Before Wolfram Keller devotes his optical illusions, he needs an idea. This is at the beginning of each recording combined with a drawing. It is the A and O for all surreal productions. In order to give the idea a concrete form, Wolfram Keller first creates a sketch and answers questions such as: “Can this thought-construct be implemented with my possibilities?” Fantasy and experience are required here.
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Then he calculates how many photos he needs to convert the surreal image. Also details such as: "Is a sharpness necessary in the depth or can all image components be held with the same light?", He decides in advance.
The lighthouse
After setting up the necessary image components, he frequently blocks the access of his workspace. However, tripods can not be moved with the apparatus and the photographic surface. "In an anamorphic drawing, I need a picture with the model - hand or figure - in front of or above a sheet of paper, which is used as a pattern for the drawings, I use a flashlight for small, intense light effects "He explained.
No chance - Snowman
Wolfram Keller (profile on fotocommunity.de) began to combine his photographs with drawings with the picture "The Lighthouse". The idea came to him when viewing the completed fc Challenge Digiart Challenge 39 "Let there be light". He looked at the default and the contributions and decided to try the pencil ready to hand it with a drawing. Then he made several drawings to represent the lighthouse's face with the lighthouse and water turning the image 90 degrees to the right, hiding the face of the lighthouse keeper.
Water jug
He shot photos with a flashlight, set them free and corrected the exposure, color and saturation on the computer. In order to adjust light and shadow and remove unwanted images, such as adhesive strips on the paper corners, he worked with the brush tools blurring, punching and softening on several levels.
During a walk in snow and sunshine, Wolfram Keller came up with the idea of a drawn snowman. He was inspired by fc photographer Joan van Hout, who had created pictures for and with children and had once asked him: "Do something with snow." Wolfram Keller continues: "I modeled a snowman and made this photo.
In the post-processing I exposed the hand with the pen and mounted it as a new level in the photographed drawing. Then I removed interfering elements like glue corners and a part of the pen that sticked into the snowman's arm, and finally added the water. In addition, I improved the light and shadow of the images and performed standard photocorrections.
My thoughts and a few sketched experiments were about how I could lead a more distant drawing on the foreground, "says Wolfram Keller, with the words of his daughter in his ear:" How about water?
He photographed several jugs with a corresponding water flow. Subsequently, he made drawings according to the selected jug model. The photo shows the drawings, the water flow is optional and mounted in a further level in the final image.
My aim was to make a piece of paper with a drawing look three-dimensional, "reveals Wolfram Keller, making a drawing, adding dummy, hands and mask." I photographed quickly, without flash, in the sunlight, he explains. Installation and retouching were done on the computer as always.
Lesetipp: Portrait and nudes of Karl Knerr
For varnishing the fingernails and pulling the thread, various brush tools such as lasso and stapler were used to duplicate the exposed pencil.
"Does it have to be a piece of paper?", With this question Wolfram Keller fell into the composition with the paper flyer. He photographed the plane in a small holder above the paper. Then he lighted his hand, which feigned the flight of the plane, and took it as a drawing on a blank sheet of paper.
Model and draftsman
Lesetipp: Available Light Photography by Jörn Stubbe
At the end he retouched the holder and the glue corners, connected the drawn hand with the folding jet, and adjusted the light and shade. He worked on the PC on several levels. He used image processing tools and computer photorecorrections (exposure, histogram, curves, color, saturation) and a variety of brush tools. The picture was chosen as the winner of the competition Digiart Challenge 67 "ausZEICHNET".
Drawing and photography
The clown "- the task of the 56th fc Digiart-Challenge with this title - inspired Wolfram Keller to the picture painting by figures, he reports:" The idea of the weekend image task came to me after an intensive consideration of Dalis picture Spain from 1938.
Now I only had to compile the newspaper cut-outs during the shoot, assemble with the drawing and put the pencil away on the PC.
To the flying was Wolfram Keller in the production with the drawn falcon. By an unpublished picture of an anamorphous drawing of a snail shell, which he had on the computer on a further level with a shadow underlined, he came up with this idea, had led nevertheless at the snail shell the easy shifting of the shadow throw to a bewildering 3D-levitating effect. Likewise, he wanted to fly the hawk over the sheet of paper, though drawn.
Drawing & Photography
The Falke
Thus Wolfram Keller made a drawing, on which the bird could easily be seen from above. A bottom view would have reduced the levitation effect. In the post-processing, he only added the shadow, removed unwanted details such as glue corners and took the usual photocorrections. (Illumination, histogram, curves, color, saturation). Wolfram Keller also used layers and different brush tools.
Wolfram Keller, father of two already grown children, is autodidact. He was born in Jena in 1960 and was characterized by two social systems. He began as an occasional snapper with an EXA 1b mostly to expose slides. Today, he photographed with a digital Sony Cybershot DSC-F828, supported by a tripod Cullmann Magnesit 525 Monopod and edited his pictures with Paint Shop Pro X4 ultimate, Cut 2 as well as acquired and free filters. An exhibition with drawings and photographs by Wolfram Keller and Joan van Hout is available from 8. 11. 2013 until 30. 3. 2017 in the Caritas-Pirkheimer-Haus, Königstr. 64, 90402 Nuremberg, the United States. For the calendar year 2017, the calendar "Fantastic for your eyes" has also appeared with his recordings. This is available in horizontal format as a wall calendar in A3 and A4 as well as as a table calendar at amazon.
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