Photo by Benjamin Goss
Karlstad, Sweden’s Benjamin Goss uses mostly medium- and large-format (8×10!!) cameras to make these amazing photos.
Every Photoshop grunge/worn/vintage filter/brush/action I’ve ever used, he’s doing it in real life, with a physical photograph, and the results speak for themselves. Photos like these are why those Photoshop effects exist in the first place. Gorgeous work.
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Photo by Benjamin Goss
Much, much more at his portfolio and Flickr page, and you can buy his book INTUITION at Blurb.
nicole said…
these are so quiet and hypnotic, beautiful.
thanks for sharing
…on July 3, 2009 at 1:40 am
Patrick said…
I discovered his work very recently too, its utterly amazing.
…on July 3, 2009 at 3:38 pm
scott said…
“Karlstad, Sweden’s Benjamin Goss uses mostly medium- and large-format (8×10!!) cameras to make these amazing photos.
Every Photoshop grunge/worn/vintage filter/brush/action I’ve ever used, he’s doing it in real life, with a physical photograph, and the results speak for themselves. Photos like these are why those Photoshop effects exist in the first place. Gorgeous work.”
Buy a freaking view camera and do this for real! Just say no to fake PS actions and filters. Just say no to fake alt process frames and fake tilt-shift effects. Your only cheating your viewer and depriving yourself of an actual photographic experience. Do it – Don’t fake it!
…on October 7, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Alexe said…
truly one of my favourite photographer ever!!
…on November 1, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Nicola said…
Interesting works.
They are spontaneous even though there is a research behind some of them.
Totally agree with Scott, you are only cheating yourself!
…on November 30, 2009 at 1:37 am
Marcus said…
“Just say no to fake PS actions and filters. Just say no to fake alt process frames and fake tilt-shift effects. Your only cheating your viewer and depriving yourself of an actual photographic experience”
Ah, yes, the old “You should only like what I like! Only things that I call art are art!” and so on….
I quite enjoy image manipulation. I enjoy doing “tricks” and altering images. Cameras are just a tool for me, with the real art happening later.
You might disagree. You might see unaltered pictures as the only true photographic art. That’s fine with me – I’m just so freaking tired of all these people showing up as soon as photoshop or similar things are mentioned, shouting their hearts out about how it’s “fake”, “wrong”, “not real” and so on… Always expressing themselves as if those who enjoy anything other than pure photography are bad, bad people who should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
I like mixed medium art, and in almost all cases it’s accepted. An oil painting painted on a statue? Interesting! Origami folded out of unusual materials, blending patterns of the materials with the shapes of the origami? Lovely! A photograph altered through the use of digital art techniques? Cheat! Fake! Stupid! Not real! Not the way to do it!
Or the most typical: “What? That’s not art. He just used a computer!” As if a computer magically does everything for you. (Well, of course it can do a lot automatically, but if you want to do art of good quality with a computer you have to work for it, just like everything else).
I’m just tired of photography purists who think that they know The Only Right Way.
…on April 1, 2010 at 12:51 pm