Surrealist Photo

For this project I had some trouble thinking of a really creative idea to work with. I don't think that it was the time allotted to complete it, I think that it was more so the timing. It seemed as if my brain just went into reserve mode or something when it cam down to this project, lol. Not sure if it was the pressure from finals week or just creative block. Anyhow, my original idea to create a surreal forest scene was changed to the following:

I was inspired to do this piece through the works of Tokohiro Satoh and Hiroshi Sugimoto. I love Tokohiro's use of subtle light in his images and Hiroshi's use of architecture. So I combined the two concepts together to create a surreal scene of a city occupied by these contrasting stick figures. I reaaly thought Tokohiro's leaping pair was interesting and i've always  admired the simplicity and interesting things you can do with drawing stick figures, so i incorporated this idea into the photo. 

Surrealist Artist

After reviewing the work from the list of Artists, the ones that I really like are Tokohiro Satoh, Olivia Parker, Rene Magritte and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

I really like Tokohiro's use of black and white, contrast and the artistic use of the lighting his photographs. His photographs were some of the best to me, just due to his concepts of taking these great photos of a scenery thats very calming and pleasant and adds these vivid hints of light.

Oliva Parker's work I find very subtle, yet abstract to some degree with her use of subjects.

I like her work because it isn't disturbing as some of the others and her eye for detail and texture with many of her photos.



Rene Magritte has a sense of humor with some of her photos. i really enjoy her use of color and the concepts for a lot of her surreal photos

Hiroshi Sugimoto seems to use a lot shapes and architectural scenes for his photos, which I like. I really think his use of shapes and the relationships between shapes are interesting.

My Panorama Photo

After working for some weeks on my panorama I decided to go with these compilation of images of the stairway in an underground parking structure on campus. I was often intrigued by the lighting the sun cast on them, from the darkest part of the bottom level to the lightest light as you climb the stairway to the most upper level. So what I did, is took several pictures with every step that I took starting on the ground level and climbing the stairs to the top level.

I really like the texture of the concrete and stairs, therefore I incorporated the pavement of space before the stairs. The white light was very intriguing to me and mysterious... symbolic and felt very spiritual, so to emphasize this I positioned the stairway at the bottom of the page and left a huge portion of white space at the top. I could have centered it but I really wanted to convey the idea of the white light at the top with hopes that it will touch people and get them to think as it did me. I could have also cut off the concrete space at the bottom by bringing it all the way to the end of the page and flatting it, but I really admired the movement of the roundness and how it pulls you up with the stairs.

I used adjustments such as cloning and healing to clean up some of the trash that was on the ground. I also adjusted the contrast and transformed the stairway to look continuous because the merge had flattened some areas.