Week 5

 

Week 5

Lecture

Double Exposure

In today's class, we learn about Double Exposure. Double exposure is a kind of edited photography that blend in 2 or more images, with different techniques, it brings out different effect. Inside the Photoshop, we have different blending effect that can be used to create double exposure. 

I continue on my assignment for project 2A. 

Hearst Mansion with My Reflection:

I will use these two photos for this exercise. Following the same steps, I will add in these two of my pictures into Heart Mansion. I crop them out and paste it into Heart Mansion. I adjust their scale. 

I adjust one of them first, I adjust the colour to match the environment, added noise, adjust the hue/saturation. I found the photo is way too yellow, so I use colour balance to adjust it to more blue. It looks more balance now. 

I add in my shadow. It's very light as there's a lot of light around, the reflection should be a lot blurrier and light because of diffusion. 

I then add in my reflection with just a little ripple effect. Done. 

I do the same thing for the second me. For this, I adjust the contrast a little because it looks too contrast at first. I also added just a little bit of shadow under the foot only, because it situated at a very strong light area, there shouldn't be much shadow. I then added in reflection with ripple effect. Done. 

 

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Recolouring B & W photo - Extra exercise 

B&W photo chosen:

Skin and cloth references (Left) & Hair colour reference (Right):

Process:

I first extract the colour out for skin, hair and cloth. 

I use object selection tool to choose the hair and refine it using refine edge brush tool. I mask the layer and got the result below. I use hard light, because its original hair is really dark, using hard light blend can show more colour. 

I then do the same thing for the skin, I left out the ear and right arm because it is more of a darker shad, I want to mask it with another shade. But, after I try it, I found that it is better to use the same colour to create a balance skin tone. 

 

I continue the same steps for eyebrow, lips, eyelashes. Then, the jewelry. 

For cloth, I use selection brush tool to select the leaves pattern on the top, after selecting, I add a solid colour layer and use it to create a clipping mask for it. Then I use quick selection tool for the other part. 

 

Then, I add colour to the background too. Done!!!

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Tutorial & Practical

PART 2: Double Exposure Follow Tutorial

In this project, we will need to follow the tutorial video given to create a double exposure photography, it's like a movie poster. I found it very interesting. These are the photo given to do this practice. 

First, I add in the photo and select the woman only using the quick selection tool. I then go to select and mask to refine the edges. After creating the layer mask, I add a solid colour layer to give it the background colour. I adjust the contrast of the photography by using curves. (The photo below is screenshotted after a lot of progress, so it looks weird.)

I then add in the forest photo and mask it onto the woman. I use the brush tool to clean off the edges so both of the photo looks well blend in together, without any weird edges. I then add in the birds photo. Using darken to blend the images together. I situated the birds near the eye, so it looks like the birds flew from her eyes. 

 

I add in the clouds and use levels tool to adjust its intensity level. Then I add in a gradient map. I choose something from the red, because the colour looks really cool and gives off a haunting vibe, but it looks too dull so I change to another gradient map after a small consultation with lecturer. 

The above looks too dull and cannot see the depth and contrast of it. The below gradients shows the contrast and depth better. 

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