Week 5: Double Exposure

21.10.2024 (Week 5)
Emily Ong Su Yu / 0365304   
Digital Photography and Imaging/ Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Task (Exercises / Task)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Lecture

2. Tutorial

3. Practical

Week 5: Double Exposure

Lecture

Notes

What is Double Exposure?

Figure 5.1 Double Exposure Image Week 5 (21/10/24)

1. Refers to merging multiple images.
2. Don’t need a double exposure camera.
3. Double exposure effect may look complicated at first. But it’s easy to make in-camera and in Adobe Photoshop.

How to create Double Exposure Image?

1. Using the Tilt-Shift Effect
2. Create fake reflection
3. Experiment with simple portraits and details textured
4. Convert your results to Black & White
5. Work with silhouette
6. Pick two random photo
7. Make simple objects look fascinating
8. Use Shadow

Tutorial

Video Demo

How to Use Photoshop: Blend Modes to Create Double Exposure?

Figure 5.2 Blend mode in Photoshop Week 5 (21/10/24).

Figure 5.3 Image of Musicians and Smoke Week 5 (21/10/24).

Figure 5.4 Image of Combining Musicians and Smoke Week 5 (21/10/24).

Example: Combine the smoke on top of the image of the musicians

  1. Select the Layer 1 (Fire) to be on top of the Background (Musicians)
  2. Go to the Blending Modes option 
  3. Select “Screen”
  4. As a result, all of the pixels on the fire will be selected as Screen blending mode.

Practical

Project 1B - Digital Imaging Exercise

Part 1: Shazam Version

Figure 5.5 Shazam Week 6 (28/10/24).

Part 2: My Reflection Version

Figure 5.6 My Reflection Week 6 (28/10/24).

Reflections

Experiences

During the online lecture in week 5, Mr Fauzi taught us about double exposure and image blending

Observations

Double exposure need experiment with different modes and fill opacities until you get the results you’re looking for.

Findings

Learning how to utilise Photoshop was critical because it would be quite useful in our design work.


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