Digital Photography & Imaging // Tasks by ( Mr. Fauzi)

24/8/2020 - 27/11/2020 / Week 1 - Week 14
Gan Shin Tung / 0346455
Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Task by (Mr.Fauzi)

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Week 3 : 

Lecture : Double Exposure & Image Blending Mode

Figure 1.1 Blending Modes

Today we learned about blending mode and Mr. Fauzi wanted use to choose our favorite blending photos from his lecture slides. I chose this as my best photo as I really like the use of color and blending composition. It shows an emotion of sadness from the photo, the use of evening light make me think of autumn and the cold air. The water drops on the glass is also shows raining weather, it creates an emotional mood. I really liked this photo blending.  

Blend Modes: 

• Normal 
• Darken
• Contrast
• Inversion
• Cancelation
• Component 

However the commonly used blend modes are : 

• Darkening
• Lightening 
• Contrast

After that Mr. Fauzi want us to come out with 3 different composition using the photos he provided and make use of blending modes. 

Figure 1.2 Composition#1

Figure 1.3 Composition#2

Figure 1.4 Composition#3

Feedback : Composition #3 is the best. Keep it up Shin!

Week 4 : 

Lecture : Match lighting. Adjustment layers, Filters

Mr. Fauzi taught us about how to match the color of object with the background of the photo. He also demonstrated in class step by step. Not only we have to match the color of the object with background, we have to color and make contrast to the object as well. Different placing of lighting will also affect the whole photo. 

Figure1.5 Color Adjustment

Mr.Fauzi said that we used too much blending on every object, try to balance them out and make use of visual balance. He want us to come out with three composition with different photos this time as well as a short reflective writing based on our design. 

Figure 1.5 Composition#1 

Reflective Writing: For this composition, I used soft light blending for the tree and screen blending for the spaceship. This composition indicates that trees can’t grow on the moon, humans use spaceships to enter the moon to do research however there is no oxygen in the moon therefore the astronaut has to leave the moon. 

Figure 1.6 Composition#3

Reflective Writing: For this composition I used blending for all three objects. This is to show balance in the image. It tells that what is inside the moon, there's spaceship landing, astronauts discovering and plantations experiment by humans. 

Figure 1.7 Composition#3

Reflective Writing: For this composition, I only apply blending mode to the spaceship. This composition is about escape, the astronaut is escaping from the moon leaving the broken spaceship behind. The dry tree represents how bad the environment of the moon is. I am making the astronaut the main object and focus therefore I enlarge it and place it in the centre. 

Feedback: Good practice Shin Tung! Keep it up

Week 5 : 

Lecture : Exposure: Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO

Shutter Speed : measurement of the time the shutter is open. Fast will get clear photo ; slow will get blurry photo. The shorter the time the image sensor is exposed to light, the darker the resulting photograph.

ISO : increases or lowers the amount of light in a photograph. Make use of natural lighting. In ideal conditions, set your base ISO (either 100 or 200), this will result in higher detail and quality. In the dark however, it’ll be necessary to use a higher ISO, with the highest typically being 6400 – be warned, this will increase the amount of grain, or noise, in the photograph.
Aperture: Aperture controls the brightness of the image. The higher the f-number, the smaller the aperture and the less light that passes through the lens; the lower the f-number, the larger the aperture and the more light that passes through the lens.