lightbrush kids "Flora"

Your folders are just unbelievable. So much magic, such a wonderful painterly feel with a bit of Jeronimus Bosh here and there and so many romantic inspirations besides that... I really love what you do very much as I like what Emil Schildt does, and a bit for the same kind of reasons...

What's very specific to your work, though, is this wonderland of love obvious to me in almost every single image you uploaded so far...

This particular image is the most touching one for me, and it happens to be very much simpler in its set-up than in many others, but I just feel everything is absolutely right here. In every corner of the frame.

The facial expressions are just so real that I'd bet these 2 models are mother and daughter - possibly your wife and your daughter... and they are just splendid - touching to an extent, that I've rarely seen in a posed image...

Then, the composition is equally perfect...

Then, the poses are so delicate and romantic and realistic at the same time - what a paradox, I know...-) It's a real treat for the eye to see details all around the frame... the little girl's right legs and arms and face, with this delicate pose suggesting how pure she is... The mother's body language like she was called to see the flower... It's just all so right...!

Finally, the light... What a splendid light all over your pages, but especially wonderful here, in my opinion... We can see just enough details in the leaves, in the walls, as well as in the highlights - the mother's dress, the flower...

I'll stop here, but I could go on for ages and watch this for a lifetime every day...

Please do not read the slightly inferior ratings on other works of yours for what they are... I just used them to indicate my preferences about your work - which is most certainly the only thing you are ever going to learn from me...:-))

As for me, I'd like to learn a bit more about your light source and how to use it if it is possible to hear a few details...

I've always loved lightbrushing technique and always wanted to do lots of things with it, but I paid quite a bit for a broncolor lightbrush, and I never came close to light anything properly with it, and resources about this technique and this particular lightbrush I have are actually very limited... and no books available on lightbrushing where I live in Malaysia...

Would you maybe be able to indicate a book to me and possibly a publishing house I could order it from...?

I'll be hoping to learn something important for me today. And I've seen something very important, too. So I'll thank you for both.

Best regards.

Thanks,Thanks,Thanks Marc,Ben,Anna... . I`m proud of your compliments. I`ll keep on posting more, but the prepairings of those photos mostly took a fiew weeks. I`m glad to have a lot of good friends help me to build pieces of scenery, or paint the landscapes on the background material... and the water...-it isn`t real.- I used a transparent material and before I paint it with light, I twist the lens out of focus and while I put(very slowly)the light on it I move it up and down. If you want to try such things, I hope I can give you enough support(sometimes I have problems to find the right words in English). I`ll prepare a support i-net site for lightbrush, where I`ll write about the special effects with various lights and show some photos of the prepairings. You will reach it over the hidden link at the art-of-visions site. If somebody else is interested in this, send me your email adress and I`ll give you a short message when the site is ready and how you can find it.

I'd be glad to read all this, for sure... Again, congratulations for this really spendid image. Best regards.

This is simply the most beautiful peice I've seen on this site. Not only is the composure perfect but the scene it'self is very touching. Thank you so much for sharing.

I don't know, the amazing part about this is the way it looks like a painting. But my initial reaction to the actual image is that it somehow looks just like those awful saccharine Thomas Kinkade prints.

More of this lightbrushing stuff. Very pretty, and I commend the artist on his hard work. But it just does not do it for me. Many of them begin to remind me of those blacklight velvet posters of the 70's. Just too garish.

Sensuous vision, deft touch; echoing tenderness, benevolence, love

 

It's an unusual look you're achieving. Interesting how it makes me think of Renaissance paintings and PhotoShop creations at the same time, but clearly isn't either. Nice composition, too. I'd love to see the actual print of this or any of your other work.

 

I'm guessing that you've seen the painting with light of emil schildt. If not, you should have a look -- he uses it to achieve a very different, but equally compelling effect.

 

Emil's photo.net page:

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=526277

 

And, yes, please notify me when you put your painting-with-light tutorial on your site. I'd love to learn more about how you do it.

This image is sublime. Just one comment. The child is placed in such a position as to appear very large in comparison with the adult, which I find a little weird. And have you noticed how strange both of her feet are - one is like a baby elephant and the other lke a duck! However, it does not take away however from the brilliance of this picture.

I think the elves read way too much into it, but nonetheless it's an exceptional piece of work. I'm in awe of the whole series, truly outstanding. Beautiful family too, by the way.

 

How'd you get the girl to fly in those other shots?

A great photo, like a painting. A great study of light and a romantic feeling.

congratulatons Jörg, this photograph has deserved to be POW. Much has been said already about the magic and beauty of this photo. If only a few people have seen or rated it before, then it's because there are just too many images on this site. Great work.

Yes, rating abuse is a problem, but thanks God selection of POW on Photo.net is not based on ratings. That's why host presents small but abundant argument for the choice. It's chosen not because it rated but because it's good.

 

As for the image - I like, I like it very much. Why? Read all positive comments above.

Best,

David

 

I don't think this is one of Jorg's best images. It was picked in part because of the sentimental subject matter which ranks pretty low on my priority list. I generally respond to light and composition, then subject.

 

I very much enjoy this style of lighting, but for me, the colorcast of the light source overwhelms the image. Compare this to http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=986942 which is the first image I saw. What struck me immediately was that while the technique was quite similar to Emil's, it was in color! Look at the greens in the leaves and the blues in some of his other images and note how the color cast is not quite so evident.

 

The high marks are for the subject matter and for the unique light painting technique (color), but don't we owe it to the photographer to tell him which of his images we think are more successful and why? And shouldn't technical analysis be at least as important on this site as a sentimental response to subject matter?

 

I would be interested in knowing which images Jorg likes best and why.

lovely.....Looks like a painting in a museum. Bravo

Great image. Not much to add.

Interesting comment, Carl... I'm not too sure in what sense the color cast is a problem here. It can be a problem indeed, imo, for a realistic image, but this is obviously what this POW is not... Painters are allowed to choose their colors. The warm tones, for me, add to the scene here... Just another way to look at it, of course...

Besides that, the picture Carl indicated is truly excellent as well, but to me, the poses and the styling here are cleverer than in the other shot. Both are excellent anyway, and many of Jorg's pictures would probably deserve to be selected...

Àlmost everything has been said and I agree totally. I like you're portfolio very much. Terrific photo build up like a painting. Great scenery, colours, models (did they pose for 5 whole minutes like that ?). I'm looking forward to new work. Very impressive !

Simply magnificent. Truly deserving to be POW. Your portfolio is a delight to the senses.

James has already said the childs left foot looks like a duck foot and her right left foot looks like it belongs to a baby elephant. I noticed this too before reading his comments. Also, her right heel is raised high above her toes, which are sitting flat, and look to have a lot of pressure on them. This (along with the lighting) adds to her whole right lower leg looking bent and deformed. Her ducky looking left foot also apears to be caused by the same issue of her heel being high above her flat sitting toes, which are under some pressure (making them splay). This makes her lower left leg look thick and unnatural, void of the delicate ankle. The "greens" covering the portion of where her ankle should be identifiable look more like a cover-up of the missing feature than something that adds to the picture. The lighting on her arms is lovely, and the same effect on her normally positioned legs/feet, with less cluttered "greens" over them, would add to the picture greatly IMO. Either that or use more greens over her lower legs to hide the above details and give a greater impression of the girl growing out of (or being a part of) the plant/flowers.

 

This lightbrush technique has created an image that has excellent saturation and moody color, and the softness, but not blur, in focus adds a romantic touch. Well done.

Looking at this photograph I am reminded of Baroque era oils, specifically Caravaggio...

Composition is very strong, I am very impressed.

 

Being a novice portrait photographer(and formerly a portrait painter) I would love to get some detailed information on your lighting techniques. Who new that a Kiev 88 could produce such an image, which leads me to question, was this photo somehow retouched or colored? Thanks for any reply.

Caravaggio and Rembrantd would have been proud of your work! Let me know when your site is ready!

Stunning. This portfolio is so out of step with modern tastes for the year 2002--but still informed by modern sensibility and technique--that it's utterly original. Gorgeous color, impeccable lighting, lovely set design and art direction. Whee!

 

I feel a little funny asking, but is the deformed leg a fabricated piece of the composition, a byproduct of some unintended movement during the exposure, or is it real? I've noticed elongated and slightly distorted limbs in a couple of these.

I think this is a piece that belongs less of a photographic aesthetic and more of an art aesthetic, and as such I have great difficulty in judging it on any level beyond the surface. While fully appreciating the photographer's skill and work in assembling this piece, it just doesn't resonate with me as a photograph. A wall hanging, maybe. It is not Kincaid kitsch, as commented on above, but I think its impact lies almost exclusively in the richness of the color and the tilt of the models' heads toward each other. The fact that this was captured by a photographic process seems almost incidental, and for that I have trouble with the choice of this as a POW.

To take this picture, Jorg already has something in his mind. Everything was staged in advance. What is wrong with that? Nothing wrong, and everything is right. This piece of work is very excellent and more photography than creative photography using photoshop. Bravo-bravo-bravo.

 

Jeffrey Anjasmara