Assessment Two Task VPA104 Surrealism (Colour)

Task

You are required to create three (3) colour (RGB) images that make maximum use of a canvas 1600 pixels x 1200 pixels in either landscape or portrait format.
For this assignment, you can use your own photographs or you can use other photographs sourced from the Internet or books. The images you use must be photographs. They cannot be photos of paintings, etchings etc. You must use a minimum of FOUR different elements from different photos for each image you create.

The aim is to work in a surreal style. Your images have to be optically correct but present a photographic impossibility with an emphasis on the imaginary. Do not use Photoshop filters/effects to the images, instead rely on the intrinsic quality of the images themselves to convey the surrealist theme.

This task is not about your fantasy but more concerned with surrealism and therefore the Unconscious. So avoid subjects like fairies and gothic images that are highly constructed and stylized by a fashion and current trends. Also the term surreal is used very loosely and incorrectly these days and thrown
about to describe otherwise ordinary and possible scenarios. As an example, it is not a surreal situation to have a subject dressed up in an obvious costume or mask etc, or to have any scenario that could be easily staged/set-up.

What you submit for Assessment 3 includes:

1. Three images to the specified requirements above and SAVED AS highest quality .JPEGS. (Choose File > Save As).
2. A brief description or title for each image with mention of those photographers/artists whose work has inspired your own (around 50 - 100 words per image).
3. Include thumbnails as well as correct details and links to all the original sourced images.
4. Also as in previous occasions include details of your Photoshop techniques as well.

NOTE:

1. All images to be used in this subject are to be Photographs.
2. No use of filters/special 'effects' in Photoshop (or other image manipulation software).

Rationale

In this assignment, you will be able to expand and explore your skills in digital photographic imaging using your own or appropriated images to think in the surrealist mode. You can download good quality images from the internet and/or incorporate elements from photos you have taken yourself using a
DSLR camera.

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Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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