Surrealism photography skills

1. Character ratio

The proportion of characters is common in surrealist photography, and its main significance is to enlarge or narrow the infinite exaggeration of characters. That is to say, dreams that do not exist in reality are the mainstay, and the so-called surrealism is difficult to express clearly under the shooting of intuitive lens, which shows how important post-processing is. Such as common scenes in life, such as Woods, fires, lawns, etc. Focus on one point in the scene and blur other scenes as much as possible, then focus on placing a character and reducing it to the size of a worm. This is why you will find that the surrounding scenery has become mountains and rivers, and the remaining work is to reflect the relationship between characters and scenery. For example, people who live by the fire and fly with leaves. However, it should be noted that the blur adjustment of the background is very important. If the fuzzy background is not handled well, the integrity of the whole work will be greatly reduced. In addition, the angle of the camera is best not to shoot from the front, which will affect the shooting effect.

2. Gravity weightlessness

As mentioned above, surrealism is divorced from reality, and the method of "gravity weightlessness" is appropriate. For example, the debris caused by the cup falling on the ground, if you take multiple photos with a delay, and then frame the whole photo upside down, the object will float, which is the performance of gravity weightlessness, and people can also take photos upside down, which will also have such an effect. Of course, if you are creative enough, you can stand on the roof and take a picture of the city, and then look at it the other way around, there will be a scene like Inception, but it is a huge workload and requires patience.

3. The lens is exposed for a long time

In fact, long exposure shooting is not a surreal shooting method, but the clever combination of the two is different. In the past, overexposure meant putting the lens in a starry sky and rainbow scene for several hours, but after shooting, if you superimpose a photo with a relatively short focal length, you will find that the scene becomes more exciting, for example, abandoning a handful of sand for a long exposure, and then shooting a still human figure. When the two are put together, there will be a strange scene in which sand turns into people's clothes. Not only that, for photographers, water droplets are also good photographic materials. For example, if you stand in the rain and shoot with a long exposure lens, and then turn the characters upside down with ps, the characters under the long lens will appear to fly in the sky, and raindrops will fall in the opposite direction, forming an illusion.

Fall into thinking

Getting into thinking is often a relatively high-end shooting technique for shooting surreal works. Many photographers sometimes shoot a still life, such as a stone or a chair, and then there is nothing. The surrounding environment is bright or dark, sometimes there are many windows and weeds. In fact, it's nothing, but this photo has endless connotations, mainly reflected in the names of master works. For example, the scene of a stone is called freedom, so many people who have seen it will cause a series of thoughts: Why does the stone represent freedom? What is the connection between freedom and stone and the meaning of the author? What event does the existence of stone mean? This series of questions will flood into my mind, but this kind of thinking may not have a result, but the focus is on the process of thinking. What is high is a picture that makes people think, and the result of thinking is progress. If you are interested in listening to this, pick up the camera and take a picture. Maybe you can get new inspiration from this shooting method!