images from surreal digital photography
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Dipped Blue Bananas
Dipped Blue Bananas
I remember lying on a beach somewhere, contemplating on the deep blue of the ocean and thought wouldn't it be wonderful if you could scoop up a handful of ocean and see it as the blue liquid that it appears to be. And it was that thought that gave me the inspiration to create an image of what it might look like if the ocean was actually made of blue liquid. I dont think it gets much more surreal than that.
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Storm in a Teacup
Storm in a Teacup
Cliches featured heavily throughout the book, so I make no apology for this one. But I do like the literal interpretation of many of our best loved cliches. It allows us to hear them afresh in a whole new light.
The image of the teacup filled with tea was the basis for this chapter and a selection of the white water in the canoe image served nicely to generate the turbulent Earl Grey waters. The clouds and some lightning were commandeered from different images and a bit of nifty work with layer masks and fake shadows completed the scene.
surreal digital photography
Published by Ilex Press - 192 pages
Printed in English, German, Russian, Czech, Latvian, and Chinese (simplified)
The flexibility and endless possibilities of digital photography make the medium ideally suited to surreal photography. Using Adobe Photoshop, photographs can be editied, recoloured and rearranged in any way you can imagine. With a digital camera, home computer and image-editing software, there is simply no limit to what you can achieve. Surreal Digital Photography is a stunning showcase of the new breed of digital photographic art. Packed with tutorials and brilliant examples, it is a journey into the realms of the cutting edge of artistic digital photography.
The following image is taken from the chapter on "playing with scale"
The challenge of combining a real car with the monopoly board game seemed relatively straight forward at first glance. But I wanted to take it a step further and make it more difficult by positioning the car in such a way that would reflect the monopoly cards and the dice if it were a real scene. This required the original street reflections to be removed first of course.
I felt quite pleased with the final composition. In these days of photo-montage overkill, where it is often accomplished in not the most discerning manner, I was happy to be given the opportunity to demonstrate that there is still room for a well executed montage that tricks the eye. Well for a few seconds at least.