Intermediate Digital Photography
This page displays some digital photography projects and explains the basic procedures used to create them.
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My Flight Photo Story Accordion Booklet Project
My Photo Story Accordion Booklet Project has been completed in the Photography 48 (Intermediate Computerized Digital Photography) course (Spring 2013, at East Los Angeles College), taught by Professor M. Hughes. The story is about the flight of Beebee, a toy animal, on a toy helicopter in one day. Digital photos of toys, interior and exterior scenes have been taken to provide materials for photo-montage in Photoshop.
The Booklet
Suggested Project:
Select your favorite stuffed animal as the hero or heroine of your toy story, and give him or her a special name. Write a short story describing the one-day activity of your hero or heroine, in Microsoft Word, in12 point Times New Roman font, single-spaced, 6 point spacing between paragraphs, within the limitation of two pages (in 8.5in x11 in page size with default margin settings). Create 10 pages of 3 inch by 3 inch digital illustrations in Photoshop using elements from digital images you take from stuffed animals, toys, scenes from inside your house or apartment, from public parks, gardens or other natural attractions (do NOT use any picture downloaded from the Internet). Draw quick concept sketches for the 10 illustrations first, with a B series pencil, on 8.5 inch x 11 inch white paper, scan your drawings, save them as JPEG files, and combine images from scanned concept sketches into one single JPEG file. Next, create 10 single digital illustrations in Photoshop. Save the images as Photoshop .psd files at 300 dpi resolution. Next, create a 15 inch by 6 inch Photoshop file with 300 dpi resolution, display the Ruler and draw guides to separate the 3 inch by 3 inch digital illustrations; turn the Snap from the View menu on. While the10 single illustration files are still open, temporarily collapse the layers and copy the entire images to the Clipboard, and close the files without saving them. Next, paste the images to the 15 inch by 6 inch Photoshop file; and with the help of the Snap option, move the images to their right places. Save the file. Next, change the Image Size to 72 dpi Resolution (Figures DPH-1T and 1U), and go to the File-Save for Web menu to save it as a JPEG file at High resolution (Figures DPH-1V and 1W) for the possible publication of the image on my website. Email the single JPEG concept sketch file and the 15 inch by 6 inch Photoshop JPEG file, the story in Microsoft Word together with a short paragraph stating your request and authorization to publish it on my website’s Student Works Section, including your name and the name of your school; if you want viewers to contact you through email, please indicate so.
The Materials Used as Graphic Elements
The Story Sequence
Figure IDPH-1V (left). The File-Save for Web menu window. First select the Size/Loading Time setting by clicking the popup menu triangle; the download time needed for the image will show up; next, select the JPEG from the fill format pull-down menu, select High from the resolution pull-down menu, and click the Save button to save the file to a desire location.
Los Angeles Area Scenery Project
The Los Angeles Zoo Animal Project
Changing Color Schemes and Applying Filter Effects to
Different Parts of the Images with Smooth Transitions between the Areas In the exercises on the left, different parts of the images have been selected with the Polygonal Lesso Tool first, and a reasonable amount of Feather have been applied to allow smooth transitions between the areas when color changes or filter effects are made to the feathered selections. Color scheme alterations are made with similar methods explained in Figures DPH-2B, 2C and 2D. Filter tools are from the Filters menu, and especially from the Filter Gallery submenu. The photos used in Figures DPH-3A and DPH-3B have been shot with traditional camera (a Pentex brand) and Kodak 35mm color film rolls. |
Edward Locke's SuniSea Studio
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