After The Rain - Ring of Kerry, Ireland 2019
I haven’t been much online the past few years and if you wonder if I still photograph: yes, I’m fully immersed in the art of photography, developing B&W editing software, creating photographs and teaching about photography. In fact, I just taught a workshop in Ireland and did a big talk at the annual Irishlight photography event that was received warmly and with appreciation.
Ireland is a beautiful country, so much so that it rekindled my suppressed love for landscapes in unexpected ways. The people who followed me for the last decade know that until 2009 I was mainly shooting landscapes and seascapes before fully turning to architectural photography and stick with it. The Irish landscape, however, was so beautiful in its rawness and especially when covered in the ethereal light in between the rain showers, that shooting the beautiful Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin was just a minor highlight for me. That light! I can’t explain it, but I know it’s the type of light I’ve been chasing ever since I had recurring dreams as a young boy that was about that kind of diffused and ethereal light. And it is that light and the feeling that light gives me, that I wanted to convey in this photo. Perhaps nostalgic and romanticized, but what’s life without the desire to embellish life.
This photo is an almost 90MP photo, best seen large
Processing took place entirely with the
Artisan Pro X panel. More info on my panel on
my website.
Related to this: next week German FotoTV and I will release a new 3.5-hour video tutorial that explains the new B&W fine-art workflow model that forms the basis for the Artisan Pro X panel and enables me to control intricate details in photos that aren’t possible manually. A photo that illustrates that will be posted next week. I promise it is quite special from a technical point of view and the artistic possibilities it opened up to me. The latter is something I didn’t anticipate as I was merely trying to speed up the workflow and make things easier. So I surprised myself, which is by itself, surprising…
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