Digital Photography and Imaging | Week 9 Project 2B

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18.11.24 - 24.11.24 / week 9
Subhana Salim  / 0375936 
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor's of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Week 9 Project 2B

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LECTURES

In week 9 we learnt about Digital surrealism

Realism :- Takes subject matters of the ordinary and common world which we call reality

Surrealism :- It takes subject matters concentrating on dream images and aims to distort the ordinary. 

Dadaism :- Is an anti war movement with art works that is satirical and nonsensical in nature.

Salvador Dali :- Spanish surrealist painter and printmaker known for exploring subconscious imagery.

Surrealism is at its best when its convincing enough that it could be real, however it is not.

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CLASS SUMMARY

In week 9 Mr. Fauzi went through our work in progress and gave us feedback. He approved our references and quote of the day. He requested that we start working on the sketches for our poster.

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WEEK 9 PROJECT 2B

This week I decided to do some more sketches and start working on my poster

Traditional Sketch

Digital Sketch

Process Work

Images I used for the poster

Adobe Photoshop

First i combined the water and sky image together

I copy pasted the water image and placed it in the bottom. I edited the bottom water effect to make it look like its underwater. I used adjustment layers such as color fill, gradient fill,  hue/saturation and brightness/contrast.

I added a strip of blue and added adjustment layers to make the effect looks more believable. 

I added the image of the kettle bell and sliced the image in half. I reduced the opacity of the bottom image to make it look like its in the water. I also added the reflection of the trees on the water to make it part of the environment. 

I added effects to the kettle bell to make it part of the environment. 

I added the splash effect to make it seem like the kettle bell is being splashed into the water

I added the image of the bird 

I added adjustments to the bird and the kettle bell and I added their reflections to incorporate them more into the environment. 

Adobe Illustrator

I imported the image into adobe illustrator. I typed out the quote using the fonts calibri and showcard gothic.

Then I changed to color of the font to dark blue 

I overlap the handle of the kettle bell and the splash to make the words 'give up everything that' to like its in the background.

I edited the word fly using distort tool

I used envelope distort with the word weigh to make it look like its wrapped around the kettle bell. 

I wasn't liking the composition as much so I made minor adjustments. I removed the picture of the bird and centralized the text. 

Final Composition

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REFLECTIONS

This assignment was very challenging as I struggle with composition. I also had difficulty making a composition with a big quote. This exercise also improved my knowledge in Photoshop as well as illustrator. I learned to combine both the programs to make one composition. I better learned to use the envelope distort tool, pencil tool, 3d tool on illustrator. 

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