DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING - Week 1: PRACTICAL

Week 1

21/4/2025 - 23/4/2025

MIAO XINJUN, 0379525

Digital Photography and Imaging

• LECTURE:

In the first week's lecture, the professor introduced us to this semester's course content, Google Classroom, the Google Drive folder system, Collage, and the software we need to download to complete the subsequent tasks. We are required to create our own E-portfolio blog to record our class notes, tutorials, related materials, and practice exercises.

In my first tutorial class, I tried using Pinterest for the first time and learned more about software that was of great benefit to my major. This was a new experience for me. Through Pinterest, I saw many interesting works. The following are the three of my favorite works and the reason why I like them.

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Three of my favorite photoshop works

Design 1:

By John Holcroft 

What attracts me most about this poster is that it ingeniously combines the two elements of a person and a zipper, vividly presenting a social phenomenon where an individual lives in a group. Meanwhile, the color scheme of this poster mainly uses red and green, two complementary colors, as main colors, and the overall color scheme looks very harmonious.

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By Smashing Magazine

When I first laid eyes on this poster, it was as if I was looking at myself when I'm tired. This poster uses a simple color scheme to highlight the position of the person in the visual center, while these colors also convey a sense of low spirits. My favorite part is that the artist vividly portrays the protagonist's tired state through the simple shapes of waves and paper pieces.

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Design 3:

By Катя Котик

What attracts me most about this poster is that it makes good use of a large amount of simple blue to fill the poster. Only showing the protagonist's head and hands. It makes me feel relaxed and peaceful.

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TUTORIAL: 

In the first week's lecture, the professor informed us of the study content and tasks for the next week, and showed us tutorial related to Week 2's tasks as well as relevant works by previous students. We were asked to prepare collage's elements for week 2 exercise.

Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/2KqXGMf0HNk

Past students collage works:  https://fauziyusoff.com/dpicollage