Digital Photography and Imaging | Week 3

 

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING GCD 61204

Name: Isaac Yaw Wai Zac (0343197)
Course: Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Mechanical Engineering
Module: Digital Photography and Imaging // Mr. Fauzi Yusoff

Group: A

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WEEK 3: LECTURE

Figure 1.1: Week 3's Lecture session

    In this week's session, our lecture covers the very basic tools and features in the Adobe Photoshop software such as the lasso tool, pen tool, and layering of different elements. The tutorial session was then conducted and the examples were shown by our lecturer to create 3 example compositions with the given pictures. It would be quite a challenging and interesting task to be done by all of us this week because all of us will have the same images to work with and create our compositions. The given images are as shown below. 

Figure 1.2: Elements to be used for digital collage project

WEEK 3: PRACTICAL 

    In this week's task, we were assigned to create 3 different compositions digitally with the use of Adobe Photoshop software. It was a very challenging task because I do not have experience in using this software and had to learn from scratch. However, the lecture session done by Mr. Fauzi allowed us to understand better and to complete this task. 

Figure 2.1: Video progress for digital collage project

Video

Figure 2.2: 3 compositions for digital collage project

Link

Figure 2.3: 3 compositions for digital collage project

Figure 2.4: Composition #1

Figure 2.5: Composition #2

Figure 2.6: Composition #3

Feedback from lecturer

    From the reply received from Mr. Fauzi Yusoff, he chose the first composition (composition #1). I myself also agree and like that composition. Although composition #1 is less complicated compared to the other 2 compositions, I would say that its simple design makes it look more soothing when viewed. It also gives rusty vibes because of the camcorder and typewriter in the foreground and having the square and circle elements to highlight the fish as the subject whilst having buildings as the background to show different perspective.