Carsten Witte 1964 | German Fashion photographer

The Hamburg native has an extensive portfolio ranging from fashion, beauty, advertising and art. He specializes in black and white photography and believes that all his photo's hold a story. Carsten's unusual eye evokes that dynamic shot that is intriguing, even eerie in some of his work, yet his photos always seem to brilliantly capture the essence of beauty. His nude shots are all very artistic, and beautifully done.The Hamburg native has an extensive portfolio ranging from fashion, beauty, advertising and art. He specializes in black and white photography and believes that all his photo's hold a story. Carsten's unusual eye evokes that dynamic shot that is intriguing, even eerie in some of his work, yet his photos always seem to brilliantly capture the essence of beauty. His nude shots are all very artistic, and beautifully done.

Thomas Dodd | Visionary and PreRaphaelite inspired photographer

The artwork that Thomas Dodd creates is visionary in scope and dualistic in nature. Light and darkness, life and death, and beauty and horror exist side by side in his creations. Mythological and religious themes abound in his work; sometimes with a twisted tongue-in-cheek approach, and at others reverently paying homage to the Old Master traditions that influence his vision. Although his artwork resembles paintings, it is actually in the realm of photography, but Dodd's creations are much more than mere manipulated photos. There is an overall cohesiveness and attention to textures that one does not usually find in most digital art. His images have an organic feel that never looks assembled or computer-generated and he shuns the commonly used digital ''cut and paste'' cliches, preferring instead to asemble his scenery, costumes, and models at the time of principal photography. There are many layers to Dodd's work and his pieces can yield new interpretations upon multiple viewings. His symbolic and psychological approach to art is a truly unique and multi-faceted vision.

Fractalius | Il plugin artistico del digitale

A dare questo effetto artistico molto particolare alle nostre foto è il Fractalius, un plugin in grado di generare facilmente degli artwork - immagini digitali, sfondi e degli esotici giochi di luce sotto forma di frattali in poco tempo, con poche e semplici mosse. Il plugin, è in grado di lavorare sui bordi degli oggetti e sui colori per tirare fuori effetti molto caratteristici che vanno dall’uso dei colori pastello ed un tratto che sembra fatto a mano, fino a complessi disegni fatti con veloci e decisi tratti colore.
Questo plugin prende il nome dal frattale, un oggetto geometrico che si ripete nella sua struttura allo stesso modo su scale diverse, ovvero che non cambia aspetto anche se visto con una lente d'ingrandimento. Questa caratteristica è spesso chiamata auto similarità. Il termine frattale venne coniato nel 1975 da Benoît Mandelbrot, e deriva dal latino fractus -rotto, spezzato, così come il termine frazione; infatti le immagini frattali sono considerate dalla matematica oggetti di dimensione frazionaria.

Daniel Borris | Professional photographer | Dogs and Kittens Yoga

Ispirato dal mastino di un amico, che imitava il suo maestro di Yoga al mattino, il fotografo Daniel Borris ha creato il "Dogs Yoga", una full-color collezione di 45 diversi cani e cuccioli che fanno yoga in posizioni umani. Non preoccupatevi, nessun animale è stato ferito durante la realizzazione delle immagini, anzi, la loro estrema flessibilità è stata realizzata con dei trucchi digitali molto efficaci.

Patrick Le Hec'h | French photographic artists

The Hec'h Patrick began his academic training at the School of Graphic Art Corvisart Paris. On his release he worked briefly as an illustrator and graphic designer before accepting the artistic direction of a communications agency. Inspired by the romantic and surreal, is detected in its early creations of the atmosphere that are visionary painters: Giorgio De Chirico 1888-1978, Tanguy, Bocklin, Delvaux and René François Ghislain Magritte, 1898-1967. Invited to present his paintings at galleries renowned Parisian Avenue Matignon, rue du fg St Honore, at the Grand Palais, as well as Monte Carlo, Cannes, Palm Beach, Chicago or New York, his work now recognized as contained in number of private collections, earned him awards on the occasion of major arts events.

Worth1000 | Il sito dei concorsi per l'arte digitale ed il fotomontaggio

Worth1000 è un sito di manipolazioni di immagine e concorsi online. Venne aperto nel 2002, e ad oggi ospita più di 340.000 immagini uniche fra i suoi contest (i primi e più popolari) intitolati "Rejected Transformers", "Invisible World" e "Stupid Protests". Verso la metà del 2003, iniziò ad ospitare competizioni simili, ma indirizzate verso la fotografia, la redazione testi ed altri contenuti multimediali. Il sito fu disegnato da Avi Muchnick e Israel Derdik. Il primo gli diede il nome che ha dopo aver detto "a picture is worth a thousand words", in italiano "un'immagine vale più di mille parole". Il sito stesso è stato citato diverse volte, su svariati media: pubblicazioni, TV e radio. Inoltre Worth1000 e gli utenti hanno creato tre libri sulla manipolazione delle immagini "When Pancakes Go Bad", "I've Got a Human in my Throat" e "More than one way to skin a cat". Oltre ai contest sulle manipolazioni, sulla fotografia, e sull'editing dei testi, Worth1000 include contest sulla pittura, sulla scultura, sulla pixel art e sulla creazione di loghi aziendali (retribuiti in base alle esigenze dell'azienda richiedente). Il livello di Worth1000 raggiunto negli anni è molto alto, oserei dire che si tratta del sito con il livello tecnico/artistico, a contenuto libero più alto di quelli che conosco. Nonostante ciò è aperto a qualsiasi utenza, dai novellini agli esperti di editing digitale.

Pol Tergejst | Flame-shape digital painter | Fire Art

Pol Tergejst is an artist from Ekaterinburk, in Russia, who decided to play with fire, literally. He uses flame shapes to create some kind of flame-shape paintings, he composes different images of them. All this involves a lot of photographing.

Adam Martinakis 1972 | Digital artist

Born in Lubań, Poland in 1972. Since 1982 lives and works in Athens, Greece. Studied in T.E.I. Of Athens, Faculty of Interior Architecture, Decorative Arts and Industrial Design. Since 2000 has been working on digital arts: digital image, 3d animation, graphics, web design, video and multimedia. Since 2006 is teaching digital graphics on Hellenic American Educational Foundation, Athens College.

Lennette Newell | Naturalist fashion photographer

Naturalist fashion photographer Lennette Newell channels a lifelong passion for Earth’s biodiversity and the magical wonder of the natural world into compelling animal portraits that afford viewers an intimate glimpse of creatures large and small. Having grown up on the high plains of western Nebraska as the daughter of a veterinarian and cattleman, Lennette creates images that explore the innate connections between subject and photographer, the common ties between the world of humans and that of animals.
Newell’s black-and-white photographs are simultaneously stark in composition yet rich in detail. Again and again, the viewer comes face to face with animal subjects that display an unexpected emotionality that lends new insight into the inner lives of these creatures. As she explains, “This work is the result of my passion for the animal kingdom; it is a celebration of the unique spirit and character of each species. These images pay homage to our shared commonality”. Newell currently lives and works in northern California, where she is committed to fighting for environmental causes.

Bob Stroody | London | Digital landscapes

Sergey Shaposhnikov | Digital Art