Coursework, Part 1 - The photograph as document, Project 5 - The manipulated image

Project 5 – Exercise – “The Real and the Digital”

Read the section entitled 'The Real and the Digital' in Wells, Liz. (2009) Photography: A Critical Introduction (4th edition). Abingdon: Routledge, pp.73-75. You'll find this on the student website. Does digital technology change how we see photography as truth? Consider both sides of the argument and make some notes in your learning log. Firstly, what… Continue reading Project 5 – Exercise – “The Real and the Digital”

Coursework, Part 1 - The photograph as document, Project 5 - The manipulated image

Project 5 – Exercise – Composite image

Instead of using double exposures or painting from double negatives we now have the technology available to use to make these changed in post-production, allowing for quite astonishing results. Use digital software such a Photoshop to create a composite image which visually appears to be a documentary photograph but which could never actually be. The… Continue reading Project 5 – Exercise – Composite image