I want the message for my Surreal Composition to be left up to the viewer’s interpretation. There are quite a few subject points that all connect back to the main subject, the eye. When we were first introduced to this project, I immediately thought of eyes as a way to express a dreamlike and surrealistic image. Sure enough, when we were looking through some of the examples, a lot of them had something to do with eyes. I loved how I could use the eye as the focal point and then had smaller things around it. For example, I included a solar system that fit perfectly over the eye, especially Jupiter because it aligned really well over the iris of the eye. Additionally, I included a juxtaposition of a man fishing for planets. This really added to the surrealist aspect of the project.
I found it helpful that we received insight on composting photos together to create a masterpiece through practice exercises beforehand, so we weren’t thrown into the deep end and expected to create something without having some knowledge about key concepts that would be helpful for us to produce this project. I also value that I had the knowledge of basic editing skills, from Design, so I could edit the photos to match the surrealistic vibe that we are going for. I mainly used the curves adjustment layer to add a darker pigment to the eye and vector masks over images to add or subtract details from the image.
I definitely like creating Realistic Compositions a lot better than Surreal Compositions. This was really out of my comfort zone and I struggled a lot with just where to start. There’s such a broad range of choices but at the same time also many restrictions that just got me stuck. Overall I’m really happy with how my Surreal Composition turned out, especially given that this was the first time I was working on a project like this.
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