Digital Photography and Imaging: Week 2

Week 2: 3/10/2023 

ALTAIFI, LEEN MAAN A (0367698)

Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media, Taylor's University

Digital Photography and Imaging

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Table of Content

1. Lectures

2. Instructions & Tasks

3. Reflections

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1. Lectures

Week 2 (3/10/2023): 

Today's lecture was an introduction to basic composition, such as scaling, hierarchy of scale in the subjects of the artwork, and the balance of elements. The lecturer gave many visual examples to further enhance our understanding, such as examples to the rule of thirds and the Golden Ratio. 

Focal Point: A key element to any good composition is a strong focal point, as it helps your viewers’ eyes naturally settle on the important pieces of your design first.

Scale and Hierarchy: Scale is often used to help communicate hierarchy by drawing attention toward and away from certain elements, thus signifying their importance to the communication.

Balance: A good technique for mastering asymmetrical balance is to think of each element as having a ‘weight’ to it. Smaller objects might ‘weigh’ less than larger objects, and heavily textured elements might ‘weigh’ more than flatly colored elements.

White Space: White space is mostly known as “empty space” to balance up the main focus of a composition. White space when used strategically can help boost your design’s clarity and overall look by balancing out the more complicated and busy parts of your composition with space that helps your design to breathe.

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2. Instructions & Tasks

Project 1A: Collage (Week 2): 

PROJECT 1A: COLLAGE DESIGN ELEMENTS

1. Choose and identify your collage's design elements to be cut out and compose it into your own concept & story.
2. Pre compositing your collage's design elements into a composition.

Fig. 1.1: Pre-composition Design 1

Fig. 1.2: Pre-composition Design 2

Fig. 1.3: Pre-composition Design 3

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3. Reflections

Experience

In this task, we were instructed to make a physical collage using actual cut out papers. This was also a new experience for me as I have never dealt with making traditional collages. It was fun looking for anything that could be of use from my things to cut out and use in creative ways.

Observations

 I surfed the internet to find ideas for the composition of the collage, and I observed all the theory that is applied on to the compositions, such as the rule of thirds or the golden ratio. 

Findings

I found that paper can be really tricky to work with. I'm not the most handy when it comes to cutting so I had to be extra careful with the scissors. And before actually gluing everything into place, I had to set the paper layers to plan out the composition, which was also frustrating cause it doesn't stay in place. 

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