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Sunday, September 21, 2014

ERIK JOHANSSON'S SURREAL PICTURES - Amazing results using raw materials and digital editing

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  • Erik Johansson has created a portfolio of stunning images combining photography, raw materials and digital editing
  • He takes hundreds of photographs for a single image and pulls them all together using Adobe Photoshop
  • The finished pictures show surreal and lifelike scenes which are a mix of fantasy and authentic natural landscapes

    • A second image using zips or scissors, called Cut & Fold, shows fields being peeled apart by a pair of painted scissors
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    Houses and trees in this arctic setting can be seen drifting apart in a polar sea in Breaking Up, which may be a reference to human relationships


    A photographer has created a portfolio of incredibly surreal images using a combination of raw materials, original photography and Adobe Photoshop alterations.
     
    Erik Johansson, originally from Sweden, claims to capture 'ideas' in his work. Whether using photographs and digital editing, or even paint and hand made cardboard models to re-create an imagined vision, his completed images look as though they are perfectly genuine photographs.
    The surreal Vertical Turn shows a man made path dropping vertically like a natural cliff face
     
    In fact, every new image is a combination of hundreds of original photographs, sometimes with raw materials created by Mr Johansson himself, and dozens of hours spent in Adobe Photoshop to digitally alter and combine different elements to illustrate his idea.
     
    This image, called Landfall, was created by photographing a cardboard model with paint running down it, then adding photographs of a real house and field on to it
    Mr Johansson writes on his website that he uses photography as a means of 'collecting material to realise the ideas in my mind'.
     
    First the image is sketched as a basic idea. He then plans what is required to create the landscape and starts identifying locations to photograph. These serve as the basis for the photo, or what he calls the 'raw material'.
     
    'Electric Guitar', by Erik Johansson

    Any additional materials needed, such as the cardboard model and paints required for Landfall are also photographed.

    Go Your Own Road, showing a man pulling an asphalt road across land, combines photos of a man pulling a blanket and pictures of the scene

    This image shows a small town or set of houses within a bottle floating in a sea
     
     
    The final part is putting the photos together. This can take him anywhere from a few days to several weeks and he describes it as the easiest step - like putting together the pieces of a puzzle.

     
    Downside of the Upside, which Mr Johansson made in 2009, is an illusion showing two people impossibly standing on opposite sides of the same bridge


    Source
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2750431/It-s-sew-cold-Turning-autumn-winter-needle-thread-neat-idea-laying-roads-artist-creates-fantastic-surreal-landscapes.html

    Eric Johansson's website - http://erikjohanssonphoto.com/

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