Digital Photography & Imaging | Week 5

 

21.5.25  |  Week 5

Haley Alexandra Gray  |  0369029  |  Bachelors of Design in Creative Media

Digital Photography & Imaging GCD61204

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Lecture & Practical Material

Digital Photography & Imaging GCD61204

| W5 Lecture - 

Double Exposure & Image Blending Mode

What is Double Exposure in Photography?

    - Refers to merging of multiple images

    - Goal is to make them surreal, emotional, or humourous, and usually feature silhouettes

How to create the effect :

    1. Using the Tilt-Shift effect

            - Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift.

    2. Create a Fake Reflection

            - Create a double exposure photo with the help of a separate window photo

 

    3. Experiment with simple portraits and detailed textures

    4. Convert your results to Black & White

            - A lack of colour will strenghten emotion

    5. Work with Silhouette

    6. Picking 2 Random Photos

    7. Make simple objects look fascination

    8. Use shadows

Photoshop Blend Modes -

                                 

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| Practical -

In the class, we watched a tutorial on how to do a double exposure exercise, to familiarise ourselves with double exposure, which we will then apply to our own picture to create our own composition.

Part 1 - Double Exposure Exercise :

Initial try 

At first, I has my first attempt at this exercise, however it was not accurate / equal in the reflected trees region, so I redid it.

Final Outcome :

Final Outcome

Part 2 - Double Exposure Exercise (Ourselves) :

In this exercise where we had to use ourselves as the subject, my pose looked as if i was leaning on something, which gave me the idea for something big - like a mountain. I then continued to add a moon and galaxy to keep in theme with the nature / environment. I added a gradient map and made it blue because this composition felt quite dark and cool - hence blue.

- End -

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