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05/20/2014 10:02:30 PM · #26
Originally posted by tanguera:

Not for "photography" purists, this guy has a wickedly surreal imagination, and does beautiful photo manipulation. Well, IMO...


Thanks for this.....I have a new cell phone and I took the Flickr plunge. Will never be the same again. Ah....
05/21/2014 12:16:37 AM · #27
Originally posted by insteps:

My first response to highly manipulated digital art is usually "how did they do that?" Once this happens the deeper meaning is marginalized. The things Darius does with a camera and software are truly amazing but not what I find interesting about photography.


It's just like a magic act. You go to be amazed, but if you already know how the acts are performed you quickly lose interest. The only difference with magic is nobody questions the meaning behind the woman being cut in half. Although we might be better off as a species if someone actually did.
05/21/2014 12:27:11 AM · #28
I often question the meaning behind the typical landscape. No answer yet.
05/21/2014 12:53:32 AM · #29
Johanna, a sense of odd meditation settled on me as I looked through these photos. I pictured this artist as a child cascading his legos through different alien landscapes of time and space. As an adult, his technique purifies into astonishing skill. Yet, alas, my passing sense of interest didn't elevate and bloom into personal fascination. *pout*

But, you know I'm hopeless...this artist is an acquired taste! I have no taste...so I know I'm safe...but from what I know not.

I'm glad you shared this experience...::beams::

Message edited by author 2014-05-21 00:53:56.
05/21/2014 10:20:23 AM · #30
For those of you who have a taste for Klimczak's work, here are some other artists -- some in photography and some in other media.
05/21/2014 11:07:04 AM · #31
Thanks, Germaine! I'm familiar with several of those artists. One of the artists - Oleg Oprisco - does this surreal stuff in a single shot. Been watching him a while.

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05/21/2014 11:46:22 AM · #32
Tanguera, I've seen Oprisco's work. His "milky" processing really intrigues me. As for the set-up's, I wish I had the imagination to stage things like that.

Message edited by author 2014-05-21 11:47:09.
05/22/2014 07:45:14 AM · #33
Originally posted by pixelpig:

I often question the meaning behind the typical landscape. No answer yet.


This is a great question. I think about it also but I haven't really nailed down an answer yet.
05/22/2014 09:54:46 AM · #34
Originally posted by Germaine:

For those of you who have a taste for Klimczak's work, here are some other artists -- some in photography and some in other media.


Been following this thread for a while now, but the second link
WOW! I love that stuff..brings more nicer feelings out in me.. I think that is great work, the first link there's a few things I like but just weird styles, and I guess each artist has their own style and flare. That one that link Germaine showed was absolutely amazing. I wish I could learn that half of that kind of editing, photography and creativity.. some day after I grow up perhaps :-)
I am sure this kind takes years to perfect.

Thanks for sharing thread and links, it is always great to learn of other's work and be "exposed" like this.
Wasn't until I joined DPC that I was exposed like this to other photography artists, makes me realize how much I really don't know about photography yet..

This is the experience and sharing that I really appreciate.
05/22/2014 11:38:38 AM · #35
Originally posted by Germaine:

Tanguera, I've seen Oprisco's work. His "milky" processing really intrigues me. As for the set-up's, I wish I had the imagination to stage things like that.


Part of it is also the MF camera. That is a whole 'nother ball of wax in terms of captured "look". If money wasn't an object - even used, mechanical ones are about $9K...

@Julie - it's always good to look at other people's work. I know surrealism is not everyone's cup of tea, but it inspires me to try to think OOB. How other people use their imagination is fascinating to me. As for the pp'g, you will likely learn much of it here on DPC.
05/22/2014 12:16:30 PM · #36
Originally posted by nygold:

Originally posted by pixelpig:

I often question the meaning behind the typical landscape. No answer yet.


This is a great question. I think about it also but I haven't really nailed down an answer yet.


landscape was a painting genre from the Romantic period. At the time, it was a radical departure and 18th/19th century DPC voters gave those paintings lots of 1s. After all, they have no SUBJECT.

The Romantics were glorifying "Nature." Often, there would be people in the landscape, but they would be tiny. Man dwarfed by Nature, instead of Man Doing Heroic Stuff, which was a more traditional theme of painting.

Later artists saw the potential of landscapes as subject-less paintings, taking them down the slippery slope into Abstract painting.

By the time photography came around, landscape was an established genre of painting, so photographers did it, too, because earlier photographers had no tradition to work from besides painting.

I give you history because there is no meaning. There is only history.

Message edited by author 2014-05-22 14:16:43.
05/22/2014 01:00:24 PM · #37
Originally posted by posthumous:

I give you history because there is no meaning. There is only history.


Indeed
05/22/2014 01:24:39 PM · #38
and today. carpe.
05/22/2014 01:30:14 PM · #39
and tomorrow, grouse.
05/22/2014 02:05:34 PM · #40
woodcock.
05/22/2014 09:58:49 PM · #41
Originally posted by tanguera:

Originally posted by Germaine:

Tanguera, I've seen Oprisco's work. His "milky" processing really intrigues me. As for the set-up's, I wish I had the imagination to stage things like that.


Part of it is also the MF camera. That is a whole 'nother ball of wax in terms of captured "look". If money wasn't an object - even used, mechanical ones are about $9K...

@Julie - it's always good to look at other people's work. I know surrealism is not everyone's cup of tea, but it inspires me to try to think OOB. How other people use their imagination is fascinating to me. As for the pp'g, you will likely learn much of it here on DPC.


What, pray tell, is an MF camera?
05/22/2014 10:13:29 PM · #42
MF = Medium Format: like the Phase One cameras nowadays, like the film Hasselblads and Mamiya 645s...
05/23/2014 07:05:11 AM · #43
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

MF = Medium Format: like the Phase One cameras nowadays, like the film Hasselblads and Mamiya 645s...


That's a relief I thought it was Mother F**king Camera. :)
05/23/2014 09:16:07 AM · #44
Originally posted by tanguera:

Originally posted by Germaine:

Tanguera, I've seen Oprisco's work. His "milky" processing really intrigues me. As for the set-up's, I wish I had the imagination to stage things like that.


Part of it is also the MF camera. That is a whole 'nother ball of wax in terms of captured "look". If money wasn't an object - even used, mechanical ones are about $9K...

@Julie - it's always good to look at other people's work. I know surrealism is not everyone's cup of tea, but it inspires me to try to think OOB. How other people use their imagination is fascinating to me. As for the pp'g, you will likely learn much of it here on DPC.


According to the man himself, Oprisco uses inexpensive medium format FILM cameras, Kiev 6C and Kiev88, both of which are available used for relatively cheap. (A Kiev6C with lens is typically less than $500, I've seen Kiev88's in the $150-200 range). He also says that his post processing is limited to color correction and dust removal.

Message edited by author 2014-05-23 11:46:40.
05/23/2014 09:28:11 AM · #45
Surrealism is dead. Pack up the fish.
05/24/2014 04:10:22 PM · #46
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

MF = Medium Format: like the Phase One cameras nowadays, like the film Hasselblads and Mamiya 645s...


I was thinking that until I saw $9K for a mechanical one. My Hassleblad with lends, metered finder, and two backs, was only $500. My Mamiya 645 Super, with three lenses, power winder, and AE finder was even less.

Digital MF, on the other hand, is a whole different critter. Full frame digital is rich enough for my blood...
05/24/2014 04:13:36 PM · #47
Originally posted by posthumous:

Surrealism is dead. Pack up the fish.

Oh. Must I remove them from my fishnets?
05/24/2014 09:56:31 PM · #48
Originally posted by skewsme:

Originally posted by posthumous:

Surrealism is dead. Pack up the fish.

Oh. Must I remove them from my fishnets?


Now, that is a surreal visual... ;-)
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