$URREALISM ONTHE $TREET CORNER

LUCRATIVE INSTANT MONEY FOR PHOTOGS

You have a camera, PhotoShop software or something similar? A Laptop a printer? Imagine doing this on streetcorners or at the Big Park or the Harbor where folks stroll on Saturdays, Sundays when the Tourists are crowding in hoardes. A family portrait They’re all posed stiffly on the harbor front, the skyline of the city behind them. With odd props, strange things.

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Say you shoot the whole family with your own, prop umbrellas and get your fifty bucks and you email the print to them, or print it out and mail it. Your business card has your address, WEBSITE. So they know they're not going to get robbed. You have a digital camera, you make it clear they can have the digitals, then later, if they want, you'll make prints, even frame them. That's like a mail order deal as, by then,  they've gone back to IOWA. So Just a pose and an email of graphic is like 10$ print outs go up to 50$ That kind of money is something they'd have to think about. Always have examples of final prints on a placard near you. Clients from the weeks before..or friends if you're just starting up. Price for each print goes down. Christmas cards, business cards, Show them examples of your desk top publishing skills.

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Or you may want to use a PRO PRINTING SHOP for some personalized Greeting cards, Stationery or Xmas Cards. Or party invitations, something they want. But the thing about PORTRAITURE is, nobody else can do it
but you! Or PRINT on a square of COTTON, make them a pillow. Let them stuff it, mail the cover only

Google IMAGE “SURREAL PHOTGRAPHY” and various search terms, you’ll see many!

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You can 'Photoshop' in the details that people tell you they love. In my case, I love the color blue, I love
clouds, stars, moons, comets, astrology. Cats. So maybe you can assemble a portrait for
me utilizing a combination of things -- even draw my name in nice letters.
A photo of a family with a rainbow, a unicorn and a cat in the picture.

COMBINE THE SIGNATURE, throw in liberal COLORS, add SKY, CLOUDS and YOUR MODEL or CLIENT
ADD THE CAT! Where's the CAT ? Well PHOTOSHOP THEIR PET into it
Right O! Give me a second, here. There!  Cat! No, that's not surreal enough. Here.

SCARY! My face but half cat? I'll take it for my mother inlaw!
For ten bucks, but no dozen prints of this one, thank you!

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If you have a real glamour girl, do those features up right!

Give her something she cannot get from her pals' kodak.

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SOME MAN has a wildness about him? Give him the DALI FACE. Set his portrait under a FIRESTORM
of oil paint. Dali was the last great Surrealist.

Fifty BUCKS A PHOTOGRAPH SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT!
YEP cuz YA PRINT IT OUT IN COLOR! That's gotta
cost the photographer something!

But I can also do it in black and white

MEOW. I agree! Jean Cocteau, one of the first great surrealists
And you can do all this with just a digital camera?

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YEP & MORE! Take a MAGRITTE outline, PUT  subject's face in it.

Take the  MAGRITTE PAINTING
or LEONARDO DA VINCI's MONA LISA Add client! No, not the PIDGEON!
WHY NOT? It's PHOTO SHOP STUPID! 
But don't cover client's face. Find a MAGRITTE with the face open. As people PAY for themselves
being inserted in something INTERESTING. Kind of like in CHINATOWN when you used to
stand in front of THE TARZAN PAINTING and stick your face out and your big BROTHER was the
GORILLA.

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MAKE USE OF PROPS!

THE RIBBON DANCE
For black and white film, use a thinner, white ribbon on a stick, give subject two, and just shoot away while they twirl. Effective in stills or in video. A lot of movement, even if still photos. Google "ribbon dance" in quotes. You may find Messerer dancing at the Bolshoi with his thiner, white ribbon. Seven feet of sheeting on a stick! But it is really exciting in use and pictured.

MASKS are a possibility but not over the face. MAKE YOUR OWN OF PAPIER MACHE
As you put your client to dancing, or surround her/him with strange people with masks on, you will attract a crowd. Everyone will want a portrait and be putting their money in your face. Get a pal with a gun to walk you home as by 5 pm you'll have a grand on you!'

UMBRELLAS, those BLACK CLASSIC ONES for SURREALISM in B&W.

Metronomes moving, if you do video assemblage
Their eye is on the tip.
Moving.

You're going to add music to it, maybe. VIDEO should be available as a choice.

TWO LOVERS? Get a big frame

YOU CAN DO A STUNNING PROFILE PORTRAIT USING REAL FILM
then DEVELOP THE OVEREXPOSED NEGATIVE, Solarize it PRINT SEPIA.

For more ideas, study the master surrealists, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali.

“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated." Ellen Glasgow

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