DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING/PROJECT 1: COLLAGE & DIGITAL IMAGING

- November 20, 2023

Week 1 - Week 4 / 26.09.2023 - 17.10.2023
Marsya Arisa Binti Mahmud / 0359684

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

Project 1: Collage & Digital Imaging

INSTRUCTIONS

PROJECT 1A

1. Physical Collage

Choose and identify your collage's design elements to be cut out and compose them into your own concept and story.
Pre-composite your collage's design elements into a composition.

2. Digital Collage

Download all of the images here to your computer: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cGcbENrjSksAaMQK9np2jb6ZaM7Y-81l?usp=sharing
Follow this tutorial demo as reference to create your digital collage: https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE
Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images that you’ve downloaded.
Create A4 canvas size (vertical) on Photoshop and start to do the compositions.

PRACTICALS

1. PHYSICAL COLLAGE

Composition
Figure 1.1: Composition Elements

The concept of these elements includes some of the souvenirs I kept from my trip to Japan when I was 16 for a student exchange programme. I dug up my old boxes and managed to find my flight ticket, which is the ‘from Tokyo’ element, a postcard with a Sakura tree which are the pink flowers you see in the design and a handwritten translation by a student we visited in one of the schools. The rest of the elements were from old envelopes and notes as well as a few artistic pieces I’ve collected that I felt would suit the colour scheme. I’ve chosen this concept mainly because my trip to Japan was the main highlight of my high school years. It gives me a sense of nostalgia and if I were to visit a place out of Malaysia, it would definitely be Japan again. The reason ‘Shattered Trust’ is in this composition is because getting to go to Japan with my friends was the best part of it all. Sadly, years after, we parted ways despite telling each other we would still be friends after high school.

Pre-composition #1

Figure 1.2: Pre-Composition Work 1

Pre-composition #2
Figure 1.3: Pre-Composition Work 2

Pre-composition #3
Figure 1.4: Pre-Composition Work 3

2. DIGITAL COLLAGE

COMPOSITION #1
Figure 1.5: Composition 1

COMPOSITION #2
Figure 1.6: Composition 2

COMPOSITION #3
Figure 1.7: Composition 3

ADJUSTMENT AND LAYERS
Improvise your best composition from WEEK 3 collage into WEEK 4 by using adjustment layers and filters

Figure 1.8: Best Composition

For this composition, I learned to use the pen tool, lasso tool and the selection tool to cut out the different images. I used the object selection tool to cut out the images that were easier to shape because it did not work on certain objects or the selections were not accurate. I chose these images because it made sense with the color scheme I was going for and the intent was to have an underground and upper ground composition. I also split one textural image for the upper and lower parts so that everything would come together.

FINAL OUTCOME

Figure 1.8: Adding adjustment layers & filters

When it comes to the adjustment layers & filters, I wanted the underground and upper ground to look more obvious so I decreased the opacity for the upper part of the background texture and I added ‘screen’ to blend the middle textural background and to make it brighter. For the bottom part, I added satin to make it darker but also added the ‘multiply’ blend mode to give a bright texture on the upper parts of the ground, as if the sun is shining towards it. I also added inner glow to the people to make them stand out more because they are the main objects within this composition.