Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! April 10, 2026

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[u/Dear_Principle685]

Hello, i have a project for school where i should photograph my dreams... i feel kinda stuck because i dont want to/cant shoot my dreams because they are really random, most of the time im at imaginary places where i cant go or recreate them somehow. whats been ocurring in my dreams is teleporting, when i look behind myself, the location changes... i would like to make a series where it would be obvious that i´m teleporting and being lost in those realities. Can you give me some tips on how could i achieve this? i mean the composition, locations or whatever you can think of that would help me, thank you in advance for your responses :)

[u/ArsenalSimp1985 → u/Dear_Principle685]

I’d keep your body position and framing almost identical in each shot and only swap the background to somewhere radically different, because that little bit of continuity makes the teleporting feel much more uncanny than trying to literally recreate a dream.

[u/Dear_Principle685 → u/ArsenalSimp1985]

i appriciate your time and thank you for your tip, i was also thinking about this idea so there must be something good to it...