DPI Week 7 / Recolouring / Double Exposure

Week 7 (19/5/23)
Janice Marie Eng Chia Hui
0361521
Bachelor of  Design in Creative Media / Digital Photography and Imaging
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Lecture

This week we learned the principles of design which are contrast, emphasis, repetition, balance and alignment, movement, proportion and white space. We also learnt how to recolour black and white pictures into coloured drawings. Other than that, we also learnt how to do double exposure. 

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Instructions

Turn a black-and-white drawing into a colour photo with the help of the brush tool, blending modes and solid fill option.  Next, we were to do our double exposure exercise. 

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Task 

BNW RECOLOUR

We were given a black-and-white image to recolour. During the recolouring process, I tried to make it realistic by bumping down the opacity and playing with the hue/saturation. I also realised that I liked lipsticks a lot. 

Figure 1.1 B n W portraits 

Figure 1.2 Uhhh Slay?

Final Result 

Figure 1.3 Coloured man (joker based)(19/5/23)

Figure 1.4 Coloured Girl Image(19/5/23)

After this exercise, we were given a gallery of BnW portraits to choose one from and colourize it. I decided to choose the Obama portrait to colour because he looked happy in it.

Figure 1.5 Process colouring chosen BnW pic

Final Pic

Figure 1.6 Coloured pic(19/5/23)

DOUBLE EXPOSURE

Double exposure is combining 2 or more pictures together, usually done with photography but can now be done with ⁘TECHNOLOGY⁘. We started off with some exercises. After that we were asked to take a portrait of ourselves and double expose them. 

Figure 1.7 Double exposure exercise process(22/5/23)

Figure 1.8 Double exposure exercise 2 process(22/5/23)

Final Work(I'm not sure which one to pic so pls pick the one that can give me higher marks)

Figure 1.9 Double Exposure exercise (22/5/23)

Figure 1.10 Double Exposure Self Portrait (22/5/23)

Figure 1.11 Double exposure 2nd

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Reflection

I struggled a bit with the double exposure assignment. I think it maybe because of the picture I choose or my skill issue but who knows. Through this assignment, I manage to learn more about the blending modes and filter adjustments as well as the clipping mask. I generally enjoyed the recolouring process because it was like applying make up to an image. The double exposure exercise where we had to use an image of ourself was the bane of my existence :D.