Digital Photography and Imaging / Week 7

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 November 9 / Week 7

Sheren Princessa Davon / 0362134

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

LECTURE

Double Exposure: merging 2 or more images together

Turn your head to the right by Dan Mountford
Fig 1.1 Double exposure example

Possibilities with double exposure:

- Create fake reflection & experiment with different textures:
double-exposure image of Taya Ivanova's self portrait and raindrops Atmospheric double-exposure image of a female model overlayed with textured raindrops
Fig 1.2 Left: Rainy window reflection. Right: Texture experimenting

- Convert results to black & white: strengthens the emotions
Black and white double exposure effect of flowers over a female model
Fig 1.3 BnW Double Exposure

- Work with silhouettes and shadows
double-exposure image of a male silhouette and a forest Two images combined in one, using a male shadow and a mountain landscape
Fig 1.4 Silhouettes and shadows

- Makes 2 or more random/simple photos and images more interesting
Double-exposure images of a cityscape and starry sky A silhouette of a woman double exposed with an image of clouds
Fig 1.5 Unique Double Exposure effect

TUTORIAL

After the lecture, Mr. Fauzi shared some slides on how to create a Double Exposure work on Photoshop.

Fig 1.6 Tutorial Slides

PRACTICAL

We were tasked to recreate the Double Exposure example given by Mr. Fauzi. Afterwards, we were to create our own version with photos of ourselves.

Part 1 - Project 2A: Photo Manipulation

Following the tutorial, I first masked the object using the Quick Selection Tool and added a Curve adjustment layer.

Fig 2.1 Mask layer and adjustment layer

Then I added the trees by creating a clipping mask, un-masking the face and erasing/adding using the Brush Tool, placing them in the bottom and the sides to create the illusion
Fig 2.2 Adding forest

Finally, I added the clouds and birds  in the background, and added a neutral gradient fill.
Fig 2.3 Adding elements and gradient fill

Final Part 1 - Project 2A: Photo Manipulation

Fig 2.4 Final Double Exposure Part 1 - JPG. Week 7 (09/11/23)


Part 2 - Project 2A: Photo Manipulation

After knowing the steps on creating a Double Exposure piece, I took pictures of myself and started to create my own Double Exposure version with another old picture of myself on the beach.

Below are the pictures I used of myself:

Fig 3.1 Pictures of myself. Left: Pic #1. Middle: Pic #2

First, I used the Quick Selection Tool to mask myself (Pic #1), used the Brush and Refine Edge Brush Tool to clean it up, then added the background fill color.

Fig 2.3 Layer mask and background

Then, I created a clipping mask to insert the picture of me on the beach onto myself. I used the Brush Tool to mask out my face, then created a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer to make the pictures Black and White.
Fig 2.4 Main object progress 

I got the idea to add flowers to the lower part, so I did that and added the clipping mask. I used the Brush Tool again to mask out some parts, I also used the brush called "Kyle's Paintbox - Wet Blender 50" to help create the look of the brushed/jagged edges. I also created 


Fig 2.4 Adding flowers

I created another layer mask with Pic #2 of myself, the same step I did with Pic #1; created the clipping mask and used the blending mode Multiply and turned down the opacity to 37%. I also added the seagulls for the final touch.

Fig 2.5 Adding final portrait and seagulls

Then I decided to bring the saturation back up a little to -65 in order to give it color and also adjusted the curves. 

Fig 2.6 Adjusting Saturation and Curves

Finally, I added a black and white gradient fill, setting the blending mode to Overlay and turned down the opacity to 54% to make it more soft and subtle.

Fig 2.6 Gradient

Final Part 2 - Project 2A: Photo Manipulation
Fig 2.7 Final Double Exposure Part 2 - JPG. Week 7 (09/11/23)

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