If you want to give your photos a special twist, you can try a surrealistic approach. The aim is to expand reality with dreamlike scenarios. We see that such an approach can work wonderfully in the picture Musing About Swimming by Ralph Gräf, which was taken on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The protagonist of the beach scene is Ralph Gräf himself, his clothes – including a black suit and bowler hat – immediately transport the viewer into the world of the surrealists. In the paintings of René Magritte (1898-1967), old master of surrealism, for example, men with suits and bowler hats can be found in dreamy scenes time and again. Ralph Gräf wrote to us about the photo that belongs to his series The Traveler: “The series, which I started over ten years ago, is about a traveler who has fallen out of time and who is in special places or in bizarre situations The pictures were taken with a self-timer. ” It is worth taking a look at the Traveler series, an exciting work about the fictional traveler has been created over the years.
Infrared view of landscapes
Dave Derbis also works serially, his motif Dreamscape IX is included in the pictures of the week. “The photo was taken on one of my bike photo tours and is part of the Dreamscapes series,” explains the photographer. “All photos in the series are infrared landscape shots and show landscapes that appear peaceful, as if from a daydream or from another dimension.” The special look is created “through a certain combination of light, vegetation, clouds and of course the infrared filter on a camera without an IR cut filter”. In that case it was a Sony Cybershot DSC-F828. In addition, according to Dave Derbis, there is “a targeted post-processing of the infrared raw photos with a manually adjusted white balance and the red-blue color channel swap.”
Our photo series shows these and all other images of the day of the past calendar week at a glance:
Winter on the Brocken
(Image: M. Rasch)
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