Using digital photography and Photoshop (combining, manipulating, and editing your own photographs), make a strong, clear, simple visual statement, without words, that EXAGGERATES.
Medium:
Photo-editing and photo-collage in Photoshop (No Illustrator)
Objectives:
Digital Illustration
- Arrange and shoot high-quality photographs that are well focused, well exposed (Good range of tonal values and contrast; good color), and expressive.
- Develop skills with photo-editing in Photoshop.
- Stress a point through exaggeration of that feeling or concept.
Grading Criteria:
- Completion of all parts (Turn in brainstorm list and thumbnail sketches)
- Quality of Photographs -- Remember that all photos must be shot or arranged by you specifically for this project. (i.e. They must be new.).
- All photos are new and taken specifically for this project.
- The photographs are absolutely your own creation.
- Photographs are focused well and exposed well (good color, good tonal value, good contrast)
- Strength of Design / Composition
- Strength of Expressiveness of Feeling/Concept
- Technical Quality
- Personal Investment / Work Habits
PROCESS
Step 1: What’s your statement?
It should be a simple statement that can be used to sell an idea or a product.
Brainstorm/write down a list of possibilities — What can you do to express the different concepts?
Some possibilities:
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Step 2: How can you exaggerate the message visually?
Draw a series of (at least three) thumbnail sketches to develop your visual ideas and to compose the image.
Consider the following:
- Composition
- Color scheme
- Style
- Lighting
- Point of view
- Cropping
- Appearance of model(s) (subjects)
- Gesture
- Facial expression
- Environment / Surroundings (if any)
Step 3: What do you need to create this image?
Remember that all photos must be shot or arranged by you specifically for this project. (i.e. They must be new.).
Find props, enlist models, and find appropriate places to take your photographs.
- Models
- Props
- Environment
- Tools, materials, and techniques
Step 4: Plan and execute a series of photos potentially to be used in this composite image
Make sure your photographs are high resolution and are exposed well and focused well.
Step 5: Use Photoshop to create the digital illustration of your statement.
- In Photoshop, double-check resolution (Go to “Image - Image Size” -- Document Size should be 300 pixels/inch at printing size -- at least 8.5 inches x 11 inches).
- Use Photoshop to combine and edit your photographs into a unified image with a single, clearly expressed idea.
- Save your combined, photo-edited image as “extreme yourlastname”.
**The final image should be RGB color mode, 300 dpi, and at least letter size.**
Grading Criteria:
- Completion of all parts (Turn in brainstorm list and thumbnail sketches)
- Quality of Photographs
- All photos are new and taken specifically for this project.
- The photographs are absolutely your own creation.
- Photographs are focused well and exposed well (good color, good tonal value, good contrast)
- Strength of Design / Composition
- Strength of Expressiveness of Feeling/Concept
- Technical Quality
- Personal Investment / Work Habits