Digital Photography & Imaging - Week 6

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Lecture
Our lecture for this week introduced us to poster design and the seven fundamental principles that come with it. Those principles being:

Emphasis:
- The main focus of what is being presented in the poster and what you want the viewer to focus on.

Balance and Alignment:
- The placement of elements in a piece so that it doesn't feel one-sided.

Contrast:
- The difference between elements in a design.
- The background should usually be completely different from the colours of your main elements in order to create a good contrast.

Repetition:
- Can sometimes be seen as a bad thing, however depending on what it is that you are portraying to the viewer, repetition can represent unification and overalls strengthen a design.
- If only one element has a unique colour, it can be seen as an error. But if multiple elements share the same colour, it can be seen as a motif.

Proportion:
- The visual size and weight of the elements in a composition and how they relate to one-another.
- Larger elements usually have more weight and importance in a composition.

Movement:
- The control over elements in a composition so that the viewer's eyes are led from one piece of information to the next in a way that is properly communicated to the audience.
- Movement can create the story or narrative of your work.

White Space / Negative Space:
- The area in a composition that doesn't feature any elements.
- Can be used to help focus the viewer's eyes onto other elements in a piece.


Tutorial
Our tutorial for this week was introducing us to the basics of photography. However because the last two weeks had holidays on Monday, we did not have time in class to go over these tutorials and instead had to push forward so that we could do our practical assignments. 


Practical
For our practical for this week we had to perform a recolouring exercise where we take a black and white image and reintroduce new colours onto the piece using colours that are selected from other sources. This exercise was split into two sections, Exercise 1 where we follow the instructions and recolour our given image, and Exercise 2 where we select our own image and search for resources to recolour the piece. 

For Exercise 2 I chose to recolour a black and white photo of Obama as it was the easiest option to choose form due to his lack of hair. Because my class was behind on work due two holidays, we had less time to work on our practicals since we had to catch up with the other classes.

Exercise 1 Recolour:


Exercise 2 Recolour:


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