Surrealistic Theme

For my surreal picture I would like to do a picture of myself, and my face kind of being pixilated out on one side. I would also like some flowers to be coming through my face as its being cracked or pixilated. I will have to take a few picture of my face and will most likely take my own pictures of flowers, if not I will get some images from the internet. I will take the pictures outside so that there will be some natural light on my face to make it look a lot more realistic.

Surreal Artist Comparison

                Tommy Ingberg is a surrealism photographer, born 1980 in Sweden. As a child he was always into art. He had a sketchbook he would draw in and always had a fascination with cameras. His first camera was a Praktica with two lenses.  Ever since then he has been photographing. He was always a good student and got good grades, it was the social aspect of school that gave him a hard time. To this day he says he still deals with those issues.  He went onto college to study for a degree in computer science. After graduating from college as a computer engineer and years went by, he realized that something was missing in his life. He was still photographing as a hobby but he found that art was a sort of therapy for him and helped him. So he started to do it more often, just for himself. He didn’t care what others thought because everything he did was for himself.

                Vladimir Kush is a surrealism artist. He was born in Russia, in a one story wooden house near the Moscow forest park Sokolniki. He started art at the young age of seven. There was an art school he attended until late evening where he was exposed to all different types of art and artist. When he was 17 he went to the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School, but just a year later he was drafted. After six months of training, the unit commander realized it was more appropriate to have him exclusively for peaceful purposes, like painting propagandistic posters. In 1987 he started to be apart of exhibitions organized by the Union of Artists. Soon he went to Los Angeles where he worked in a small home garage that he rented, but couldn’t find a place to display his paintings. Finally in 1993, a dealer from France noticed his work and organized and exhibition in Hong Kong for him. It was extremely successful and opened many other exhibitions for him. In 2001 he opened his first gallery, Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Artist Name: Tommy Ingberg

Title: Torn

Date: 2011

Description: There is a man being held down by a rock but brought up by balloons.

Analysis: Just like all of Ingbergs other pictures, this one is in a sort of black and white. There are bright clouds in the background that do highlight the picture. As you can see the person head was removed as well and balloons were put in. To the left there is some shadows that darken up the clouds.

Interpretation: I feel like this picture is trying to describe when there is something that is bringing you up and going good in your life, but at the same time there is something not so good, bringing you down in some way so you end up not really going anywhere.

Judgement: I think this piece was extremely successful and I think that a lot of people can relate to it as well. Everyone goes through something similar to this at least some point in their life.

Artist Name: Vladimir Kush

Title: Pearl

Date: 2001

Description: There are two people holding open this clam showing the brightened pearl.

Analysis: This is a very colorful oil painting. Some might see the pearl as being the sun of the sky and it happens to be in the middle of the pearl, but others could see it as the pearl being the thing that is highlighting the entire picture.

Interpretation: I see this picture as the “pearl” actually being the sun just because the whole picture is lit up.

Judgement:  I really like this painting; I think it’s so pretty. All the colors that were used go very well together.

                Both of these pictures are surrealism, similar but different in many ways. The first picture is a photo and the second photo is a painting. With the photo there had to be some editing done, but with the painting it’s completely original, no editing involved. The painting also has a lot more colors then the first picture which makes it a little more appealing to the eye. Both of these artist have different styles and it shows.

Removing Head Tutorial

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Photowalk: Primary Colors

In this picture there is all three primary colors.

Here is a picture of a yellow shovel.

All three colors lined up.

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Adobe Photoshop Express

         As everyone knows, in photography class we use Adobe Photoshop. This app is so similar to it. It’s very nice and easy to understand. As well as having different filters to choose from, you can also edit the picture in many other ways like adjusting the exposure, contrast, and many more. Just like the program we use on our computers.
                                                                 

   The only downside to this app is that you can only use it to edit your pictures. It doesn’t let you work with your pictures until it is actually taken, unlike other apps where you can adjust things while you are in the camera mode. Other than that, this is a great app to use to make your pictures better.

                There are many different things that you can work with. Another thing you can do on this app is blemish and red eye fixes. You can’t do these types of things on Instagram. The only thing you can do on the app is add filters.  

              Just like the computer program as well, you can bounce back between the original image and the edited version that you are working on to see how good it looks since you started the edit.

                               Many might compare this app to Instagram but it turns out that this one is way better. On Instagram you can’t alter things like the exposure, shadow, and clarity. There is also a lot more choices of filters on this app but most times they aren’t needed because of all the other changes you can make to the picture.

               

               

The two pictures above are obviously the same picture but on has been edited by adjusting many different things.  In the first picture (the original) it’s really yellow because of the lighting in my room. The app gave me the option to change the temperature of the picture which allows you to make it more yellow or bluer. To cancel out the yellow tint in the picture I made it cooler to give it the blue color. In the end I feel my editing was pretty successful and the final product looks better than the original. 

David Hockney Inspired Collage

This collage is of Greta. I cropped about 15 different pictures I took at different angles and put them all together in this collage to make one picture.

Here is a picture of a view down my street. I took many different pictures of this as well so that I would be able to crop each one in different places and make this one.

Photowalk Depth of Feild

The focus is on my finger in this picture with Brenden in the back as well as Matt and Joe's shadows.

Partner Portraiture

Here is a picture of my dog, Greta, and Matt on top of her head putting his foot on her ear. I took a picture of Greta and had Matt take a picture with his foot on a chair. Then I put Matt's picture in Greta's picture and adjusted Matt's picture so it looks like its apart of the original dog picture.

Self Reflection

This is a reflection of me coming from the outside of my car.

I'd Rather Be

In this picture I am with some of the Victoria Secret angels on the carpet before an event. To get this picture the way it is now, I cropped my face out of one picture and placed it into this one. After that I just altered my face so that it would match the rest of the picture and look somewhat realistic.