Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119)

25/10/19 - 29/11/19 (Week 9 - Week 14) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Digital Photography & Imaging Final Project LECTURE NOTES Final Project For this project, we are to create a dystopian/utopian "futurescape" by using separate elements from other images to create a landscape of our own, in a way that depicts our vision of what the future could look like. The final image is then to be animated on After Effects as well. INSTRUCTIONS FINAL PROJECT I started off with sketches of the ideas I had in mind. My ideas mainly revolved around the idea that an apocalyptic event caused the urban areas of the planet to decline and deteriorate, and subsequently, nature had begun to take over once more. The imagery would essentially consist of dilapidated buildings and other urban elements being covered in greenery, as well as oversized trees and other sorts of plants in the background. Fig. 1.1: Sketches 1 Fig. 1.2: Sketches 2 Fig. 1.3: ...

04/10/19 - 18/11/19 (Week 6 - Week 8) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Digital Photography & Imaging Project 1: Surrealism LECTURE NOTES Project 2: Surrealism For this project, we are to choose an image as a main subject and change part of it using elements from another image to create a surrealist photo. The end result is meant to be surreal but believable. We are to then animate the image as well, on Adobe After Effects. INSTRUCTIONS PROJECT 2: SURREALISM I started off with drawings of the kind of ideas I had in mind, and I showed these to Mr Martin. After going through these with me, he approved the 'goose + megaphone' idea for me to go ahead with. Fig. 1.1: Sketches (1) Fig. 1.2: Sketches (2) Fig. 1.3: Sketches (3) I began by searching for a picture of a goose (or geese) that I can use as the main subject of the picture. I wanted the posture of the animal to show that it was already making a noise, so that when I Photosho...

30/08/19 - 01/11/19 (Week 1 - Week 10) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Digital Photography & Imaging Project 1: Exercises LECTURE NOTES Lecture 1: Introduction & basics of Photoshop 30/08/19 (Week 1) Our first class began with an introduction by our lecturers, Mr. Chong and Mr. Jeffrey, of the general module and lesson breakdown. We then got to know our classmates by doing our own introductions. Afterwards, we began a lesson on the basics of Photoshop, starting with how to place an object on a background and editing it so it blends in properly. For this lesson, we were given a background and a character to Photoshop onto it: Fig. 1.1: Background - Hearst Mansion Fig. 1.2: Figure to Photoshop - Shazam We learned how to use selection tools pick out Shazam from the rest of the poster and then isolate him using a layer mask. Fig. 1.3: Layer mask around Shazam We then learned to import him into the background image, place him and then edit the image ...