Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 7

09.11.2023 (Week 7)

Teh Ming En/0364908

Digital Photography and Imaging-Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media--Taylors University

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LECTURES

Double exposure photography refers to merging multiple images. The goal is to make them surreal, emotional, or humorous. They usually feature silhouettes. It may look complicated at first. But it’s easy to make in-camera and in Adobe Photoshop. We didn't need a double exposure camera,  we can create them by other ways.

1. Using the Tilt-shift Effect: Photoshop has a  tilt-shift tool that will transform the photos into soft works of art. If we want to be extra creative, we can blur one of our photos instead of the entire image or blur everything except one important detail.

2. Create Fake Reflection: We can create a double-exposure with the help of a separate window photo.

3. Experiment with simple portraits and details textured: Combining something plain with something complicated will give us a balanced result. It will also save a lot of simple photos that we might discard.

4. Convert your results to Black &White: A lack of colour will strengthen the emotions in our double-exposure images. 

5.  Work with silhouette

6. Pick two random photos

7. Make simple objects look fascinating

8. Use shadow: Outlines of any kind are fantastic to work with for double-exposure photography. Shadows are as effective as silhouettes in this general. 

Blend Modes: 

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Tutorial

Photo Editing & Composition: Double Exposure

Fig 1.1 Tutorial Video

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Exercise

In this exercise, we were required to practice how to edit the double exposure effect.

The task given:

1. Take your own portrait photo (portrait mode).

2. Collect background images online (high resolution).

3. Import all images to Photoshop and convert to black & white/ monochrome (Can be mixture of colour with B & W).

4. Make your own double exposure photo!

5. Image can be landscape (1920x1080) or portrait (1080x1920)

Fig 2.1 Imaged for Practice

According to the tutorial, in this part I am making the photo more contrasting using adjustment layer-curve.

Fig 2.2 Process

After that, I have done the practice.

Fig 2.3 Final Composition

After complete the practice, we need to use our own photo to edit double exposure effect.

Fig 2.4 My own photo

The photo above is my own original photo. 

In this part, I have added the background image and added a layer mask in it.

Fig 2.5 Process

After that, I repeat the steps and added some clouds.

Fig 2.6 Process

Last, I applyed the solid color and desaturate then adjust the opacity. Below is my final composition.

Fig 2.7 Final Composition