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35 Responses to “Photography Deluxe : 25 Precious Photographs from the Web”

• Eric Says:

  Very Nice set! inspiring, thanks for sharing =)

• Marcio Eugenio Says:

  wonderful photos!!

• Torax Says:

  I did like number 5 and I think that number 14 would be great it it wouldn’t have been enhanced with DRI.

• Raymond Chan Says:

  I LOVE light test and Hey Tina!. They’re just so brilliantly captured and the others are just such great shots too. Would love to capture something like that too one day. Thanks for the great post!

  Raymond Chan

• Phil Says:

  What a collection. Just makes me want to take off work and work with my camera. Love them all. ‘Hey, Tina’ is really a fun shot. I, also, love ‘Light Test’, which could be an album cover. All of them are wonderful.

• AC Says:

  They are all so good! My vote goes to 10 Knots

• Klaidas Says:

  Not bad, not bad at all. Especially the baseball one.

  –Klaidas
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaidas/

• Bakari Says:

  Wow, where do you gotta live to get shots like these?

• xlt Says:

  nice

• KD Says:

  #23 - look at the kid on the right. That’s unreal! I didn’t know kids that young could (or should) have that kind of muscle definition

• Wyche128 Says:

  The second picture with guy on the cliff and the mountain in the distance is amazing.

• Drew Wilson Says:

  Thanks so much for featuring me in this!

• Stacie Morris Says:

  I really like the colors and lines in Tulip Festival

• Patrick Says:

  wow…..stunning.especially the surfing,mount fuji etc etc :D

• pikwol Says:

  no 22: muscle definition - The chip in the kid on the right’s left arm make me suspect a photoshop-job - the muscle definition is trickery for sure!
  Most of thgese are not exceptional photos, but exceptional editing which makes it more graphic arts than photography.
  If it is for real, the golf shot (23) would be one of the greatest sports action shots ever shot on a digital camera!

• Kent Says:

  I’m floored. This is what it’s all about. Thanx for the inspiration! K

• Trish Says:

  amazing photos and talent - #3 edge of the earth

• edyta Says:

  hmmm
  nr 13, not digital ;)

• Martha Says:

  Nice shots, but I agree with pikwol, someone has amazing photoshop skills. I prefer real photography, and there are a few in this post that are real, I’m a little old school. I think that photoshop is great as long as you don’t go overboard and loose the authenticity of the actual shot.

  I think there are a lot of great photographers out there, but I also think there are a lot of sorry photographers who are experts at photoshop, I want to be in the first group….(not that I will ever get there, maybe in my dreams)

• eleni Says:

  A breathtaking collection of marvelous shots. I am speechless. I especially appreciated the “Light Test”. Excellently composed self portrait and amazing mood!!!!
  Congrats to all of them!!!

• javadog Says:

  Does #24 = Broken Expensive Camera Lens, or Trip To Hospital.. :)

  (I would like to know how that shot was actually done, real or otherwise)

• Larry Says:

  I did enjoy seeing all the photo’s some I’ve seen before and some I have not. But there are three that I really like:
  1st is #3. Edge of the Earth , A great open feeling when I look at it.
  2nd is 7. the gift of the moose,
  3rd is 25. sunset road, just a nice warm feeling at the end of the road.

• rivetgeek Says:

  “The gulfball is suspended on a fishing line in front of the camera. It was a stormy day. So I had to shoot 5 or 6 films for getting one image with the ball in the center position AND a light reflection on the golf club.”

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/konderminator/1352838736/

• Chris Brown Says:

  I love the 10 knots sky, clouds and windsurfer Wow.
  That one moves me!
  Chris

• Sarah Says:

  I love the tulips and the sunset sail, but the others are really incredible too. I can’t imagine being anywhere to get a shot that awesome!! Landscapes are a little harder to come by here. *L* Thanks for getting this set together, it’s amazing!

• Nann Hudson Says:

  One of the things that I love about this site is that the novice can get inspiration to get out there and try something new. The set was lovely…10 Knots the obvious favorite. But I thought that the “multiple exposure” progression of the guy on the basketball court was fun…I’ve been playing around with those since my son despises to be photographed but DOES love to jump off cliffs into the lake!

• Gerry Vrbensky Says:

  Amazing photoshop editing in these pictures. Well done.

• D. T. North Says:

  #4 is my absolute favorite of this set. That so much is a style I would love to grow into.

• Michael Young Says:

  Whoa, there !!!
  Hold on a minute !!
  What’s all this gushing uncritical praise?

  Almost without exception these are 25 stunning images, but photographs?
  They are great examples of digital manipulation.
  Only one comment above mentioned that.

  Where is the soul that’s at the heart of true photography?
  As opposed to examples of vapid but clever, ingenious but ultimately cynically empty, technical processing.
  Just as years ago creative artists with airbrushing equipment altered reality in images to match the desires of the viewer.
  Of course that is now done digitally, but should these skills be applied indiscriminately to every image to produce meaningless ‘best of’ lists?

  Have we as photographers - or would-be photographers - lost our sense of judgement, taste, appreciation, our recognition of reality?

  Or is it simply another indication of the dumbing down of our society, an “emperor’s clothes” attempt to ignore the real world by presenting everything in a blemish free format?

• Sony Alphah Says:

  WOW! Beautiful shots and Brilliant colors
  Thanks

• Greg B Says:

  Some great shots! Some good Photoshop skills used on some of them.

• Aneez Says:

  I gotta agree with Michael Young’s comments. Although these are great images, it looks as though the majority of them have been heavily ‘photoshopped’.

  The images above don’t inspire me to get my camera out, but it inspires me to spend more time improving my photo editing skills.

  Aneez

• Réka Says:

  OK, so where are the photographs? Surely these have nothing to do with photography.

• Rekha Says:

  WoW!!!! Amazing. Thanx a lot

• Kaylee Says:

  My favourite was #5.