DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING - WEEK 3

Week 3

NAME: ZHANG QIYU

ID: 0384019

COURSE:Digital Photography and Imaging

GROUP: 2

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Lecture

Introduction To Photoshop

• Tool Box
  Photoshop's toolbox contains multiple tool sets that can be expanded to show more tools.

                                                                                  Fig. 1.1 - Tools Box in Photoshop

• Pen Tool

      Creating paths from scratch

    

                                                                   Fig 1.2 Pen Tool

 

                                                                        Fig.1.3  Variations of Pen Tool

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Tutorial

1. Follow this tutorial demo as reference to create your digital collage:

https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE

2. Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images that you’ve downloaded.

3. Create A4 canvas size  (vertical) on Photoshop and start to do the compositions.

4. Take 3 photo of your digital collage compositions  and insert it on the section below

5. Submit (Turn In) this file in Google Classroom

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Practical

COMPOSITION #1

COMPOSITION #2

COMPOSITION #3

REFLECTIONS

The "second space" is constructed through the dynamic arrangement of trains and people. The tilted houses guide the line of sight, creating a sense of spatial displacement. The black and white sandy background intensifies the boundary between reality and illusion, while the suspended blue "sun" becomes a visual symbol connecting the two dimensions, giving the picture a dreamlike detachment. 

Using the same materials but changing the combination logic: Multiple train carriages are arranged in a repetitive pattern, creating an effect of an infinitely extending tunnel. The crowd is reduced in size and dispersed around the building, creating a micro perspective of "being observed". The blue elements are transformed into luminous cracks on the ground, suggesting hidden underground spaces. 

Only the silhouette of a single person and fragments of a house are retained. Through extensive blank spaces and exaggerated perspective distortions, the picture becomes more abstract. The blue "sun" is disassembled into scattered light dots, resembling floating quantum states, giving the work an open-ended interpretation with a sci-fi feel. The three works use the same set of materials, but through changes in composition logic, they explore various possibilities of spatial narrative.