Digital Surrealism
“How do I create a photographic art piece, in the surrealist style that has a meaningful message?”
In my surreal photograph the surrealist elements are all in the person of the photo. Just by simply enlarging the person puts a surreal twist on things. The way I created this art piece is by taking my layers in Photoshop and putting masks, lassoing the object that I want to focus on and at the end blending all my layers. If you noticed the colors in this piece really stand out. The blue doors really stand out against the brick walls. In this art piece your eyes don’t really travel around the page, I think your eyes would just go straight to the main focus.
This photomontage has a certain message that is trying to be said. This message is that the person is so big and he’s in such a small space, this is trying to say that he doesn’t have enough freedom. Kids in this period of time have freedom but very limited freedom especially in Canada. In place like East Asia kids have no freedom and are forced to work and they only get paid a 1 a day. To me, I think that this is a message that hasn’t been looked over enough. Just let us kids be kids.
Now I’m going to recognize my flaws in my work. This concept idea could have been executed much better if I just used my time more wisely. This photomontage would have look way better if I was more precise and even if I took more and different photos. And if I have an assignment similar to this in the future I will definitely apply these things to my finished work. In my eyes I was lazy and didn’t do work.
