More examples

Following are a few more examples of surreal images that I have found and that I also got inspired tv to make similar photographs. The first photograph is called 'who am I?' And if I only look at the photograph, I wouldn't really be able to tell what it is about. Especially that it's about someone looking for their identity. I would gues a lot of things but not that. I'm pointing this out because I think a title can give a whole new story to a photograph. This is the reason why I will try to give my images a title as well. 

Red Trauma is the image in the bath and the lady in red. I really like it because it tell how important angles are in an image. They can make something look totally different than what it actually is. It also reminds me of a photograph that I saw ages ago in a Tom Hunter exhibition. It was of a dead lady hanging on a ironing board and I looked at it several times because I didn't really understand how. Than one tiny detail of the photograph revealed that it was actually upside down and she was just sitting on the floor. 

Ronan Goldman

This is a Manhattan has recreated his own dreams into photographs. I can't really do what he did because I usually don't even remember my own dreams but I will be doing this with the people i have asked to tell me their dreams. I really like how one image on it own tells the whole story of the dream. 

Kevin Wilson

This is another photographer that has inspired me and helped me thinking more about what I want to do. He made normal buildings look creepy scary by using effects after taking the images. It is useful because a lot of times in dreams you see familiar areas or houses that look a bit different and scary, not how they usually are in real life. I think those effects can be achieved by just making HDR's. 

Laura Williams

This is another photographer that I found very interesting because she has made optical illusions and they can make a person look invisible from one side. I think that technique with the mirror can be quite useful for my work to give an extra creepy look to the nightmares. 

Zev Hoover

Another reason why I have also researched surreal photographers is because dreams have inspired a lot of surrealistic photographers. 

Next is another technique that I would want to try out while shooting my photographs and that can also usually be seen in dreams. It is called forced perspective and it can make objects look smaller or bigger than they actually are and sometime it also makes the viewer look twice because it looks odd. 

Next are a few more examples of this technique but they are not taken by Zev Hoover

Rachel Koseica

This photographer has actually used a lot of photoshop in her images. I have put her in my research because I wanted to try out the effect of someone flying. I will do that by combining two photographs that I will take on the same location using a tripod. I will take one photograph of the location alone and than one of a person standing on something that I will get rid off later on in photoshop. 

Tami bone

This is another example by Tami Bone and he has taken normal simple photographs and he's given them a 'dreamy feel'. He changed them into black and white and he's made them blurry which actually does give an effect of a dream. I will try to produce something like that as well for my project. 

I have researched very different kinds of photographs just because I want to try out different techniques for this project but they will all have the same them of being a dream. 

Gregory Crewdson

I have looked at this photographer as well because instead of just researching photographers that have photographed dreams, I have also looked into surrealistic photographers. This is one of them and I like his work because of the fact that the photographs are really simple and it's amazing how one little aspect or detail of a photographs can make the whole thing look weird/creepy. I am inspired by his work because I like that there is not too much going on in the frames and that makes it easy for the viewer to know where to focus is meant to be. 

Joshua Hoffine

In one of my previous posts I had already mentioned that I wanted to base my project on dreams. The problem was that I started all my shooting already before doing any research into other photographs that shot dreams. That was a disadvantage for me because what I shot didn't really look like a dream and I did not have a proper plan of what the narrative behind it would be. This is the reason why I have decided to now do all my research first than when I exactly know hat I am doing I will start shooting my project. 

I started off with asking a round people about their dreams. Especially kids because I thought their dreams were more interesting. I thought that was a good idea to start with because it gave me a better idea what to do. 

After that research I started looking at different existing photographers and I found Joshua Hoffine. I thought it was really amazing how he actually already recreated dreams of children. Every photograph has it's own story. He recreated childhood nightmares into photographs. I really liked his work so I decided to do stills as well. 

Following are a few examples of his work. 

Change of idea

My original plan was to create a video that would show a dream of so one but I have decided to change my idea because I think making stills will be better for me for this particular project. I have decided to produce stills. I will be asking people about their dreams and especially nightmares. I will recreate those into one photograph. I was already into narrative photography which is why I want to challenge myself this time a try to tell a whole story in one image instead of a series of images. I will be producing different photographs using different techniques.