Digital Photography and Imaging / Project 2B - Photo Manipulation (Cyborg)

28.9.2020 - 15.11.2020 (Week 6 - Week 12)
Jocelin Agustia (0345436)
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Project 2B - Photo Manipulation (Cyborg)

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INSTRUCTIONS

Week 5 and 6

Before beginning our cyborg project, we need to make some sketches. There are several sketches that I have done. and I chose to use the third one. And I also go to Pinterest to find some inspirations. On week 6 we started to submit our photograph.

figure 1.1 Inspirations from Pinterest

figure 1.2 Sketches (03/10/2020)

figure 1.3 Photograph (03/10/2020)

Week 8 

Midterm break.

Week 9 

Sir Martin demonstrated to us the first cyborg tutorial, which is to make synthetic skin and prosthetic limbs.

figure 1.4 Bora Cyborg (24/10/2020)

This week we started our project 

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PROCESS

Before we started to edit ourselves into a cyborg we need to think of a concept. I was thinking that it will be good to change one of my hands and eyes into a cyborg's. I can't see far clearly and because of that, I need to use glasses, which sometimes, could be inconvenient. For my hand, I want it to have a lot of function in it will be good if I had this kind of hand and I don't need to worry about my hand being hurt as it could be fixed.

figure 1.5 Cyborg Process (24/10/2020)

After receiving feedback from Sir Martin I changed a few things, and now it could focus more on the subject which is me. First I masked out myself from the background so I could adjust them differently. I also lower the opacity of the foreground as Sir Martin told me. Lastly, I merged them all and used camera raw filter to adjust the colors, brightness, contrast, and others.

figure 1.6 Process 

figure 1.7 Final Outcome

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FEEDBACK

We had our feedback session and sir martin said that my picture looks too dark, and I should change a few things. Such as lowering the opacity of the foreground and masking out myself. Because in this project, the subject (me) is the main focus.

After the changes I made, I personally messaged Sir and he told me that it's better and I should submit it.

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REFLECTION

Experience

Since the first time Sir Martin showed us our seniors work for this project, I have been looking forward to it, so I am excited. I am not the kind of person to take lots of photos of myself so I am quite worried that I would look awkward on the camera.

Observation

When I want to edit myself, I watched a lot of Youtube videos on how to turn yourself into a cyborg and found many interesting methods and effects that could be used.

Findings

The process went a lot easier because of the lessons. Whenever I apply something that I learned, I will always be reminded of when the lessons were taught. When doing this project, I was already happy with my first attempt, but after the feedback Sir Martin gave me, I realized that it looks better after some adjustments, this proves that I should do more experiments.