Absolutely beautiful photography inspiration from Ásmundur Þorkelsson
Posted by Diana Eftaiha on Nov 2, 2010 in Inspiration Fix | 10 comments
“Once I received a comment from puzzled amateur photographer who couldn’t figure out what point I was trying to make with my images. And why no people couldn’t be found in my images.
I know many of my images may look unreal to "orthodox" photographers. But that’s exactly what I’m interested in. How can a digitally captured scene be manipulated and processed in the digital darkroom to create something that evokes a sense of exaggerated sentimentality or becomes melodramatic beyond what any reasonable person might have experienced at the time and place of capture. The product is basically kitsch.
One of my favorite painters Odd Nerdrum is a self proclaimed kitsch painter and he, as I understand it, denies that his work has anything to do with art. Of course I’m not comparing my work to that of this Norwegian prodigy. I’m merely trying to justify that I like making images that may look unreal and even weird as well as the fact that I have limited integrity as a photographer. My images are not factual evidence of my surrounding.
It’s easy to take such liberties with inanimate subjects like houses, bulldozers and waterfalls. But when you start manipulating images of people one will either have to limit the manipulation or be prepared to offend the model and it’s friends and family. I hope someday to build up courage to take portraits and manipulate them beyond recognition and hopefully come up with something that pleases my eyes.” ~ Ásmundur E. Þorkelsson
For more beautiful photography inspiration from Ásmundur Þorkelsson, please check out his flickr photostream right here.
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I love the one on the cover the big satellite dish. how do you do those? do you like choose a long exposure and just intentionally shake your cam or is there more to it than that?
I like his work! Very punchy and powerful. Tastefully HDR’d.
lovely images – most of them look like a snowy Dungeness – http://markblundell.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Dungeness/
Here’s the link i meant to send up there
http://markblundell.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Dungeness/G0000yjVLAOrq4Bs/I0000zmc0UZL46FY
Love yours as well!
Wow yours are stunning as well. Diana should really feature your work too!
Cool photos. How did you make shaky monochromes? amazing!
For the shaky mono’s you just need an nd filter and then set the shutter speed to a few seconds and shake. Every now and then something pleasing will come out of it.
Þetta eru alveg ógeðslega flottar myndir, Ási! Þú ert mikill snillingur.
I love the satellite dish shot as well. It’s my favourite