Digital Photography and Imaging: Week 1

Gam Jze Shin / 0353154
Digital photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Week 1

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Lecture - Subject Outline and Expectation:
At first week, Mr. Fauzi had brief us about the introduction to Digital photography and Imaging and also Module Briefing. In this module, we will always using Photoshop to create our artworks.

fig. 1.1 Why we need to learn Photoshop?

1. Express your creativity

fig. 1.2 Creativity

2. Create graphic design

fig. 1.3 Graphic design

3. Restoration of old images

fig. 1.4 Restoration

4. Integrated graphics with text artistically

fig. 1.5 Text to Image

5. Make use of brushes

fig. 1.6 Brushes

6. Change photo colour

fig. 1.7 Change colour

7. Rectify mistakes in photographs

fig. 1.8 Rectify mistakes

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Tutorial - Folder System and E-portfolio:

During tutorial, Mr. Fauzi explained to us about collage and showed us a video which included the steps of doing collage. Besides, he had showed us the past students' works. Hence, we can have a preliminary understanding of this module.

Demo video link: https://youtu.be/2KqXGMf0HNk

fig. 2.1 Examples of previous student's work

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Practical - Creating E-portfolio

We should create our e-portfolio for this module. After this, I had logged into my Pinterest account and create a board which include the artworks that I like. I found my 3 favourite graphic design composition work from Pinterest and provided some description. 

fig. 3.1 First favourite graphic design composition work (Pinterest)

The style I like for this artwork is that it looks neat and comfortable. Sometimes, I think the artwork does not need to be too colorful and include various colors but it can be simple in color. The object of the artwork can be drawn simply. Although it seem not delicate, it has another beauty.

fig. 3.2 Second favourite graphic design composition work (Pinterest)

The reason I like this graphic design is when I see it, I think it is cute and the whole design is very organized. It looks balanced in the arrangement and the designer is good at using space and applies well in proportions of the design. The light brown of the background with the red and blue color in the design brings a harmonious feeling to the audience visually.

fig. 3.3 Third favourite graphic design composition work (Pinterest)

I like artwork which has esoteric meanings. This made me curious and imaginary about it and tried to analyze the painting from the designer’s point of view. From this graphic design, it looks like a man left the world and broke something that was once good. This artwork expresses the designer’s sadness and regret for the man’s departure but also contains respected meaning to him.