Silhouette Lesson/Assignment

For this assignment you will hone your skills creating silhouettes in Photoshop and capturing them with the camera.  This assignment has 4 parts:

1. Take an image of yourself in class (profile view).  Set the timer on your camera to capture the image (this works best with a light background (such as the projector screen).  Bring the image of yourself into photoshop and follow the link below to the tutorial starring Mr. Kimble to create your silhouette.
http://mrkimble.weebly.com/refining-mask-silhouette-turorial.html

2. Take an image of another person or an interesting object to apply the silhouette tutorial to.

3. Using the camera, capture a person or object utilizing backlighting to create a silhouette.  The silhouette can be a full black color, or it can show some detail of the person or object with the majority of the subject dark.

To accomplish #3, if you were trying to capture a silhouette of a building, it is important to direct your camera to expose for the sky and not the building.  This can be done manually or by pointing your camera at the lightest part of the image (sky) and holding the shutter button down halfway.  Then pan back to crop the scene as you want it to look while keeping the shutter button pressed down halfway.  Then click.

If the lightest part of the image is properly exposed, it makes any object in shadow appear completely black: and there's your silhouette.  When editing the picture before turning it in you can play with contrast and exposure in Photoshop to make sure you are achieving a rich black.

4.  Look at David Allen Reeves' tumblr page:  http://davidallenreeves.tumblr.com/

You will need to create an image in the likeness of a David Allen Reeves silhouette.  This can be achieved with cut paper, or action figures posed to create an interesting scene (don't forget to utilize depth of field when you shoot).  

Upload all 4 images to your blog for grading.

DUE:  May 3rd

Rubric:

Double Exposure Images

Creating a Double Exposure Image in Photoshop



Article on in-camera Double Exposure:
https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-take-unique-double-exposures-without-using-photoshop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalPhotographySchool+%28Digital+Photography+School%29

To create a double exposure in-camera with our Nikon cameras, you will need to shoot those photos in RAW.

So what exactly is a double exposure?


A simple photographic effect where one picture is superimposed over another.


It sounds like a mistake from the days of film…


Double exposures used to be an occupational hazard when using film cameras. A dodgy loading system or a careless photographer would often lead to two exposures accidentally being made on the same piece of film. But the artistic benefits of combining images were soon discovered by photographers such as Sarah Moon.


We will learn about double exposures in the camera, but for this assignment we will be taking two separate images and combining them in photoshop using the following tutorial(s) as guides to your composition:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4cPccIdfc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYfC22hj_us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMMOnwCP4Ik



Criteria:

You will take RAW photos with the camera and create a double exposure image in-camera.  We will go through how to achieve this in class.  Once you have one made in the camera, upload a creative double exposure image to your blog.

You will also need make two different double exposure images in photoshop, using two different people (one can be yourself). The portrait-type images of the people will work better if they are of the shoulders and up. Also, if the person is looking off-camera or in profile, those will work best.

You will then decide what scene to combine with the portraits. These can be landscapes/nature, cityscapes, a photo of the same person but in a certain environment so the person is smaller, etc.

RUBRIC:

DUE: April 15th