Pathways

Digital Surrealism Written Statement

In my Digital Surrealism work titled “Pathways“, I used a background of mountains, a hand and one of my models, walking on the hand. The pathways of the mountain were suppose to blend in with the lines on the hand. The meaning of my work is “Don’t let other people choose your path in life.” To represent that meaning even more, I had my model walk on the hand representing the path that she is choosing to go on.

To start off “Pathways”, I wanted t do something about being yourself, so I began to sketch some ideas and I came up with the pathways idea. After planning, I took a picture of my model walking with her back facing the camera. Next, I took a picture of her hand with the lines of her hand as the main focus of the picture. Then I used the quick selection tool to crop out just my model and I added her to the mountain photo. The next step, was to cut out the hand and also put it in the mountain photo. I lowered the opacity for both the hand and the model to show a fading effect to my work. To finish off my work, I played around with the contrast, brightness and curves of the photo.

Some things I learned throughout making “Pathways” were how to control the flash of the camera while it takes pictures and to focus the camera to get a cleaner, professional photo. In Photoshop, I learned some easier ways to cut something out a photo and place it to a different photo. In the end, I am very satisfied with my work and I feel like I took everything I learned this semester and applied it to my final culminating assignment.


~Miss Awesome <3

Mountain Photo Credits: Carlos Varela



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