gavin oneill wrote:

my hat is off to him simply coz he can be on his computer for 2000 hours without even having an MM account!? :-/

Probably BECAUSE he has no MM account.

DarioImpiniPhotography wrote:
Probably BECAUSE he has no MM account.

Because he is a painter not a photographer or a model.

~Krista~ wrote:

Well, I find the 50mm 1.8 great in the sense that if I took that picture with the aperture wide open you would see like one point in sharp focus and the rest in blur. And not photoshop gaussian blur. Real in camera blur. Okay, now I am making myself hot.

Wow... You get hot geeking out about photography. I think I'm in love!

 

Julie Saad wrote:
The only thing that bothers me is that, it is art that requires an explanation before most people will go, "oh....wow."
You know what I mean?

I know exactly what you mean... it just looks like a really clean, crisp picture if you don't know the story. Then when you hear the story behind it...your blown away... but just browsing or at a glace you see it and say "that's a clean shot."

Jean-Philippe Martin wrote:

Because he is a painter not a photographer or a model.

He could easily create a photographer account and most people would not be able to tell the difference

Mark Heaps wrote:
I have actually met and spent some time with Bert at a few seminars and different events over at Adobe and local studio.  He actuall specializes in photo realism in photoshop for areas that you cannot get permission to take the photo.  Now he does it just to impress other photoshop people, by wowing them he sells the crap out of his books.  Plus he has his own spot on TechTV, plus he used to work at Industrial Light and Magic, and he left because he was getting bored...BORED!

He worked on many famous movies, like Start Trek Generations, and Spawn, as well as many others.

he's a hell of a nice guy and if you ever want to learn how to create realism so your work doesn't have that "photoshopped look" he could teach you how to paint photorealism on your photos.

Thank you, Mark, because this is really what it's about: computer-generated art, including art derived from photography and made to resemble photographic product.

Here's a proposed simple division for the traditional and illustrator-photographers.

Step One Photography:  Concerned with concept-through-post fidelity to subjects extant in one image recording at a time.  Fielded photojournalists, for example, always practice "Step One Photography".

Step Two Photography: Concerned with interpretation and additional conceptual and illustrative development of any Step One Photograph, compilation, or series.

Step One:



Step Two: