Theo's Photography Blog

Surrealism: For this photo I decided to show Marcel skateboarding very fast down a seemingly flat road. I did this by taking his photo, duplicating him, and adding blur. For this photo, I decided to manipulate Marcel using a copy tool which allows me to replicate a section of the photo in a different area. Obviously, people do not look like this which is why it is surreal.

Surrealism: Surrealism is an art movement which began in the early 1920's. Surrealist pieces of art are "dreamlike" and are expressions of pure creativity and show "the potential of the unconscious mind". Some popular artists which began working in surrealism include Frida Kahlo, Andre Breton, and Vladimir Kush. -Vladimir Kush, Full Steam Ahead -Salvador Dali, Elephants Surrealist Photography -Philippe Halsman - Dali Atomicus, 1948 Philippe Halsman was an American portrait photographer influenced by surrealist paintings. He decided to take the surrealist art movement and incorporate it into his photos. As you can see in the photograph above, his pieces often involved levitating objects. Stone Part One - Tommy Ingberg Tommy Ingberg is a surrealist photographer. He makes his pieces with a mix of photography and digital editing, which creates the surreal effect.

Gumoils The Gumoil process was developed in 1990 by printmaker/photographer Karl Koenig. The Gumoil process uses sensitizing gum arabic mix and oil paint, creating a "handmade photograph". The process begins with a positive on transparent film. The positive is placed in contact with uncolored gum bichromate which creates a negative gum bichromate print. This gum acts as a layer to resist oil paints, which are applied to the print after the gum has fully dried and hardened. Once paint is applied, it is allowed to sit on the print for several minutes before being removed. The paint will have soaked into the photo differently in different areas, depending on the hardness of the gum. In areas where the gum was very dry and hard, the paint will leave a lighter mark while areas with little to no gum allowed the paint to reach the print. The print is then soaked in water and some of the gum is cleaned off, exposing areas of the print underneath. Paint oils are applied...

Daguerrotype: Cyanotype

Panorama:   HDR: Multiple Exposures: