DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING - WEEK 9 - POSTERS

18/11/24 - 28/11/24 ( Week 9 )
Carren Yeliandi / 0376990
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media - Digital Photography and Imaging - Taylor's University
Project 2B

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Table of Content

1. Lectures

2. Tutorial

3. Practical

4. Reflection

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Lectures

WEEK 9 : DIGITAL SURREALISM

Surrealism puts a twist on realism as it explores the subconscious mind.  Create digital surrealism artworks using dream-like scenes and symbolic images.

Creating surrealism in photoshop by Steve Caplin

Salvador Dali , a spanish artist known for surrealism

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Tutorial

This week, we were tasked on completing the poster design made with our own photography that is related to the quote chosen by ourselves and an illustrated typography quote from IVN to go alongside the photo.

This week tutorial is a demo on how to create a loop animation on IG stories by Fauzi Yusoff

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Practical

First, I sketched out some ideas and went with the best one after consultation with the lecturers.

Fig. 1 Sketch of what the photographic poster will look like (28/11/24)

I then took some photography of my surroundings and myself that fit the sketches.

Fig. 2 Picture of a person leaning to the side (28/11/24)

 

Fig. 3 Picture of someone looking straight  (28/11/24)

Fig. 4 Picture of grass 1 (28/11/24)

Fig. 5 Picture of a a glass window (28/11/24)

Fig. 6 Picture of a half-wall (28/11/24)

Fig. 7 Picture of a cityscape with semi dark clouds (28/11/24)

Fig. 8 Picture of grass 2 (28/11/24)

I cut out the needed parts of the photo using lasso tool or quick selection tool and put it in a A4 canvas in photoshop.

Fig. 9 Poster version 1 without any adjustments (28/11/24)

At first I thought that they should look out the window but decided to delete the window but keep the wall.

Fig. 10 Poster version 2 without any adjustments (28/11/24)

I then adjusted the colors and lighting, I also added some shadow using a brush then put it on blending mode and lowered the opacity a little

Fig. 11 Poster version 2 with adjustments and a little recoloring (28/11/24)

After Mr.Fauzi took a look at it, he said that it was too dark so I deleted a few adjustment layers and lower some opacity of the shadow that I added.

Fig. 12 Poster with a brighter adjustments (28/11/24)

I then decided to add a rainbow by searching for a picture of a rainbow with either a transparent or white background. The one that I used had a white background hence the need to use a blending mode (multiply) to delete the background.

Fig. 13 Inserted rainbow with white background picture (28/11/24)

Fig. 14 Use of multiply to delete the white background (28/11/24)

Then I arrange 2 of them on the clouds to make it look like half a circle but hidden by the clouds and also lowered the opacity to not make it too overwhelming.

Fig. 15 Rainbow arrangement  with lowered opacity (28/11/24)

I then added a gradient map photographic filter (black-blue-white-yellow) to make it all look more united.

Fig. 16 added gradient filter (28/11/24)

After comparing it with the quote title, I decided that it was too light and made the title looks dull so I lowered the brightness of the background only.

Fig. 17 Brightening the poster (28/11/24)

I experimented a few times but in the end manages to find something that pleased me. I decided to make a new title just for DPI to make it look somewhat more readable just in case.

Fig. 18 FINAL POSTER WITHOUT TITLE (28/11/24)

Fig. 19 FINAL POSTER WITH TITLE IN COLLABORATION WITH IVN (28/11/24)

Fig. 20 FINAL POSTER WITH ADJUSTED TITLE (28/11/24)

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Reflection

This task was extremely confusing to do, at week 8 I did not know what I should do and wasted the whole week. I spent most of the time dreading on this task rather than actually doing it. I seriously thought that this will be extremely hard and refused to do it until the last moment. But when I actually made it, I realized that it was not that complicated but I just made it look complicated in my mind because I just imagined doing it rather than actually doing it. In the end though, I manage to make something that I can be somewhat proud of, I know that it is not my best work but it is my first work result so I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. Next time I'll make sure that I try it first before dreading it though.