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Double Exposure

This Double Exposure project is one that I like to give students early in the semester because it really gets them hooked on Digital Photography.  Even for the ones that are struggling, the results are very satisfying and it gives them the confidence to delve deeper into the possibilities of photo manipulation.

I've put together a short video demos on how to do this in both GIMP and SumoPaint.  It can also be easily done in PhotoShop, but we stick with free software at my school due to a small budget.

Student project examples:







See more examples of student work from the Double Exposure project here. 

Digital Photography -- Sunflowers


In this project, Digital Photography students will all given the same image of sunflowers and they had 15 minutes to manipulate the photo in any way using the photo editing and manipulation skills they had learned. The results are diverse in style and technique.

I also tied in a lesson on image appropriation.  The sunflower image was an photograph that as available for use and editing under the Creative Commons License. We talked about the different types of license and how to determine if and how an image can be used.

This is a great lesson to use at the midpoint of a course to check student understanding.  I also find that critiques are very productive, because students can share the different tools and techniques they have used, and it allows for my more advanced students to teach their classmates.  

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Digital Photography - Double Exposure



For this project, students used the software GIMP to create a double-exposure by combining two or more images.  This technique works best with a photograph with a white or transparent background.  Students learned how to remove backgrounds from their photographs and layer their images to create this effect.

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