Long before the invention of Photoshop, artists were creating trippy fake images. The techniques used to create these images include multiple exposure on a single negative, and printing a single print from multiple negatives. In the 1960s, Jerry Uelsmann revolutionized the art of photography by manually blending negatives in the dark room to produce surreal landscapes.
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Crooked Forest, Poland
This grove of approximately 400 pines was planted around 1930, when its location was still within the German province of Pomerania. It is generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not currently known.
Hossein Zare is a self-learned photographer based in Bushehr, Iran. Hossein captures beautiful landscape or cityscape pictures, and then creates stunning surrealistic artworks using photo manipulations in which his subjects defy gravity.
Hungarian self-taught photographer and visual artist Noell S. Oszvald presents a portfolio of powerful self-portraits. So dark and sophisticated imagery. She creates black and white pictures only, as she says she finds colors distracting.
Landscape Photography by San Francisco Bay area based photographer Dmitri Fomin. Dmitri likes to shoot landscapes and capture the sacred moments of beautiful light. He uses his canon gear and a variety of filters from B+W, Hitech, Hoya with Lee’s 100mm square filter holder with a Manfrotto CF tripod and Gitzo ball head.
Oliver Delgado shoots rows of trees in such a way they create outstanding visual illusions of endless tunnels. The photos are genuine and not digital montages. As Delgado said, “All images are real. I only adjusted levels in Lightroom.”
Iranian photographer Hossein Zare has created this impressive series of minimalist black and white photography that symbolize our journey through life.
Matthew Brodie is a London based fashion, beauty and still-life editorial and advertising photographer, working in fashion, music, film and celebrities.
Photographer Grant Simon Rogers photographing leafless trees in winter from the bottom. Majestic images!
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