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Scroll down below to see some selections of my work from this unit.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World- Movie Poster Redesign

For this project we recreated posters from famous movies starring ourselves and our classmates! We designed these as high quality documents using the full size billboard layouts. We had to create every element ourselves and could only import limited credited assets, so every layer of this design was something I shot or brought together featuring me as Scott Pilgrim!

Watercolor Effect

For this project we made our own watercolor art that we scanned in as high resolution layers. From there, we used Photoshop to mask and layer these paintings with photographs, making our own fusion of handmade and digital art! Additionally, I wrote a poem using digital poetry magnets and masked that in as well.

Make It Move- Photoshop GIF Animation

To preview our upcoming studies in graphics and animation, we made GIF sequences in Photoshop using some photography and other graphics. Photoshop is perfect for making GIFs and cinemagraphs since you can create them like a video using a timeline!

Double Exposure Effect

For this project we used Photoshop to emulate a classic photography effect that came from vintage film photography when two images were shot on the same frame, using opacity to blend them. I combined an original portrait with a texture macro shot to create this manipulation!

Attack of the Clones

This was our first project in a “Photoshop Magic” series learning about photo manipulation. This effect was aimed at making “clones” of ourselves through photography and photo manipulation using layering and masking. I made four clones of myself in this edit!

Extrospection- Portraits On Location

After lots of practice doing portraits in the studio and outdoors, this project allowed us to shoot three or more portraits of two or more subjects in any location, style, and mood of our choosing. The most important elements of this shoot was to capture a sensitive depth of field, edit with portrait retouching techniques, and showcase our subjects in their best light!

Layers on Layers- Collage

This was our first project in Adobe Photoshop to learn about masking and layering. Using selection and masking techniques, we created our own collages with dozens of photos. My collage is all about hope and loss, love and war.

Studio Lighting Demos

As we started to learn about portraits and studio lighting, we did some experiments in teams to demo the lights, gels, and angles. I shot these with Felix and Aidan.

Portrait Studio Lighting Compositions

For this project I worked with Aidan to shoot four traditional lighting setups, including the butterfly (an intense single light above our subject), a 45/Rembrandt (lighting from a 45 degree angle to cast shadows on our subjects face), a split (intense light from 90 degrees), a split with fill, and a final experimental lighting shot. These are our products!

Painting with Time- Light Painting Demonstrations

For this project, we worked with teams in a pitch black dark auditorium room to do some light painting. Using tripods and shutter speeds as slow as 20+ seconds, we created these light paintings by hand without any Photoshop or added effects.