Double Exposure

Portraits

Portraits are intended to tell about someone or something without using words. What do the following portraits tell us about their subjects? If you had to describe the subject with one word, what would it be?

Abstract images and landscapes can give a sense of emotion. What do you feel when looking at the followning images?

25 minutes: Go and take photos! 

No, really! Go and gete photos of your own 'environments' and pictures of yourself -- you will need both, but we will get into that later!

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Now what happens when we combine the two?

PRACTICE ASSIGNMENT: Find an online potrait and a natural/outdoors image to practice your double exposure with today. Follow the demo (and steps below) to create your own D. E. Portrait!

HOMEWORK: Take several photos tonight- various pictures of environments that tell me something about you and several pictures of yourself.  

Making the Double Exposure

1. Open editing software, create a canvas with the dimensions 7x10 inches, titled LastName_DE Practice

2. Pull in your portrait (the more interesting the perimeter line, the better!)

3. Erase out the background of your portrait and clean up the edges

4. Make the portrait black and white: IMAGE ->  Adjustments... -> Black & White -> OK

5. Increase the contrast of your portrait: IMAGE -> Adjustments... -> Levels... (you decide)

6. Pull your “nature/texture” image onto your portrait image and stretch it to fit in an interesting way

7. Make the "nature/texture" image black and white, then hide that layer

8. Switch to your portrait layer

9. Using a lasso tool, trace the edges of your portrait

10. Switch to your nature layer

11. Right click your mouse and Select "Inverse” (Ctrl Shift I) 

12. Erase in the inversely selected area

13.Change the layer blend mode to Pin Light or Hard Light (layer blend modes)

14. Merge your layers (SHIFT CTRL E)

15. Create a new layer underneath your portrait

16. Using the paint bucket tool, color your background a light gray color

        ** It is helpful to eyedropper the color from your portrait**

17. Choose your portrait layer

18. Change the layer opacity (between 50-70%, you decide)

19. Repeat steps 5-14 as necessary until you are happy with your result

20. Save as a JPEG

21. Upload the final JPEG onto your site on the page called "Double Exposure"