Digital Photography & Imaging - Final Compilation and Reflection
Week 1-14
Chan Meiling 0337771
Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylors University/
Final Compilation and Reflection
Project 1- Exercises
Exercise 1 Hearst Mansion
Exercise 2 Cowboy
Exercise 3 Recolouring
Exercise 4 Hybrid Animal
Final Self-Titled
Self Portrait Rationale:
For this self-portrait, the idea behind it is about my unhealthy relationship with food during this quarantine. I have decided to put the grids inside the box to represent being quarantined. During this period of time, I have built different eating habits that I have never experienced before. From the start of quarantine, I have made up my mind to lose weight. I had strict restrictions on my diet and worked out excessively every day. I used to count all my calorie intakes and even chose to not eat healthy food so I could have more cookies, cakes and bread which I can’t resist. Months later, I started to binge eat and lost control of my diet completely. Soon, I started to realize my problem and how serious it is and decided that I should make some changes to it. I started to try and change my habits even though it is not easy. Then slowly, I found myself I started enjoying making breakfast and baking a lot. The pictures above are some of the pictures of breakfast I have made for myself. Besides, I have also started to drink hot beverages and I can’t help to have something warm every morning and before sleep so I decided to add me sitting on a teacup in my self-portrait.
Project 2B - Photo Manipulation
Final Cyborg
Cyborg Idea Rationale:
If I were a cyborg, the first thing that I would want is having the ability to have visual powers. I would want to have Chrono vision. I would want to see any point in time whenever I want to, from only a few seconds or minutes into the future or past, up to events all throughout time. This is because having this power allows me to know what is going to happen and hopefully I will able to avoid bad things happening or allowing me to be more mentally prepared if the situation can't be changed. Besides, having the ability to see my past will be able to remind me of the mistakes that I've made from time to time and also to remind me things I've experienced in the past.
Final Surrealistic Parallax Short Animation
Surrealistic Parallax Idea Rationale:
For this project, the idea behind this is me being seen floating on a cloud through a window frame from the interior rococo architecture building. This is because I really like the style of the interior design of rococo buildings for example museums and churches. Since I really like the pleasant and vintage vibe, I thought it would be nice to imagine myself as one of the Greek gods that are in rococo art.
Reflection
Throughout all the exercises and projects that I have done in this module, I would say that I really learnt a lot on this journey. For someone like me who has no background on using photoshop before, it was honestly really frustrating and intimidating every time when we have to learn something new. To be honest, it was quite hard especially for Mr Martin's exercise because it has to be quite technical and I had to rewatch the tutorial quite a few times to do each exercise. However, after all these practices that we had, I am really glad that I am able to pull through and with the knowledge that I got in this module, I am still amused by the fact that I am able to do something that I thought it was hard and impossible before learning it. For Mr Fauzi's exercises, it was honestly my favourite throughout the whole semester. I really enjoyed arranging compositions and I like how we can explore and construct based on our ideas in our own way without restrictions and endless possibilities.
From what I have observed is, patience is really the key while learning something, especially in the software that we are using for example photoshop and after effect since I was really not familiar with it. I realised that it is important to have the mindset to be willing to spend more time to figure out and explore is important rather than just to give up when we are not able to follow up and do something that we think it's almost impossible.
I realised that there are actually many ways to solve a problem or to construct something in a different way. For example, I realised that the techniques in the tutorial covered sometimes don't work on my artwork and I was able to come up with the same outcome by exploring and trying a different approach.
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