STUNNING Photography

This gallery was linked to a few months back. But yes agreed truely stunning jaw dropping images!
 
Ahhh sorry for the 'relink' I'm old and slow my brain responds differently :)
 
fallen_mathi said:
considering their shot on medium format film, 'over processed' seems a strange thing...
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Film or not they can be over processed.

There are dark room techniques for that can be used to change the way an image looks, granted I couldn't tell you them but they do exist. Also, they have obviously been put on to a digital format in order to put them online which means they could still have been subject to PP.

It's personal opinion at the end of the day and I've always felt that a lot of them seem too OTT in the way they look.
 
It's obvious that a lot of blur has been added to some of the shots - it would be better IMHO if it wasn't quite so obvious. Great set though, but then what do I know! =)
 
Apparently the blur he gets is due to NOT having the lens connected the his 6x7 camera and messing around with the angle he holds it at.. a little like a View camera.. but on a 6x7..

Iv never seen any of his stuff before, but its awesome! i must get another MF kit!! lol..
 
Awesome images, clean and powerful but I agree they do appear a little over processed be it in the darkroom or the lightroom if they have been digitised post shooting.

John www.phototuition.net
 
nice
 
Didn't know which of the two threads currently on the go about this photographer's collection to contribute to, so I thought I'd go for the thread that was started first! :D

I agree that Nick Brandt's photos are lovely in many ways, and that they demonstrate a huge amount of dedication as well as technical skill from conception to processed output, not to mention, of course, an eye for his subject. But I have to agree with a few others by saying they're a bit overcooked for my liking, and the whole endeavour strikes me as being hugely commercial before anything else. The images here look like the fine art photography equivalent of an Athena poster, and Mr Brandt is clearly mining a very lucrative seam; I'm sure the worldwide market for aesthetically pleasing yet easy-on-the-eye safari images such as these is huuuuge! For me there's something about some of the tilt&shift monochrome efforts that's reminiscent of the sort of pictures that would accompany a bunch of late-19th Century colonialists on their return trip from an expedition to the heart of the 'Dark Continent', where they'd been busy bagging themselves a mounted rhino head and a tiger skin rug or two ;)

I guess there are plenty of folk who would lap that up, even at 12,000 euros a pop! :lol:
 
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