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In many of the works of digital photographer Caras Lonut two constants are observed, on the one hand we see nature represented by different species, sometimes following a crude and stark pattern.

Wild animals that are treated as pets, almost always accompanied by children, in a journey where the dreamlike atmospheres describe a magical universe. In which nature is always omnipresent.

The other is his peculiar treatment of color, a nuance that he undoubtedly achieves thanks to the application of a variety of filters. With which he treats each image after the editing he does with photoshop (of which he is a consummate expert).

With which he achieves that the final composition of each piece has such a tenuous effect that evokes autumn afternoons that transmit serenity and invite to meditation. And that can remind us of some of the passages of Edgar Alan Poe's stories.

His imagination and his work are captivated by dreams and by the autumn and winter seasons, through which he analyzes the darker side of a subject's desires and dreams.

Born in Romania in February 1970, Caras alternates his professional career, in which he has done commissions for numerous publications. With his love for digital photography.

READ IT IN SPANISH: Caras Lonut - Naturaleza surrealista inspirada por Poe

In these environments he has used a language where surrealism shares space and discourse with elements taken from the natural universe. Representing landscapes in which the nostalgia for a childhood that will no longer return, is blurred between strokes inspired by the memory of the dream and its traces imprinted in the subconscious.

Today with an image processing application anyone can achieve excellent photographic results, perhaps what makes the difference is that subjective nuance, in the end the psycho-affective elements provided by the photographer.

And therefore the skills deployed in the creative process and the technical knowledge that the photographer possesses. David Hill is an example of the above, his photographs in HDR, meet both in its execution, as in its composition, as well as in the treatment of images made in the studio.

Where he sometimes retouches each image to the point of exhaustion, something he does however with the sole objective that each of the many photographs he has taken throughout his long career. It reflects those elements and concerns from which he has created a very particular universe.

BODY LANGUAGE FROM A CREATIVE POINT OF VIEW

Whose visual narrative apart from preserving some signs of identification perfectly recognizable by anyone who approaches his work. In which prevails his vocation that in many of his photographs you do not appreciate the difference with what could be an illustration.

Dave does not make use of a simple Photoshop plugin, with which he retouches those aspects of the photograph until he gives it his particular stamp. Paying special attention to the lights by applying specific filters through which he gets that lighting as localized as realistic.

READ IT IN SPANISH: David Hill un pionero de la fotografía digital

His technique, developed over many years, therefore requires a combination, in which the parameters related to lighting seek a movement of that image that in principle is immovable and that comes to life through that action that is perceived. Creating a highly seductive narrative. In the following link you have the opportunity to follow the process of applying the HDR technique.

David Hill is a commercial photographer based in Los Angeles. Born in 1979, he grew up in San Diego. His love for photography has evolved over the years, and now it has become his obsession. David Hill is one of the biggest names in the photography business.

Realized in black and white, Tommy Ignberg's photographic compositions use the language of the most orthodox surrealism. Through which he represents social automatisms, the desires and dreams that are really camouflaged inside us, emerging from the unconscious.

Although indebted to the most orthodox currents of surrealism of the early twentieth century like René Magritte, Tommy was born during the 80's in a town in the interior of Sweden called Nyköping, where he has lived except for short periods of time all his life.

A rootedness to landscapes that are transferred to his works, where he adds more contemporary narrative elements or pays tribute more or less explicitly to characters and figures. They are part of our collective imagination, being relatively easy to identify for practically all of us.

It is this combination of elements, both those belonging to the territory in which he has grown up and where he has therefore spent much of his life, and the allusion to events starring relevant figures of our popular culture. The one that creates the combination in its right measure through which it manages to seduce us as spectators.

A beautiful small town located south of Stockholm, whose natural treasures became the ideal object that he photographed almost compulsively. Activity through which he educated his peculiar vision since his earliest childhood.

Regular activity that almost without realizing it, gave him, however, enough knowledge about the characteristics that should meet a photograph to approach it with optimal results. And that had not only a creative but also an artistic component, virtues that he has undoubtedly acquired in more than remarkable terms.

Experience that at first he acquired using as most professional photographers using an analog camera, to later move almost definitively to the side of those who use for their projects almost only digital equipment.

PHOTOGRAPHY AS EMOTIONAL THERAPY

This technical change not only modified the approach I used to apply when undertaking a photographic work. But he could perceive this change when he was already in the studio, in front of the computer used as a post-production tool, retouching and editing each shot, something that contributed especially to his artistic result.

Moving from a photography in which the landscape dominated to surrealistic photographic montages enriched by other foreign elements that he had the opportunity to introduce. Creating more instropective works, whose script is based on our condition and human nature, as well as our emotional and intellectual manifestations.

READ IT IN SPANISH: Los sueños elevados del fotógrafo Tommy Ignberg explora las emociones del sujeto

This change in his work method occurred five years ago during a series of complicated episodes that affected him deeply. Traumatic trigger that far from making him give up his passion for photography, caused him to start playing with some photoshop functions, creating surreal photographic montages that reflected the different states of mind he was going through.