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When I Stopped Using Photoshop Manipulation, I Found The Beauty Of Fine Art Photography
My name is Michal Zahornacky and I am a fine art photographer from Slovakia. I bought my first camera in 2011. I am self-taught.
My biggest passion is to create Fine Art and conceptual photography. By viewing these photographs you find yourself thinking about the realness of the photography and about the post process.
In my last projects, I found the beauty and passion of creating photography using no photoshop manipulation. I enjoy preparing real-time scenes. For me, the challenge to create pure Fine Art Photography picture - to be able to show and express my ideas this way - is the biggest accomplishment I have achieved.
The challenge of thinking and creating scenes is very big, difficult, but beautiful the same way. To me, the value of the photograph and my work is then much higher. The preparation phase is long as the objects in my photographs are real and made just to take the picture.
In my collection, you can find minimalistic pictures of people, nature, and moody weather.
More info: Facebook | michalzahornacky.com
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Follow Your Dreams
Fall
All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey ... California dreamin'
Black Day
Lines
Learn To Fly
Fog Love
In Hug
Last One
Inner World
Remember The Others
Behind Us
In Love
Virginity
Unified
Based on the range of tones in these photos, unless they were shot on film and adjusted while printing, I find it very hard to believe they were not processed through image editing software to adjust the color and value range. Unedited photos straight out of a camera simply do not come out like that. I understand if you mean no photoshop to alter the composition or subjects, but the claim of "no photoshop" seems inaccurate in that case.
Beautiful photos, each one. I had the same thought as Irena, so it might help to add a note about your distinction between Photoshop manipulation and color/contrast processing in the text of the article.
That being said, your photos are beautiful and meaningful and I truly admire them.
These are so beautiful! They are filled with thought, and they are really quite interesting. Do you have a certain inspiration?
Better late than never. I am an amteur photographer, for almost 20 years. Started with the regular b&w darkroom, today i'm shooting on digital. However, whenever i see an excessively edited image (sorry, i do not call them photographs), i practically pity the owner and the viewers. Image editing software is good for commercial purposes. They provide short editing periods, fast processing and they help the industry survive (in a way). But for us, software shall not be used except processing the .raw files into jpegs, with necessary tweaks. The nature of photography is "to document what is seen at a given moment". Excessive editing just kills this and that is not called photography. That's advanced image editing. So, congrats on your decision. Hope you will not go back to software world, where everything looks, feels and tastes like lastic.
It's hard to find pictures that's not photoshopped in this technology era but you did these amazing non-photoshopped pictures! Great job!
Based on the range of tones in these photos, unless they were shot on film and adjusted while printing, I find it very hard to believe they were not processed through image editing software to adjust the color and value range. Unedited photos straight out of a camera simply do not come out like that. I understand if you mean no photoshop to alter the composition or subjects, but the claim of "no photoshop" seems inaccurate in that case.
Beautiful photos, each one. I had the same thought as Irena, so it might help to add a note about your distinction between Photoshop manipulation and color/contrast processing in the text of the article.
That being said, your photos are beautiful and meaningful and I truly admire them.
These are so beautiful! They are filled with thought, and they are really quite interesting. Do you have a certain inspiration?
Better late than never. I am an amteur photographer, for almost 20 years. Started with the regular b&w darkroom, today i'm shooting on digital. However, whenever i see an excessively edited image (sorry, i do not call them photographs), i practically pity the owner and the viewers. Image editing software is good for commercial purposes. They provide short editing periods, fast processing and they help the industry survive (in a way). But for us, software shall not be used except processing the .raw files into jpegs, with necessary tweaks. The nature of photography is "to document what is seen at a given moment". Excessive editing just kills this and that is not called photography. That's advanced image editing. So, congrats on your decision. Hope you will not go back to software world, where everything looks, feels and tastes like lastic.
It's hard to find pictures that's not photoshopped in this technology era but you did these amazing non-photoshopped pictures! Great job!