Sandy Skoglund

Sandy's work has extreme color contrasts and slight realism's that are over exaggerated and multiplied by a hundred. her art is eccentric and creates surrealist images. Her work is half realism and half artificiality.Credits say she creates environments with unparalleled attention to detail,and her work is extremely labour intensive,requiring far more effort than would be needed to produce a photograph alone.
Some of her influences were Disneyland and American horror movies she liked the whole dream or nightmare elements.It usually take months to complete one photo. I think that she is amazing at what she dose and she is the exact style that i love to recreate and strive to be like.She clearly means that its more appealing the eyes and is visually strong but dose not have any hidden meaning behind it or make you think about what shes trying to say but just is what it is.

rule of thirds black and white

This picture unedited was not my favorite picture,but once i adjusted the contrast and lighting it became a stronger image.I was able to capture this interesting directional curved line, by getting slightly above eye level with the logs.Making morgan my off centered focal point.What makes this photo strong is the amount of detail and interesting lines.

bike and simplicity

This is a visually appealing image because the of the angel and coloring of the picture.I achieved this angel by getting quite low to the ground and kind of using the boat and trees to frame it as well.I think i captured the simplicity i was looking for,even though there is allot around the main focal point.

I think that this photo is a strong image because of the contrast between the shinny metal and the soft feather the black againts the white really makes it pop. I also just like how you can see each little section of the feathers fibers.