The Final Results:
This photo consists of three pictures- a picture of Portland, my mom holding an umbrella, and the moon. First I gave the picture of Portland a negative look to create a bizarre background. Next, I cropped out the background in the picture of my mom by using the magnetic lasso tool. I then moved the cropped picture onto the background and used a layer mask to shape up the sides. Next, I used the magnetic lasso tool to crop out the background of the moon photo (which wasn't hard, as the moon looks almost perfectly round). Next, I duplicated the picture of my mom, scaled some of them down to different sizes and arranged them in different places of the sky.
I didn't really have a specific kind of look I wanted to create with this image. I brought in random pictures I took, cropped them and arranged them on a background... I am pleasantly surprised how this turned out. The background image is a slow shutter speed photo of clouds at night, which creates a blurred, dream-like look. I then added a gradient, which creates a purple, yellow, blue, and orange color scheme. I showed this photo to my Dad and he said it reminds him of Peter Max's work.
I created this photo with more of a focus on photo montage than surrealism. The background is a portrait of Eli against a cool, green colored wall. To give this photo something more, I took a picture of paint strokes on a wall to create a texture. Other objects in this picture include a hand full of pedals and Eli reading a book, which seem to lead to his face, making this photo more dramatic.
