Below are the photos I took over the first photoshoot day with Tommy. I took a few photos with the intention of montaging them together with landscape photography, and some as there own photograph. I started the photoshoot with some portraits of Tommy, with a focus on the eye as its a common theme in surrealism, then I went to taking photos of hands and they are often associated with the conscious mind as the unconscious usually cannot process hands. Finally, I went to taking some Images of skulls as I may use them later to add to my landscape photos.
Here I took inspiration from one of Man Ray’s famous portraits called Noire et Blanche (1926). Bellow is an edited version try try replicate the same ‘brown’ that’s in Man Ray’s image:
I kept my subjects eyes open as it means I can create a montage of images with my subject later on, all with a similar theme of the eye being in focus.
Surrealist painters and photographers often use eyes into their works to create a sense of mystery, depth and phycological exploration. It can also be used to evoke emotions and provoke thoughts. “eyes are the windows to a soul”. This is very true as a lot of emotion of a subject can be depicted from there eyes.
Above I told my subject to act like he was flying, while his belly was resting on a box. I used the same edit as the image above, and I also took the image to photoshop to try and remove the box, adding a real flying allusion. However, I found it difficult to remove the box so I opted on using the remove tool in photoshop.
Here I added two images together with different opacities to create this transformation through time, when the subject has his hands down and his hands up. I also see this kind of image very often when I’m looking for inspiration for a surrealism photograph.
Above I used the same two sets of images as before, but cut out the eyes. This has created a very eerie looking image as the viewer cannot escape the eye.
Photoshoot 4
Here I Tried to use the same method as before, but with a different subject and using reflections, I will now try to edit is arm out so I confuses the viewer.
Here I tried replicating an Image I saw while looking for inspiration of Surrealism.
