| DANIEL MUNTEANU |
| Something About Daniel Munteanu An important part of my work is concerned with Macro experiments and with finding new ways to enhance what nature already placed there and understanding how one can give objects and sets their corresponding meaning and fill them with a particular energy. The Artificial Light Macro section is a particular quest aiming to achieve crisp, noise free results, using different lighting techniques. It has been developed into many different branch projects which have different stage sets characteristics which bring them apart.Attention and innovation would be the main terms, imbued in a certain vision and atmosphere you wish to embed in the images, and overall, patience, searching, organizing and working nights. All the images from the A.L.M. galleries are realized with the following idea in mind: to be as close to true photography, made from the camera, though in a now digital age. This means that they do not involve any kind of photo manipulation, all objects and environment conditions are simulated and placed on the 'studio stage'. The corrections applied are as follows: the corners of the image are redone/filled/cloned in the Minutes subcategory, due to a specific workflow and necessary reflection acquirement.In other cases, very small areas are repaired, a few highlights removed - and those last changes are seldom. Objects are not duplicated/cloned, but hand placed:) The other are normal post production technical adjustments in Photoshop - many images are HDR processed and locally adapted - color corrections, curves, shadows, saturation, a bit of noise removal and sharpening, all applied to more or less, depending on the case. Nature fascinates me as a whole and I try to explore it as best as I can, paying attention to the details and light conditions one may just pass by. Many a time it was better to leave the trodden path in favor of some exploring. In time you will have trained your eye to search and be gladdened by the fine and small parts of the world. Among the images that are related to movement, I nominate the Moved Light section, in which light is stretched and shifted (be it by a horizontal or vertical camera movement) and becomes trails,fireworks, likeness to particles in motion. Painting with light should be just as random as you want it, sometimes achieving abstract, fairy-like results. In the future I intend to develop the Artificial Light Macro staged sets and continue with new series, also to expand and enlarge the dimensions of the sets and continue to use new materials, to combine different parts of natural elements with man made artefacts and substances.I will also try to create more organic environments, to have a more sense of natural, random growth, but actually to be arranged with care or think up simple and elegant scenes. Also, compositing A.L.M images with Glow World images and animating part of the scene sounds like a good path. |
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