Digital Photography and Imaging- Week 9

 LECTURES

  • Realism

Realism draws on everyday life as its source material, focusing on ordinary and authentic subjects and themes. It rejects exoticism and extraordinary narratives, emphasizing a close connection to reality rather than breaking away from conventional modes of thought.

  • Surrealism

Distorted realism seeks to explore the subconscious, presenting imagery that defies logic and is filled with strangeness and surreal qualities.

  • if creating surrealism

  1. Sketch your idea

  2. Find reference images

  3. Evaluate its realism

  4. Execute it as best as you can

TUTORIAL 

  • This week, Mr. Fauzi introduced us to Adobe After Effects, including how to create, rename, and separate layers in Photoshop, as well as how to import PSD files into After Effects.

  • Due to a misunderstanding of the assignment, the compositions I created in the first two weeks were based on images taken from Pinterest. It was only after receiving guidance from Mr. Asrizal that I realized we were required to use our own photography for the project. As a result, I decided to start over and switch my theme to "City Inspiration." However, I will not delete the process from the first two weeks in my e-portfolio, as they still reflect part of my learning journey.


PRACTICAL

PROGRESSION:

  • I began by creating a sketch based on the theme "City Inspiration." After doing some online research, I understood that the task involved capturing scenes from my hometown—places that hold personal memories. The first location that came to mind was KL( my hometown), as it has always been a meaningful and familiar place to me since childhood.

SKETCH:
Figure 1: rough sketch

  • Theme: City Inspiration: Beauty - The Scenery of Hometown

  • Title: The Look of home

  • I chose a cat as my character from the official images provided by Honor. After completing the sketch, I selected a few suitable photos from my personal gallery. For the three iconic buildings, I went to the city center to photograph them myself. Once I had gathered all the necessary materials, I began working on the composition in Photoshop.


Figure 2: My own Photography

  • Next, I began by selecting and masking the main character.

Figure 3: Select and mask 

Figure 4

  • I proceeded to crop and extract the materials I needed.

Figure 5: cropping "SUN"

Figure 6: working on the layout

  • To work more efficiently, I pre-cut all the assets and then focused on laying them out and refining the composition step by step.

  • Once the layout was done, I added some noise, fine-tuned the brightness, and applied a gradient map for better visual effect.

Figure 7

Figure 8

  • After completing the square poster, I repeated the same steps to adapt it to the normal screen format, then added the timeline and finally imported it into the official Honor template.

  • I renamed all the layers to make things easier when animating later on.


FINAL OUTCOME:

FOLDING SCREEN POSTER:


NORMAL SCREEN POSTER:

VISUAL DESIGN: 


FOLDING SCREEN:

NORMAL SCREEN:


REFLECTION

  • Although I faced some setbacks at the beginning, they weren’t major problems. The most important thing I learned from this project was how to manage my workflow. Even though the process was time-consuming, it gave me more confidence in digital poster design and adapting layouts across different formats.






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