Digital Photography & Imaging - Week 5

22/10/2025 (Week 5)

LEXANDRA FEODORA STEFANO/0384629

Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelors of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

Task 5

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JUMPLINKS

1. LECTURE

2. INSTRUCTIONS

3. TASK

4. REFLECTION

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LECTURE

Double Exposure & Image Blending Mode

Double exposure photography refers to merging multiple images. The goal is to make them surreal, emotional, or humorous. It can be achieved by: 

• Using the tilt-shift effect 
• Create fake reflection
• Experiment with simple portraits and details textured
• Convert the results to black and white
• Work with silhouette
• Pick 2 random photos
• Make simple objects look fascinating
• Use shadow

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INSTRUCTIONS

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I9YGvnUDZ6O57Ng5oNR1gAx1N6NPK6W6/view?usp=drive_link 

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TASK

In this task, there are 2 exercises for double exposure. The first one is creating a double exposure from the images given in the google drive. I downloaded the images and started following the tutorial given in google classroom. First, I selected the person in the image and using the overlay, I fixed a couple of spots that were not detected. I edited a couple parts of the picture and make adjustments like the video tutorial. Then I imported the forest image and clipped in on the base layer (the person). After that, I added the rest of the details (clouds, birds, etc). When making it, I realized that the gradient map colour on the video was not available on my photoshop, so I decided to use a different gradient map colour. Here is the result for the first exercise. 

Fig 1.1.1 Layers (23/10/2025)

Fig 1.1.2 Double Exposure 1 (23/10/2025)

For the second exercise, we were told to make a double exposure image using our own photo. Here is the photo that I used. 

Fig 1.2.1 My Photo (26/10/2025)

First I removed the background on Photoshop and followed the previous steps. I also added a new picture for the double exposure, which is a waterfall. Then, I edited the image so it looks like the previous work. Here is the result. 

Fig 1.2.2 Layers (26/10/2025)

Fig 1.2.3 Double Exposure 2 (26/10/2025)

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REFLECTION

Even though I have seen a lot of double exposure works, I have never made one myself. I must say, that this task was very challenging and the tutorial video given was too fast, so I was confused at first. But I managed to make the double exposure pretty well for a first timer. Even though I managed to make my own double exposure using my own photo, I still need to improve on this task because I'm not to proud of the results. I will need to learn more about the tools used for double exposure.