Class Exercise B -- Surrealism

"Surrealism style uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility.” – I believe this is a good explanation of surrealism.

Here's some good images I think qualify surrealism.









We did a class exercise during lecture.

Here’s our group’s work: Definition of Surrealism: A photo that brings out the thoughts of a subconscious mind in an irrational manner.




We created something we want to present as surrealism. We put a lion’s mouth on a green apple.

We make the apple biting a human’s arm. Here’s a explanation why we got this idea and concept:

Genetic modification of food or plants and use of pesticides for the cultivation of food has altered them so much so that it might come back to haunt us. We eat apples because it is presumed to be healthy but now with genetic modification and use of pesticides, it may harm our health.

Assignment 3--Focal Length & Sensor Latitude

1. Perspective

This is my perspective shot. I wasn’t sure what kind of view counts perspective. I thought there should be a lot of space in an impressive angle of view. Turns out I did fine with the perspective. The teacher likes my angle which is a looking-up view. Not like normal eye-level angle.

2. Close-up

I saw few ants climb around a white cute flower. I took some photos. I crop it up to the ant but turns out the quality drops too much. I thought the ant is so tine, so it should counts close-up. Anyway, it doesn’t … so I need to change the subject…

3. Zoom Shot

This is the most amazing tech I ever learnt so far! I was walking by this very pretty white church. The zoom shot effects out of the cross should be amazing!

I also love this one, but I might want use this as high key, but not sure it is qualified…

I was moving the camera around on purpose while take the zoom shot beside the street. I love this one very much. But one of my friends said it’s just messy lines… so I wasn’t sure about this…

4. High Key

High key suppose to have a neat white background with few highlights in foreground. It’s a cloudy day while I took the photo. So the background (the sky) is quite neat white. And the church is white too! So I thought it’s the perfect subject for my high key photo.

While I was taking photos around the church, there’s a couple taking their wedding photos outside there. The bride wearing a very pretty white wedding dress, so I thought with the white church background, if I push the expose a bit, it’s a good high key that not a lot of students would have the chance to take.

5. Low Key

I thought this is a great low key. With the lights shape in a curve, it’s a great photo! I don’t know why others saying it’s messy… but I think I get it, there are some trees between all the lights, so there’s lines cutting some of the light ball in half…

So here’s some backups ….