DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING EXERCISES

2nd April 2019 -  30th April 2019 (week 01-week 05)
Ahmed Baahy Suhail (0333925)
Digital Photography and Imaging
Exercises

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EXERCISES


Exercise 1: Hearst Mansion

This week we learnt how to use the quick selection tool to crop put elements and place into different backgrounds. Then we were taught how to make these cut outs blend with the background by adding shadow. This was done with brush tool and adjusting the opacity. Another thing mentioned was how to lower quality if the original is not that clear so we figured out how to add noise to an image.

Original Hearst Mansion

Altered Hearst Mansion

Exercise 2:  Ghost house / Replacing background

Adding house to sunset

Replacing background with different sky

Exercise 3: Recoloring exercise

We learnt how to use paint tool and blending mode to recolor a black and white image. Masking was used to make the edges clean so no color goes beyond the area we want it to be on. 

Original

Recolored final

Next we were tasked to choose any picture, preferably our own and recolor it so I chose this one of me which I never could find the colored picture of so it was perfect.

Original

Myself  recolored final

Exercise 4: Changing one's stripes 

Displacement mapping can only be accomplished if the object you want to put texture on is saved as a PSD black and white file. We carried out a tutorial where we placed snakeskin on this man and also adding the flag onto an uneven surface of  a cloth.

Snake skin texture on man

Flag on uneven cloth

Our task this time around was to think surrealistically and combine textures and objects in ways never seen before. What I did was add the texture of a Cheetah to the skin of a crocodile as both of these share similar traits, such as the fact that they are both experts in hunting prey and can pounce out of no where.

Crocodile image

Crocodile with texture of Cheetah ( "Creetah" )

Exercise 5: The Castle of Pyrenees

By using all the skills learnt from the weeks so far, we were told to recreate this picture and were given the option to put our own twist. I chose to use the rock provided but added my own castle and background. 

The Castle of Pyrenees (original) 

Chosen  background

Chosen castle

Recreation of the Castle of  the Pyrenees