DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING - EXERCISES

Linda Oktaviani ( 0333152)
Digital Photography and Imaging
Exercises

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Week 1 ( 30/3/2018)

This class we did an introduction. After that, Mr.jeffrey gave us exercise using Adobe photoshop and he was demonstrated to us how to use some tools so we can be familiar with. for this exercise we had to add a model into a given picture of an interior of a mansion, after that, we have to add our full body picture into the given picture. I already familiar with tools in Adobe Photoshop because I used Adobe Photoshop when I was in high school but I didn't use it almost a year so i goconfusedse a little bit. In these exercises, what I've learned was some shortcut keys, masking and more.

1.1 Exercise 1

06/04/18 (Week 2)

For this week, we learn how to recolour old picture so we know more tools such as curves, level, dodge, burn brush tool and others in Adobe Photoshop. 

2.1 Original picture: Before

2.2 Original picture: After

2.3 Original picture: Before

2.4 Original picture: After

2.5 Original picture: Before

2.6 Original picture: After

This week, we even got Photography workshop with Mr. Vinod about Shutter speed, ISO and aperture on manual setting. Additionally, we also learn about zone system and we were given an exercise to take 3 picture with a different zone which is dark, grey and bright object.

2.7 Dark Object

2.8 Grey Object

2.9 Bright Object

13/04/18 (Week 3)

This week, we learned about a few blending modes in Adobe Photoshop. First exercise was we have to create zone system color and find a picture that we will blend soon.

3.1 Exercise 1: Zone system

3.2 Final Outcome Of picture Using Blending Option

After that, we instructed to edit a picture from the day into the night scene and turning it into ghost house. so, first of all, we have to search "Rumah kampong", Girl with white gown, and night sky.

3.3 Original Rumah Kampong / Kampong House

3.4 Night Sky

3.5 Girl with White Gown

3.6 Final outcome of Ghost House

Another exercise were re-color old or vintage portrait using blending option and brush tool.

3.7 Original picture: Before

3.8 Original picture: After

Moreover, we got Photography with Mr. Vinod about the various studio light which is Main light, Fill light,  Rim light, Hair light, and Background light.

20/04/18 (Week 4)

we got to learn how to add textures using displacement technique. For the exercise, we had to place a flag on a cloth texture. 

4.1 Indonesia Flag

4.2 Displacement

4.3 Final Outcome

After that,  We did the studio lighting exercise and Mr.Vinod explained to us on different types lights and also gave us a chance to take pictures of others as well as our own pictures. 

4.4 Picture Taken of Me #1

4.5 Picture Taken of Me #2

4.6 Picture Taken of Me #3

4.7 Picture Taken of Me #4

27/04/18 (Week 5)

We learned about add texture to our picture. the first exercise was adding texture to Old man pict.

5.1 Before adding texture

5.2 After adding texture

Next exercice, we have to add texture to our self-potrait that we were taken on our photography class with Mr. vinod.

5.3 Before adding texture

5.4 After adding texture

04/05/18 (Week 6)

To start off the class, Mr. jeff asked we to find picture of animal that we like and add some texture into that pict.

6. 1 Before Adding texture into Picture of Panda

6.2 After adding texture into picture of Panda 

After finished all the exercise, we were learn abouthow to tile a texture to create a pattern using the offset tool and how to 'get rid' of the straight lines using the fill > content aware tool to merge it and give a smoother look. We learned how to do this with a zebra print and how we would make a displacement map and add the texture to the picture of pebbles. 

6.3 Original Picture of Zebra Pattern

6.4 After using Content-Aware

6.5 Original Picture of Pebbles

6.6 Final Outcome

18/05/18 (Week 8)

This week, we were briefed about our first project and to get us started, we did an exercise that's pretty similar. We needed to recreate an image with Photoshop, using all the tools we've learned in the past exercises. To do this exercise, we had to search for pictures (using pixabay or any other stock images website) that are similar to be used to recreate the original image. 

7.1 Original Artwork

7.2 Recreate The Artwork