maintain Aspect Ratio (HOLD the SHIFT button on your keyboard to rescale the layer)...



Adjust colour correction: MATCH COLOUR (Image → Adjustments)




Match image quality: ADD NOISE filter to SHAZAM...



Create SHADOW for SHAZAM 
- Create NEW LAYER (and rename as Shadow) 
- Use BRUSH TOOL 
- Draw a black shadow on the background of SHAZAM’s layer



I made shadow using black brush and reduced opacity to 63%



Apply gaussian Blur effect to the shadow layer




Create NEW LAYER to make SHAZAM’s reflection. 
- SHORTCUT KEYS: POLYGONAL LASSO Tool and then Mask
- Duplicate the SHAZAM’s layer
- Rename the layer as reflection




Adjust the colour correct for reflection layer: HUE/SATURATION (Image → Adjustments)






Apply RIPPLE filter to SHAZAM’s reflection layer...





FINAL SHAZAM JPG:



 PART 2 - My Reflection 

Our 2nd task was to use our own photo to do the Hearst Mansion exercise like the above using the same instructions and tools previously.







FINAL  JPG:


 Week 1-5 OVERALL REFLECTION 


Overall, my experience during these 5 weeks, was personally enjoyable, the classes as well as the process of working on the project, especially composing the collages. I found the lectures to be very easily digestible. I particularly enjoyed composing the physical collages as I could express myself through it. What I found a bit difficult was the first digital imaging exercise as I have never worked on Photoshop that much before, even though in my foundation year I did. 

I am really happy that in these 5 weeks I learnt a lot about basics of Composition and using Rule of Thirds and Golden ratio and more. I learnt a lot more on how to use new tools and adjustments on Adobe Photoshop. It's really fun doing photoshop for the Shazam exercise. Im happy to have learnt more on using blur effects, masking and adjustments tool to make things look more realistic. I have slowly gotten used to the shortcut keys as well.

Something I observed is that I am able to better work after looking at references for inspiration – starting from nothing is something I usually struggle with. I also noticed that the weekly check-ins helped me be more productive and procrastinate less. 


 FURTHER READING: 

1) Studio Photography and Lighting Art and Techniques - by Christian Hough


Since this week sir taught us about lighting and studio photoshoot, I decided to pick out this book in the library and read some pages of it. I liked how informative this book is. This book gives clear, practical advice on how to get creative with and achieve the best from your studio lighting. It explains and demonstrates basic and advanced techniques so you can fully understand how to light a subject and compose a great photograph. Explains lighting and camera techniques and the ideas behind them. It utilizes specific examples and diagrams to illustrate everything from portraits to still life photography. Provides valuable advice on all studio-related equipment and introduces the basics of RAW processing. A clear practical guide to learning about studio photography and working creatively with light to shoot great photographs.
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