The first image is my favourite surreal image that I am yet to find, as I think it is incredibly clever. As with most of Erik's images it is mainly a amalgamation of two different images in layers to create a really clever effect. I think that he took a picture of road which ended suddenly and also a picture with him with a sheet and worked with the opacity and turning 'Colour to Alpha' in Photoshop. There is a really clever vanishing point, and line of perspective which leads the eye back. Also, because the road and Eriks clothes are both grey/blues, and the rest of the image is all midtones of green it means that both elements stand out a lot more.
The whole style of Eriks work is varied, but always using interesting techniques to keep the audience interested in his work. The picture of the scissors cutting through the house and landscape has a totally different feel to the previous picture as it is very dark and gloomy with a very low lying cloud which gives the whole image a rather negative feel. Throughout his portfolio he expresses the mood he requires by the tone of the sky, and with the brightness levels. In the image of the clothes on a telephone mast, there is also the subtle hint of a rainbow in the background again implying a happy tone. He also always makes good use of vanishing points and lines, as most of his images direct the viewer to the back middle of the image. Most of his surreal images are actually quite simple, but because he is so developed in his Photoshop skills they work really well together. One image that baffles me however is the hands holding on to a vase after a fall, however the vase has remained intact and the arms have shattered. I really don't know how he could have created this effect as it is a very tricky thing to take pictures of. In contrast an image which I think would be really simple to recreate is the picture of the lady painting the floor while the rest of the picture is in greyscale. Once again it is simply merging two images together and using colou effects to create the illusion.
The whole style of Eriks work is varied, but always using interesting techniques to keep the audience interested in his work. The picture of the scissors cutting through the house and landscape has a totally different feel to the previous picture as it is very dark and gloomy with a very low lying cloud which gives the whole image a rather negative feel. Throughout his portfolio he expresses the mood he requires by the tone of the sky, and with the brightness levels. In the image of the clothes on a telephone mast, there is also the subtle hint of a rainbow in the background again implying a happy tone. He also always makes good use of vanishing points and lines, as most of his images direct the viewer to the back middle of the image. Most of his surreal images are actually quite simple, but because he is so developed in his Photoshop skills they work really well together. One image that baffles me however is the hands holding on to a vase after a fall, however the vase has remained intact and the arms have shattered. I really don't know how he could have created this effect as it is a very tricky thing to take pictures of. In contrast an image which I think would be really simple to recreate is the picture of the lady painting the floor while the rest of the picture is in greyscale. Once again it is simply merging two images together and using colou effects to create the illusion.
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