Photography Deluxe : 25 Precious Photographs from the Web
This guest post was submitted by Martin Gommel from the German Blog KWERFELDEIN (flickr).
With these 25 unusual, inspiring and fresh photographs I would like to encourage you again to get out with your digital camera and experiment with your photography. In those times when you have little or no motivation, powerful images can trigger a desire to improve your photography – that’s what this post is all about!
Last week I took out some extra time to find really untypical and special photographs. And I encourage you to sit down, drink some tea and let those photographs find their way to you heart.
1. in the field – hkvam
2. 10 Knots – Garry’
3. Edge of the Earth – zackschnepf
4. light test – ian niles galbraith
5. hope – von Ragesh Vasudevan
6. A GOAT-View – Bēn
7. the gift of the moose – Steve took it
8. rk – marekogien
9. I want to be where the sun – von neloqua
10. Falling from the Sky – chrisb78
11. Tulip Festival – rasone
12. Each war is different … – kevindooley
13. … – Edyta.
14. Under the Erasmus Bridge – Joep R.
15. Aliens Entered … – konderminator
16. Flippers Final – Kellen!
17. Twelve Apostles Panorama – Simon Waterhouse
18. The Science Of Speed – drew + wilson + photography
19. Endure – Tree_Elf_
20. Yodell …. – bocavermelha-l.b.
21. Top of the world – infracolor
22. – tiavir
23. Sports school – nataliebehring.com
24. Hey Tina ! .. – konderminator
25. sunset road – hkvam
Which one of those photographs did you like most ? Glad to receive your opinion!
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35 Responses to “Photography Deluxe : 25 Precious Photographs from the Web” - Add Yours
June 12th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Very Nice set! inspiring, thanks for sharing =)
June 12th, 2008 at 1:10 am
wonderful photos!!
June 12th, 2008 at 1:21 am
I did like number 5 and I think that number 14 would be great it it wouldn’t have been enhanced with DRI.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:34 am
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
June 12th, 2008 at 3:28 am
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.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:08 am
They are all so good! My vote goes to 10 Knots
June 12th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Not bad, not bad at all. Especially the baseball one.
–Klaidas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaidas/
June 12th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Wow, where do you gotta live to get shots like these?
June 12th, 2008 at 5:22 am
nice
June 12th, 2008 at 5:23 am
#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
June 12th, 2008 at 5:46 am
The second picture with guy on the cliff and the mountain in the distance is amazing.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Thanks so much for featuring me in this!
June 12th, 2008 at 7:28 am
I really like the colors and lines in Tulip Festival
June 12th, 2008 at 8:06 am
wow…..stunning.especially the surfing,mount fuji etc etc :D
June 12th, 2008 at 8:19 am
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!
June 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I’m floored. This is what it’s all about. Thanx for the inspiration! K
June 12th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
amazing photos and talent – #3 edge of the earth
June 12th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
hmmm
nr 13, not digital ;)
June 12th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
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)
June 13th, 2008 at 3:13 am
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!!!
June 13th, 2008 at 3:28 am
Does #24 = Broken Expensive Camera Lens, or Trip To Hospital.. :)
(I would like to know how that shot was actually done, real or otherwise)
June 13th, 2008 at 3:53 am
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.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:13 am
“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/
June 13th, 2008 at 5:23 am
I love the 10 knots sky, clouds and windsurfer Wow.
That one moves me!
Chris
June 13th, 2008 at 8:23 am
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!
June 13th, 2008 at 9:40 am
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!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Amazing photoshop editing in these pictures. Well done.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
#4 is my absolute favorite of this set. That so much is a style I would love to grow into.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
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?
June 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
WOW! Beautiful shots and Brilliant colors
Thanks
June 17th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Some great shots! Some good Photoshop skills used on some of them.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:00 am
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
June 29th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
OK, so where are the photographs? Surely these have nothing to do with photography.
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
WoW!!!! Amazing. Thanx a lot
August 7th, 2008 at 1:05 am
My favourite was #5.
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