This week's theme revolves around scenes that seem more like something out of a dream. If you don't have your camera with you when you dream at night, why not recreate the dream world while you're awake? ?
HOW DOES IT WORK? (REMINDER)
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photograph and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic.
The themes will be varied, from portraits to Macro photography, going through landscapes, black and white photography, or babies.
The topics will be proposed on Saturdays, so that you have the whole weekend to work on them. You will have one week to upload your photograph (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. On Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that has captivated me the most and I will propose a new topic, and so…
WEEKLY CHALLENGE 27: ONEIRIC
This week we are going to portray a scene imitating the dream world, making it as similar as possible to a dream. The good thing is that any subject will be valid: portraits, landscapes, objects, pets... The only requirement is that the photo suggests a dream.
For that there are several techniques you can use:
- Long exposure: Shooting a photograph in long exposure but in which the subject moves intentionally, we will get a blurred effect that can suggest a moment of confusion between dream and reality.
- Later edition: Using Photoshop (or a free photo editing program ) we can merge 2 or more photos obtaining an unreal effect that is quite interesting.
- Saturation, contour lines, black and white: when you dream how do you do it? In color? In black and white? Well that, in dreams the images seem to be more fragile and weak, even from the point of view of color. Use it to recreate a dream: make your photo in total black and white, tweak the ISO sensitivity to make the photo appear more imperfect, lower the saturation and leave a faint hint of color that is hardly distinguishable.
- Composition: You do not necessarily need to "trick" the photo to make it look like a dream. You can play with the composition itself: place elements or subjects that are foreign to the photographed environment, confuse the viewer and give him an impression of strangeness, strangeness and confusion.
- Blur: A blur sought and on purpose will always give the sensation of something unreal, dreamed, imagined or at least not perceived 100% real and firm.
There are more ways to recreate a dream, the important thing is to give free rein to your imagination.
Look for inspiration on photo social networks like Flickr and Pinterest. Search as the term: dream, oneiric, etc. (try translations into English, French, German, etc. and you will find many more ideas).
Joel Robinson is famous for his dream-like photographs. Be sure to check out her galleryIt can give you ideas.
As usual, to participate in this week's challenge upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the Photographer's Blog: In the description of the photo, please mention the keyword “Dream Challenge” followed by a title of your choice.
ALTERNATIVE MEANS TO PARTICIPATE
For those of you who are not from Facebook, I have enabled new social networks to participate.
- Flickr: Accessing the Photographer's Blog Group Wall and uploading the photo directly. Give your photo a title and be sure to mention “Dream Challenge” in it.
- Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #RetoOniricoBDF
Thanks for participating. Happy dreams ?
UPDATE
Choosing a small selection of photos that represent the work you've all been doing and uploading this week is a difficult task. It is easier to agree on a good portrait, a good flower photo, than on a dream and nightmare photo ? What is a good dream photo? Is it a disturbing photo? Is it a photo in which the characters appear "elegant"? Is it a photo as close as possible to what one could dream of any night?
I leave the interpretation to each one ? because that is what it is about: it is a psychic world so internal and so personal that I do not venture to label a photo as good in an absolute way or reject it as mediocre.
Even so, here is the usual weekly selection: in this case I have tried several works uploaded to the different social channels of the blog (Facebook, Twitter and Flickr) as well as the techniques used
I like all of them but I want to highlight the photo of Ani: the definition of the photo is relatively low, and precisely that helps to convey that feeling of "dream", because in a dream we do not see things with full definition (at least I do). .
Elements from the dream world have been used, such as the stairs, the trees, and some intriguing flash of light in the blue part of the photo.
The composition is exceptional: the bodies of the subjects direct their gaze towards the staircase. This is reinforced by the gesture of the protagonist who extends her hand towards the stairs, causing you as a spectator to fix your attention on her.
Finally, the title of the photo gives it more strength, character and history.
Congratulations Annie!
