Project 1: Collage
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LECTURES
WEEK 1: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING
WEEK 2: COMPOSITION
WEEK 3: LASSO TOOL, PEN TOOL & LAYERING
WEEK 4: ADJUSTMENT LAYERS & FILTERS
WEEK 5: DOUBLE EXPOSURE & IMAGE BLENDING MODE
INSTRUCTIONS
PHYSICAL COLLAGE
1. Compiling the Magazines
We were assigned to make collages from cut out magazines.These are from the stash that my home keeps.
2. Hand Picture Focal Point
This is from a full page size advertisement, perfect as a focal point. The vintage vibes from the gloves is also a plus. This also sets the theme for the rest of the pictorial elements.
3. Aeon Article about Small Talk Tips
This is just gold. The fact that someone made an article all about Small Talk Tips. Though to fit with the calm Ikea quotes, only a few are chosen.
4. Ikea Giving Life Lessons
Isn't Ikea supposed to be a furniture magazine? Turn out it is also a good life coach. I like how humanistic it is with the phrasing.
5. Supporting Pun Images
"You can do it yourself, but you don't have to" quote was paired with the hand, that resembles an ok sign. Could be a metaphor about how our default is to say we're fine all the time.
I knew I wanted to pair "Open up and breathe" with a box of some kind. I found an open box from the Ikea magazine, perfect.
I instantly was attached to the stacks of coffee mugs. It is quite surreal and can be metaphorical about the repetition or mundane of life. I paired it with the quote "Dirty, clean and everything in between". An homage to when I wanted a stack of plates to support the quote pun. But I like the coffee mugs more.
6. Facial Expression
The portrait has uses of Chiaroscuro, extreme lighting and shadow strengthening the silhouette. Creating impactful emotion driven scenes, fitting for the "Awkward moments are normal" quote.
7. Accent Colour
This text has a nice message, along with a strong accent colour. It is a great complementary colour, that contrasts nicely with the predominant shades of black, whites, dark blues.
8. Accent Line
To lead the eyes through the information. Also establish a colour theme, as two elements follow the same accent colours.
9. Finalised to Ikea and Aeon Magazines
I found all of these graphic elements from 2018 September Aeon and 2018 Ikea magazines. I am surprised by the text and imagery they have.
10. Composition
Composition 1
In the first composition I tried something more organic, diagonal pop of colour.
Composition 2
The second composition I utilised approximate symmetry, and a fun diagonal text along the lid of the box.
Composition 3
For the third I tried symmetry, the end yellow text looks very intentional and satisfying.
11. Final Product
DIGITAL COLLAGE
1. Image Selection
Object Selection Tool/Select Subject > Select and Mask > Quick Selection Tool > Output to New Mask
2. Focal Point
I always like to determine a focal point first, because it will be the main centerpiece, and set the theme of the piece. I like the film projector as it has antique vibes and can be a metaphor for media marketing. The shark reminds me of the surreal art pieces of when sea creatures fly through the sky. I want to make something like that. I was playing around with the elements, and the building's roof perfectly aligned with the mountain silhouette.
3. Make a Background
This makes arranging the elements easier with a plain background with no distractions. I used the brush tool to Replicate the gradient on the mountain. Until I ended up with a pink to blue gradient sky.
4. Double Exposure Building & Mountain
I was inspired by the sentiment that most tourist places are altered and run by a huge group of people. Even when it can't be seen. I wanted the mountain projecting on to the building. So it looks like the two images in one depending on the angle you hold in. I used Adjustment Layer Hard Light on it, achieving double exposure.
5. Mountain on TV Screen
It's just aesthetic, it is a variation of shot types known as framing. It can also imply the advertising industry. I placed the mountain on the TV, then selected the TV screen, Masking the mountain on it. The applied Adjustment Layer Hard Light.
6. Composition
Composition 1
It is about the media we consume, and the production behind it. I end up liking the idea of a projector being in the foreground projecting something, so I build upon it. The tv shows a picture of a mountain, but the supposed mountain is just a factory with a mountain projected onto it. There are also people walking towards it, presumably because of the television.
Composition 2
The idea behind this is the human killing of sharks for fin soup, and how we never get to see the massacre. I wanted a shark to swim through the blue sky, towards the camera. Resulting in the mouth looked very big, so I put a fencer in the mouth, so it kind of looks like a battle. I also placed a building there, colour altered so the original black and white building can look more in the background.
Composition 3
This is a vision of an ecosystem where nature and manmade stuff coexist together. The mountain and the factory line up perfectly with each other. So I added leaves and a shark for the nature mountain side. While a paper airplane and train stop at the mamade building side. It is approximate symmetry, as opposed to true symmetry. It is a more organic balance and strengthens the theme of living in harmony.
7. Improve Upon
The third composition was chosen as it looks very complete. The alignment of the roof of the factory and the mountain top is a nice touch. Has foreground, midground and background. The fencer in the shark mouth from the second composition is fun. So I combined the fencer into the third composition.
8. Blur
I made the leaf in the foreground have gaussian blur because it makes the scene look more perspective.
9. Colour Correction
The factory is now a slight pinker with bluer shadows using the RGB Curves, so it fits in more with the sky.
10. Values
The leaf, shark and paper plane are both darker using Brightness Adjustments, as it is back lit from the sun. The streets are lighter because the sun shines directly on it, and it is a leading line.
10. Final Outcome
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