Surreal Experiments

After going out and taking photographs around Paddington Central in London we decided to experiment with the surreal task and see what we come up with.

Here I attempted to dry out a canal in Paddington Basin however it is much harder to do than I first thought as it was difficult to makes the boats appear as if they were sitting on the canal-bed, rather than in the water. The dry ground also looks to high to look realistic enough and even with much research on photoshop tutorials i was unable to make it look like it was intended. After getting feedback from friends this idea was scrapped and we tried other ideas.

Here are two separate images I took and tried to converge them into one to create something surreal. Again it isn't very interesting and I felt that it was too simple to show surrealism. Practicing with these images taught me that it's quite hard to get things right in the first attempt and with photography we are able to make changes until we are happy with the final result.