Digital Photography and Imaging | Project 2
20.9.2021 (Week 5 ) - 18.10.2021 (Week 9)
Nur Allyssa Nabilah Binti Mohd
Nizam / 0337796 / BDCM
Digital Photography and Imaging
Project 2
A&B
LECTURE
INSTRUCTION
Project 2A Part 1: Hearts Mansion
After completing our Project 1, Mr Martin gave out part 1 of our task for
Project 2A. For this particular task, we have to take pictures of ourselves
and edit them into the hearts mansion picture that was provided to us with the
use of Adobe Photoshop. The picture below shows the hearts mansion
picture that we have to edit ourselves into.
Figure 4.1 Hearts Mansion Image
After multiple photo taking, there were 5 poses out of all the pictures I took
that I really liked. Below are the top 5 pictures that I really liked.
Figure 4.2 Pose 1 (18/09/2021)
Figure 4.3 Pose 2 (18/09/2021)
Figure 4.4 Pose 3 (18/09/2021)
Figure 4.5 Pose 4 (18/09/2021)
Figure 4.6 Pose 5 (18/09/2021)
Figure 5.1 Chosen Picture (18/09/2021)
After finally deciding which of the photos I wanted to use, I decided to start
the editing process in Adobe Photoshop. The cropping process didn't
really take that long as I could just use the quick selection tool to select
the areas I wanted. I realized that the process didn't take that long is
because my photo background was purely plain.
Figure 5.2 Picture Cropping (19/09/2021)
After cropping out the parts of the image I wanted, I began the editing
process. Below are steps that I did for the editing process in
Adobe Photoshop.
Figure 5.3 Step 1 (19/09/2021)
Figure 5.4 Step 2 (19/09/2021)
Figure 5.5 Step 3 (19/09/2021)
Figure 5.6 Step 4 (19/09/2021)
Figure 5.7 Step 5 (19/09/2021)
Figure 5.8 Step 6 (19/09/2021)
After finally completing all of the steps and procedures in Adobe Photoshop I
was finally complete and below shows the final output of my photo in the
hearts mansion.
Figure 5.9 Hearts Mansion and Me (19/09/2021)
Project 2A Part 2: Recolouring
For this task, we are required to choose one of the black and white photos
that are provided to us and recolour them by using the method we have learnt
through doing the previous exercise.
Figure 6.1 Provided Black and White Photos
After looking over the photo options, I decided to go with the following picture:
Figure 6.2 Chosen Black and White Photo
With my chosen black and white photo, I decided to look for reference pictures that I could use to do the recolouring process. The pictures below are the ones I used to recolour my chosen black and white photo (Figure 6.2).
Figure 6.3 Recolouring Reference Photo 1
Figure 6.4 Recolouring Reference Photo 2
Recolouring Reference Photo 1:
From this reference photo, I used the guys skin tone as colour reference for my black and white photos.
Recolouring Reference Photo 2:
From this reference photo, I used the hair colour as well as his lip colour as reference for my black and white photo
Project 2B: Poster Design
In our second part of our Project 2, we are required to create a PSA (Public
Service Announcement) with a given topic by Mr Martin. So our given topic by
Mr Martin is "How Has Covid 19 Pandemic Affected Mental
Health?".
Part 1: Research
Before I started doing an in depth research for my given topic I decided to
reflect on myself on how has Covid 19 affected me since I am part of the
problem. As I reflected on myself I found that this pandemic as effected me
really hard. I found that at times I feel like abandoning the given work even
though I know the future consequences of my current action. I'd lose all my
sense of motivation to complete my work. I found that I even had the sense of
loneliness because I'm usually used to walking to campus and meeting people so
once the pandemic hit I found it hard to adapt to the environment because I
usually like working with people.
After doing a self reflection on myself I decided to do some research on
what other college experienced during the pandemic while having their online
classes. I found that they went through similar things as to I did
Part 2: Sketches/Ideation
After doing some research, I started looking into what kind of posters that
I wanted to do. Below are some posters that caught my attention. (Figure
7.1, 7.2, 7.3)
With my chosen posters, I started sketching out ideas for my PSA poster and
the below pictures are my sketches.
Figure 7.4 Idea Sketch 1
Figure 7.5 Idea Sketch 2
After looking at my 2 sketch designs, I still wasn't too satisfied with the
sketch so I attempted on combining my first and second sketch.
Figure 7.6 Digitized sketch
After combining my first and sketch, I was actually quite happy how it
turned out and thought of going forward with this as my poster design.
Part 3: Digitizing Process
Before beginning the digitizing process, I deiced to start of by taking
photos of myself posing like the girl in the center of my poster. Below are
some poses that I took for the poster.
Figure 8.1 Pose 1
Figure 8.2 Pose 2
Figure 8.3 Pose 3
Figure 8.3 Picture Cropping
After cropping out my photo, I decided to work on my poster design based off the digitized sketch that I have created (Figure 7.6). The picture below is my first attempt at my poster
Figure 8.4 First Poster Design Attempt
While looking at my first poster design attempt, I felt that the background was empty. I decided to look for a suitable background that would suit my poster design. With a background that I found I decided to amend my poster and below are the results of the updated poster design.
Figure 8.5 Updated Poster Design
After Mr Martin looked over and gave feedback to my poster design, I decided to make some minor amendments to them. Below is the newer version of my poster design after Mr Martin gave feedback on it.
As I have completed the minor adjustments to the poster, I really liked how it looked and turned out so I decided to submit the following poster (Figure 8.5) as my final poster design. Below is my final poster design and a description behind my poster design.
Figure 8.5 Final and Updated Poster Design
Description:
In my PSA poster, I’m trying to showcase what most students feel when they were stuck in the house during the covid-19 pandemic. They have a sense of loss as to what they are feeling as they are stuck at their individual homes.
FEEDBACK
2B:
Week 9
I showed Mr Martin my poster design. He said that the overall poster
design is great just that I should change the fonts. They don't match the
design of the poster. The bottom text is a bit too big and the title is too
close to the edge.
REFLECTION
For 2A part 1, I honestly thought that the editing process wasn't as hard as
I imagined to be. I realized that actually the photo taking process took the
longer time this is because I would rarely take photos of myself for fun or
as a hobby but I'm glad that the photo I took turned out great and the final
work looked nice.
As for 2A part 2, I found this to be quite interesting. I really enjoyed the
process of doing the recolouring of the pictures.
For 2B, I found this task to be an interesting task as well as the topic for creating the poster quite relates to me. Even though I had some troubles trying to complete my poster design, I was happy how the final design turned out.
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