Surrealism

In non-cooking news (that's the study portion of this blog, after all!), I was assigned to work on creating a surreal image for my Media Design class. I originally created the image on the bottom right, but my professor suggested cropping the photo for a more balanced image (left). It definitely makes the image stronger. 

I really like surrealism, so getting the opportunity to create a surreal image was enjoyable. To complete this assignment, I used Photoshop.  I used a photo I took while driving cross country as the background. There was a huge lightening storm and I captured a lightening bolt. I then used the polygonal lasso to "grab" my fiance and our puppy from a picture I took for the original photo assignment and moved them into the background image. I wanted them to look like they were floating, so I also copied over their shadow as a layer. I wanted the picture to look spookier, so I rendered some clouds and adjusted the levels a bit. Then, I was enjoying the assignment, so I decided to take a shot of my fingers that I took from the original photo shoot and put them into the picture for more emphasis on scale and proportion. I like that it looks like the image I created is one photograph and that I am trying to "grab" them from the outside.