Feeling of emptiness

very good PS

EXCELLENT!!!.

 

Regards

You said right! Good point. Interesting idea!

Amazing work. And here I've been fooling myself into thinking I was pretty well versed in Photoshop. I can't imagine the steps involved in this, or how long it would take. Really just beautiful and thoughtful.

I have to agree with the other person who did not care for this image. While impressive as a technical accomplishment, this image itself does absolutely nothing for me. I applaud Ben's PS wizardry, but the surreal photomontages that are frequently heralded on PN consistently put me off. There is nothing here I can relate to. Thus, I am not drawn into the image. This looks like the kind of thing you might purchase from the poster shop at the mall and hang in a shiny black plastic frame in your teenager's bedroom. If you want to portray emptiness, I think you could probably come up with a way of doing it in the studio or in the field.

 

Again, just my dissenting opinion.

 

jeff

I too will disagree with Steve Bingham. The fact that several photos were used (for backgrounds and such) and "photo"-shop (Hmmm.... I wonder if this same argument would have been used had Adobe product had been called, say, "Mr. Proper"...) was employed doesn't turn this work into a "photo-graph". Nobody is cuestioning neither the superb technical skills of the author (which are obvious) nor his talent and creativity which are also evident.

 

Again, this is is (or at least should be) a photographic forum. As it has been suggested maybe a sister forum for graphical design artist should be created. THis is NOT photography by any stretch of the imagination.

 

PD- Incidentally, congratulations Ben Goossens for such excellent art work.

EXCELLENT ONCE AGAIN.Best regards.

While I commend Ben for his beautiful artwork, I would never call it photography. Instead, he's a conceptual artist who uses the camera as his tool. In which case I strongly disagree with Steve, and I think he has just about everything backwards.

 

"Ben's work follows closely those famous PHOTOGRAPHERS that came before him: Jerry Uelsmann, Duane Michaels, Robert Heinecken, and currently Misha Gordin. And many others."

 

The difference between Ben and those famous photographers is that they print straight film to create their images, where Ben takes the images and completely changes them. Once you start warping things, adding special filters, colorizing, etc, the photograph becomes graphic art. Sure, it started with a few photographs, but it turned into something completely different. (Not saying thats a bad thing)

 

"As Ansel Adams once said, 'Photographs are made, not taken.'"

 

Ansel Adams also spent hours waiting for the sun to light his subject. In my opinion, you've taken this quote out of context.

 

"Should photo.net be dedicated solely to snapshots and straight photography? I think not! How many sunset pictures can you look at before they all start blending together - and you can't remember one from the other? On the other hand, you will remember some of Ben's work should you see it again. Strong composition combined with strong emotional content. Good tonality. Interesting and unusual concepts. Unique creativity."

 

Yes, if I see Ben's work again I will likely remember it. But the same holds true to any straight photographer with a unique vision or image. I can't believe a photographer would follow straight photography with sunset images - that's not what we all do! Many of us can still have unique visions without the use of photoshop.

Just fantastic! Can't agree more on all the positive feedback -yes, I am also missing the other two eggs???

 

I love the texture and the backgrounds