Digital Project

Erik Johansson

Erik Johansson is a photographer from Sweden. Currently he lives in Berlin, Germany. There he is busy working on both commercial and personal projects. He has a very different view on photography. It is that,  photography is just a way of collecting different material, and to realize the ideas in his mind with a very different problem solving approach. His purpose is to make an image that could potentially contain hundreds of photographs, appear to be a photography that could have been taken with a camera. For him, every project is a new challenge. His main goal is to make the final image to appear as realistic as possible.

Images

This photo has the slight feeling of darkness. The man in the image is trying to cover the darkness with a beautiful view of a valley with trees and flowers. A completely other concept to what is behind the image. i like how it has the lightness in contrast with the dark.

This final image is also very dark. From what i get out of this image is that the light on the sealing is conducting the fire. It is burning through the floor as long as anything that is thrown under the light (fire) that being produced. i chose this because i like how most of the import parts of the image are focused in the middle of the image.

The boy in the image is letting what was originally in the picture, out of the frame. I really enjoy just looking at this image. The open ocean in one corner, the boy standing knee deep in the ocean spilling the picture, then the ships floating from out of the picture out on to the open ocean.

My image

Newfoundland

#3) advanced collage tricks

For this image I had a picture of a lake, a sunset and from there i totally changed the image. First i edited each different layer. I darkened the sunset picture and added a layer of stars and faded it out so you could still see the sunset. Then i used the burn brush to blend the sky into the trees on the lake layer so it wasn't such a dramatic change, it progressively changes. From there i added the different animals and the moon by using the Magnetic lasso tool and cutting the animals from their original images and adding them in layers to the image, added reflections and shadows to make it look more realistic. Then as a whole image in the end i edited it together, adding brightness and contrast, vibrance and changing the curves.