I need advice fellow photographers

8 years 11 months ago #437338 by Ninjabiscuit90
Hey guys,
Alright, this is the only place that I know of linked via viewbug to a type of forum to talk to other photographers. And thats just what I need, 
I'm currently enrolled in college and we're approaching our final project which is pretty much "Pick what you want to do" without any sort of guidelines. After spending a lot of time thinking about what I want to do, I finally came up with something! I'm a person who likes to challenge myself a lot, I want to improve because I still only count myself as an Amateur Photographer. I want attempt doing Surreal Photos.  I just want to know if anyone on here has any advice going about shooting, I feel once I get the shots down I can properly create the photos I want through photoshop as I've read some tutorials on them, but I never found any advice on actually shooting them. I feel the true challenge of making a surreal photo is actually taking a proper photos and making sure they're believable. 

I appreciate any tips that are given! And thank you in advance!


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8 years 11 months ago - 8 years 11 months ago #437349 by icepics
You might want to look up photographers/artists who did work in surrealism like Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray (his photograms which he called Rayographs), and Herbert Bayer.

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/upload/BayerCatlge_Final-2.pdf (photos on p.6)
http://moholy-nagy.org/art/photograms/

You might try looking up scenes from movies like Orson Welles' 'The Lady from Shanghai', the mirror scene near the end of the film; and Hitchcock's 'Spellbound' dream sequence done by Salvador Dali.  

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