Digital photography and imaging - Week 9

-19/11/2025(Week 9)

-Takeguchi Shunta/0386416/Bachelor of Design in Creative Media



LECTURE

Introduction to digital surrealism. I could learn about the difference between realism and surrealism. I thought it would be interesting to combine surrealism with a serious theme or realism with a fantasy theme to create a gap between the image and the artwork.



TUTORIAL


Introduction to loop animation creation. It seemed hard to move the background, text, and objects. But I want to try to utilize it in my project 3.



EXERCISE

No exercise for this week.


PROJECT 2



The professor gave me an improved idea in the week 9 class, so I started all over from the shooting process. 
He suggested putting an apple, which will not be edited, behind the blister pack, like the picture below.  This change makes it easier for viewers to identify the objects as apples than previous work. 

Apple and blister pack


Apple

Apple 2


The process in Photoshop is almost the same as the previous work.
1. Removing background from each photo
2. Using the ellipse tool, make circles to match the shape of the white pills
3. Select the circle shape and Edit > Content-Aware Fill

Content-Aware Fill screenshot


4. Place apples in the blister pack
5. Create adjustment layers and clipping masks for grouped apple layers

Curves adjustment


Brightness/Contrast adjustment


Hue/Saturation adjustment


6. Adding blur effects for apples

Blue effect screenshot


7. Adding noise effect for apples

Noise effect screenshot


8. Adding shadows using by black pen tool

Shadow on the bottom left of the apple


9. Duplicate the pill-shaped background created with content-aware fill and place it on top of the apple with soft light and opacity 34% to make the apples look like in the pill stocks

Duplicating screenshot


Screenshot after placing it on the apple


Final work


Compared to the previous work, this work is better at recognizing that the objects are apples. The apples taken out of the blister pack also add movement, which I think makes the piece even more profound.



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