Assignment 1_Photo Manipulation Assignment

Assignment 1_Photo Manipulation Assignment

This is an Assignment 1 for Photography:Shooting the Truth.

The image I manipulated is the following:
“imaginary creature” by SungKu Lee

Blog address:  http://sungkulee12.blogspot.ca

 Friday October 5, 2012

Rough sketch 

Original Illustration

Original pictures

                                                     Final Image “imaginary creature”

The program used for the Assignment Photo Manipulation Assignment that requires creating a new image by changing and manipulating the existing images is Adobe Photoshop. One of the images that I used for this project is one of the drawings of mine. I thought it would be an interesting approach to use both real-life photo and a drawing and I came up with a unique image expressing surrealism. 

In this work, I was inspired byJulien Pacaud who is a french artist and illustrator, currently living in Le Mans, France. Before becoming an illustrator, he was, by turns : an astrophysician, an international snooker player, a hypnotist and an esperanto teacher. He hopes he can someday have enough free time to devote himself to his real passion : time travel. he is good at bring illustration and photo together in a one. The theme of the image is ‘imaginary creature’. I expressed the appearance of a surreal but beautiful creature in a realistic scenery because i like to do imagination of unrealistic creatures such as Unicorn, Phoenix and Nessie etc that is one’s childhood memories sticking in one’s mind.

First, I sketched and composed the entire image using a pencil on paper that improved the efficiency of my work. Then, I sketched the figure of a fish. In order to make it look surrealistic and fantastic, I used various and vivid colours. Moreover, the fish’s feature has distinct figure for creativity. the illustration used colour pencils, markers, and water colours on the paper. Next, I need the images of Harbour front. One of image is daytime of the Harbour front and the other one is sunset scenery. The daytime picture describe clear view of the Harbour front and the sunset image like sunset sky feel warm and comforting. Lastly, I collected all images. After that I manipulated, cropped, changed HSI(Hue, Saturation, Intensity) of the images by Adobe Photoshop.

In this project, I was having trouble to emphasis the reality of the final image because it is difficult to combine illustration and photo for expressing reality. Nevertheless, I was taking pleasure in process with imagination such as appearing the imaginary creature at Ontario lake. Moreover, I wish the work has given pleasure to people. During this project I learned many things such as combining photographs, taking a photograph, and painting a illustration. It was a salutary experience.