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http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php...ticle&sid=7301

Pretty...but, is that art? Discuss...

Dan Martin

that's art.

Billiam

Hell yes that's art! Composition, use of light, color & texture contrasts, etc...

I love the first comment on the page.

"...although they look like they were heavily photoshopped to bring out the contrast and colors..."

I bet they weren't that hevily modified. My guess, a 6x7 or 4x5 shooting Velvia.

Dan Martin

People have no clue how good a view camera loaded with velvia can be. Check out the gallery at Ebony camera for some examples: http://www.ebonycamera.com/gal.html


<wants to own an Ebony RW45E someday >

waTSX

Those are some amazing images. Looks to me like some fairly heavy (and very good) post processing was applied, too.

waTSX

Wow. Looking at those pics even closer, the color, comp and wide array of textures is truly amazing. Great use of side and back lighting as well. I know view cams are amazing, but even Ansel Adams was known as much for his darkroom work as his shooting. I like to see some of this photographers shooting data.

The green in the fifth one from the top really pops. That is a beautifully composed photo.

Makes me want to visit China.

ChodTheWacko

You might be right, but it does look like someone cranked the saturation up to 20 on some of those pictures.

saiko_cl_duck

wow, those are amazing. I would say art, that was not just point and shoot style photography.