Artistic Photo Editing of Everyday Built Environments. Erik Johansson takes photo editing and manipulation to new levels with his ever-growing collection of creative, innovative and amazing scenes of altered architecture and unbelivable built environments, distorted objects and twisted imagery – all while preserving an eerie photo-realism from the original photographic subject.
Given his emphasis on constructed objects, the care with which he crafts every detail of each image and controls the overall composition, it is perhaps no surprise that this photographer’s background is not in the arts but in computer engineering and interactive design. The rich three-dimensional complexity of each edited photograph is accomplished using exclusively two-dimensional computer editing tools and each work is based on a real photograph, manipulated, altered and added to in a layered and sequential process.
In Pursuit of the Sublime. 25 Incredibly Detailed Black And White Portraits of the Homeless by Lee Jeffries. Lee Jeffries career began as a sports photographer, capturing the beautiful game of football in Manchester.
Then a chance meeting with a homeless woman living in the streets of London changed his life forever. He has since dedicated himself to capturing gripping portraits of the disenfranchised. Shooting exclusively in black and white, Lee Jeffries’ 135+ pictures can be viewed in his Flickr Photostream. The majority are closeup portraits with incredible detail. Each photograph exudes so much raw character and depth, you find yourself studying each shot with great intensity. Lee Jeffries lives in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Lee Jeffries recalls that, initially, he had stolen a photo from this young homeless girl huddled in a sleeping bag. The loneliness of the swan by Luca Castagna. 50e8f523e8e30e0fda3bcb7baaeb668c_l.jpg (JPEG Imagen, 1024x682 píxeles)
Helping hands. La estética submarina de los cuerpos desnudos. Beautifully Offbeat Photography (13 photos) Samuel Bradley's photos cannot be neatly categorized.
Wonderfully offbeat and somewhat quirky, they truly span the spectrum. As he tells us, "I'm battling with two different ways of working and I don't know which one I prefer. I think most people follow my work and blog for the more quirky, interestingly processed and sometimes a bit 'cliché vintage' photographs. They're accessible to a wider audience, they don't require a lot of explanation and invite people to make their own assumptions and construct their own meanings. " He continues, "Then there's the other side of my work that I think I've only really just begun to explore. I asked Bradley to share the story behind the man and the wolf photo we featured a few days ago (see above). "In all honesty I wasn't happy with the project as a whole, but I got three of my strongest and most popular photographs out of it. Thought-Provoking: Jill Greenberg's Glass Ceiling.
Now showing at ClampArt gallery in New York is Jill Greenberg's beautifully riveting series Glass Ceiling.
While Greenberg is known for her incredible portraiture that includes crying babies, A-list celebrities or even cute and cuddly bears, she's equally adept at taking her camera off land and under water. Back in 2008, Greenberg was commissioned to shoot a commercial fashion spread with the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team, which asked the ladies to wear high heels. Struck by the absurdity of it all, Greenberg was inspired to create a fine art set that would show the "tension of her models coming to the surface gasping for air while wrestling with the weight of the water as a metaphor for the role women must play in the outside world. " Sent to us from ClampArt gallery, here are some of photos from that thought-provoking series. © Jill Greenberg, "Untitled (Glass Ceiling 1-1017)," 2008, Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City. “Más allá del infinito”: la fortaleza de espejos fractales de Serge Salat. Simulando un policromático y vertiginoso infinito, la instalación Beyond Infinity del arquitecto francés Serge Salat, en un centro comercial de Shanghai, busca ser una experiencia multisensorial en la que el espectador-participante se sumerge “en un viaje místico”.
Combinando espejos, luz LED, música y objetos fractales para inducir encantamiento estético y alucinaciones perceptuales, Salat trastoca el constructo espacial, que oscila entre un ambiente disco y el interior iterado de una dimensión puramente digital. Dentro de la instalación la música y la luz se sincronizan para generar un simulacro de sinestesia en el que los visitantes se mueven a través de atardeceres artificiales ultravioletas y cruzan una “falla vertical infinita” que da la impresión de eliminar el espacio en el que caminan, como si se aventuraran al abismo de la Matrix. Impresionantes dibujos en la arena: la obra de Jim Denevan. Jim Denevan es un buen surfer, lleva ya varios años montando las olas del norte de California.
Mark Jenkins // Street Installations. Cole rise. Road to.jpg (JPEG Imagen, 997x768 píxeles) - Escalado (72%) Awesome Photo Manipulation. Before computers, photo manipulation was achieved by retouching with ink, paint, double-exposure, piecing photos or negatives together in the darkroom, or scratching Polaroids… Photoshop is simply brilliant for creating Stunning Effects from simple elements and for fixing Photos that got the right scene but isn’t ok fx. in the light or color balance.
In the hands of someone who knows how to control Photoshop it is able to do some really cool tricks but it isn’t easy at all for beginners.