Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 7 (Project 2A: Double Exposure)

 4/11/2024 -  10/11/2024 Week 7 (Project 2A: Double Exposure)

Komugi Uchibori / 0363900

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media


LECTURES
  • Colour Theory
fig.1-1 The color wheel

CMYK: Cyan, magenta, yellow and black are the primary colors of printing.
RGB: used to display on your computer screen

fig.1-2 RGB: additive color mixing

fig.1-3 CMYK: subtractive color mixing

Hue: the most basic of color terms and denotes an objects' color.
Shade: is a hue to which black has been added.
Tint: is a hue to which white has been added.
Tone: is a color to which black and white (or grey) have been added.

fig.1-4 Hue, shade, tint & tone

  • Color harmony
Monochromatic: consists of only one basic hue rendered in various tints, tones, and shades.

Analogous: 3 colors are located right next to each other on the color wheel.

fig.1-5 Analogous


Complementary: Colors are opposites on the color wheel.

fig.1-6 Complementary


Split-Complementary: involves the use of three colors. Start with one color, find its complement and then use the 2 colors on either side of it.

fig.1-7 Split-Complementary


Triadic: evenly spaced around the color wheel and tend to very right and dynamic.

fig.1-8 Triadic

  • The psychology of color
fi.1-9 The psychology of color


Warm color: evoke feelings of happiness, optimism and energy. But yellow, red and orange can also have an attention grabbing effect and signal danger or make you take action.

Cool color: calming and soothing but can also express sadness. Purple is often used to help spark creativity as it's a mixture of blue (calm) and red (intense).

Black: adds an air of sophistication and elegance, and also mystery, though with much bolder confidence.

White: gives off an impression of clean, virtuous and healthy. 


  • Elaborate 2 more colors (exercise)
Brown: A sense of strength and reliability because the color is often seen as sollid and resilience. But sometimes it includes feeling of loneliness and isolation especially it gets darker.

Blue: Feelings of calmness and relaxation. this color is seen as a sign of stability and reliability. Many businesses often utilize this color to show an image of security. Also, it reminds us of sadness or aloofness.

PRACTICAL & TUTORIAL

I made double exposure following instruction video given us and change background color. I'll explain process in my own double exposure. 

fig.2-1 Double exposure, following instruction

  • My own double exposure
To begin with making my own double exposure, I searched some examples on Pinterest and decide what kind of double exposure I do.

fig.2-2 Searching Pinterest


Here's original pictures I used for this task.

fig.2-3 Original pictures I used 


The first step is turning pictures into monochrome, going image, mode and selected greyscale. I wanted to make the headphone flower pattern so I click Flip horizontal, clipping mask and use blending mode "linear light" at 50%.

fig.2-4 The process in headphone


After that I selected my pictures with quick selection tools and refined edges to make it smooth. Then output as select layer with layer mask. It feels like contrast of this image was a bit weak so I added curves layer to emphasize shadow and highlight. Plus I adjusted place of pictures.

fig.2-5 Selection and Refine

Before I started following task, I create new layer, add "solid color" and create background. I wanted to plant flower and cat on my head, So I searched youtube how to do that and watched this video:https://youtu.be/iOYz669WNpU?si=2aMmjVxXX8-A4l5K

To summarize what I did in this process, placing cat and flower pic with layer mask which reflects silhouette of myself pic. After that, match the background color with the image and unmask a part of my head with brush. Then I duplicate the cat & flower pic, delete original layer mask and create new layer mask. In the end, I could plant flower and cat on my head with brush tool.

fig.2-6 Merging into one pic

At the end, I copy the original picture with layer mask and flipped horizontal and change its size and opacity to 23%. (The others cannot be seen because I wanted to see the original picture and flipped one clearly in this picture.)

fig.2-7 Flipping horizontal 

  • My final own double exposure
fig.2-8 My final own double exposure


Ex)Some exploration & Reflection

I explored some ideas while making my own double exposure. For example I tried to make my hair starry night sky and apply to background too, like the starry sky is spreading out from my head. But I got lost in the middle of this task. Using clipping mask is kind of easy for me but applying background and within a picture was difficult. I think I have mastered the basics, so I want to be able to apply what I wanted in this task well. I thought it would be interesting to look at some videos and apply them to my next assignment, making posters.

fig.3-1 Exploration

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