Digital Photography & Imaging: Project 2B (Cyborg)

Seerat Tayyab Mukhtar Qureshi - 0345576 (BDCM)

Digital Photography & Imaging

Project 2B: Cyborg

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Instructions:

We had to turn ourselves into a cyborg for this project. I started off by brainstorming some ideas.

Fig 1.1: Brainstorm

Mr. Martin liked the idea so then I went ahead and took a few pictures of myself. 

Fig 1.2: My pictures

Mr. Martin gave us tutorials to help us in doing this project. We followed along with him. The first one was to add an artificial limb and skin to a woman. 

Fig 1.3: Original pictures

Fig 1.4: My work after following Mr. Martin's tutorial 

In his next practical, we did another practice of artificial skin. 

Fig 1.5: Original pictures

Fig 1.6: Final work after following Mr. Martin's tutorial.

Next step was to work on our own cyborgs so I started looking for some visual inspiration and images I could incorporate into my work.

Fig 1.7: Some useful references I found on Pinterest

I then looked for some pictures of wires that I could use for my work since my composition was that wires would be coming out of my hands.

Fig 1.8: Wiring pictures I found on Pinterest

I made an attempt at combining all these together.

Fig 1.9: First attempt

After showing this to Mr. Martin, he said the quality of the picture was not the best and I should try and retake it. 

Fig 2.0: Second attempt at pictures

I opened my file on photoshop and started adding all the effects.

Fig 2.1: Layers

I adjusted the hue/saturation to exaggerate the blue tones of the picture to emphasise the AI environment. I also used the bevel and emboss feature that we learnt in class to create the fake skin

Fig 1.3: Final work, JPEG

Feedback: Mr. Martin said my idea was good I just need to execute it better and change the design of my lines needed a bit of work. After I changed my picture he said that the new one was better and the quality was much better too.

Reflection: I think I was quite well prepared for this project because Mr. Martin has shown us many tutorials in class on how we can achieve various different cyborg effects. I enjoyed doing this because there was quite a bit of creative freedom so we were able to do what we wanted and manipulate it in any way we want.