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I'm here to share my photography. Or ____ it photography?
Because, of course, this is a photograph that you can't take with your camera.
____, my interest in photography started as I got my first
digital camera at the age of 15. It mixed with my earlier passion for drawing,
but it was a bit different, because using the camera, the process was in the
planning ________. And when you take a photograph with a camera, the process
ends when you press the trigger. So to me it felt like photography was more
about being at the right place and the right time. I felt like anyone could do
that.
_____ I wanted to create something different, something where
the process starts when you press the trigger. Photos like this: construction
going on along a busy road. But it has an unexpected ______. And despite that,
it retains a level of realism. Or photos like these -- both dark and colorful,
but all with a common goal of ________ the level of realism. When I say
realism, I mean photo-realism. Because, of course, it's not something you can
capture ______, but I always want it to look like it could have been captured _______
as a photograph. Photos where you will need a _______ moment to think to figure
out the trick. So it's more about capturing an idea than about capturing a
moment _____.
But what's the trick that makes it look realistic? Is it something
about the details or the colors? Is it something about the light? What creates
the illusion? Sometimes the __________ is the illusion. But in the end, it
comes _______ to how we interpret the world and how it can be realized on a
two-dimensional surface. It's not _____ what is realistic, it's what we think
looks realistic _____.
So I think the basics are quite simple. I just see it as a
puzzle of reality where you can take different pieces of reality and put it
together to create ___________ reality. And let me show you a simple example.
Here we have three ______ imaginable physical objects, something we all can
relate to living in a three-dimensional world. But combined in a certain way,
they can create something that still looks three-dimensional, like it could
exist. ______ at the same time, we know it can't. So we trick our brains, because
our brain _____ doesn't accept the fact that it doesn't ______ make sense. And
I see the same process with combining photographs. It's just _____ about combining
different realities.
So the things that make a photograph look realistic, I think
it's the things that we don't even think about, the things all around us in our
daily lives. But when combining photographs, this is ______ important to __________,
because otherwise it just looks wrong ______. So I would like to say that there
are three simple rules to follow to achieve a realistic result. As you can see,
these images aren't ______ special. But combined, they can create something
like this.
So the first rule is that photos combined ________ have the
same perspective. ______, photos combined should have the same type of light.
And these two images both fulfill these two requirements -- shot at the same
height and in the same type of light. The third one is about making it
impossible to __________ where the different images begin and end by making it
seamless. Make it impossible to say how the image ______ was composed. So _____ matching color, contrast and brightness in the borders between the different
images, adding photographic ________ like depth of field, desaturated colors and
noise, we erase the borders between the different images and make it look like
one single image, _________ the fact that one image can contain hundreds of layers
______.
So here's another example. One might think that this is just
an image of a landscape and the lower part is what's manipulated. But this
image is _______ entirely composed of photographs from different locations. I
_________ think that it's easier to ______ create a place than to find a
place, because then you don't need to compromise with the ideas in your head.
But it ______ require a lot of planning. And getting this idea during winter, I
knew that I had several months to plan it, to find the different locations for
the pieces of the puzzle ______. So for example, the fish was captured on a
fishing trip. The shores are from a different location. The underwater part was
captured in a stone pit. And yeah, I even turned the house on top of the island
red to make it look more __________.
So to achieve a realistic result, I think it _______ down to
planning. It always starts with a sketch, an idea. Then it's about combining
the different photographs. And here every piece is very well planned. And if
you do a good job capturing the photos, the result can be _____ beautiful and
also quite realistic. So all the tools are out there, and the only thing that
_______ us is our imagination.
