Surreal Photomontage

1. Surreal Photomontage
Combining photos together

2. What does Surreal Mean?
• Element of
surprise, unexpected
juxtapositions.
• Began around 1920’s
• Dream like
• Salvador Dali, Painter

3. The paintings of Rene Magritte
• Show us a world that cannot physically exist in real
space, yet do exist in the two dimensional visual
space of his work.

4. The Project:
1. The work should combine 2
to 5 images into a single image.
2. Should access the
surreal, things that can only
happen in a subconscious
reality.
3. How can you show us the
magic of photography to
transform reality into dream?
Create something that appears
real, but yet surely cannot be...

5. Be Imaginative

6. Examples from 2012 Graduate, Pamela Tuazon

7. Combining Nature with man-made
objects: Pattern and Textures

8. Now combined!
• *I cut out the pathway and door using lasso tool in photoshop

9. Frog (oraganic) combined with
cityscape (non-living)

10. Cut out individual pieces using define
layer mask or lasso tool.

11. People & Overlays

12. Subtle overlays
(adjust opacity in photoshop!)

13. You may combine more than 2 photos!

15. Push the Surreal Boundaries
By Jerry Uelsmann
Surreal Photomontage by Jim Kazanjian

16. Jerry Uelsmann

17. Jerry Uelsmann

18. Jerry Uelsmann

19. Photoshopped Magazine Ads

20. Less Obvious or More Obvious?

21. Videos!
• Blending mode in
Photoshop:
• http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=KNuQERoJQPA
• Cutting out photo &
overlaying:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=HN0PUdWcPKs&
feature=related

22. Now…for practice…outside
• Take 1 photo of a pattern
of inanimate/non-living
object (brick wall)
• Take 1 photo of living thing
(person, flowers, plants)
• We will be combining these
in photoshop for our warm
up today!