What’s in a picture?

A picture’s worth a thou­sand words. Behind gifted eyes, is a vision, a gen­tle whis­per from the heart, an artist’s soul. Like the deaf­en­ing silence in a vibrant dream,

…every pic­ture tells a story with a dif­fer­ent point of view.

Articles

Written by WILL WIRIAWAN

Thursday, January 7 2010

Creating Digital Realism

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Clinton as King Shrek by Alex Ostroy

Beyond the sim­ple yet often com­pli­cated world of visual art, lies a com­plex web of cul­tural, social, psy­cho­log­i­cal & tech­ni­cal con­text a pho­tog­ra­pher should mas­ter to be able to cap­ture the realm of per­sona, an aura of energy, the vision & char­ac­ter of his/her sub­jects in the time & space that they are being pho­tographed at.

It is that mas­tery that sets things apart. Mastering it is what makes a pho­tog­ra­pher, a painter, a musi­cian, a sculp­tor, a chef, a writer (or any kind pro­fes­sion) an artist, under­stand­ing with a touch of appre­ci­a­tion is the Art.

At the same time, what can be an extra­or­di­nary work often often gets mixed up with pro­duc­tion com­pli­ca­tions, even the best of the best can barely achieve per­fec­tion, some work gone to a bet­ter path, many shall flunk while time & money is the two things no one will ever have enough.

That’s where Alex Ostroy came to the picture.

John Goldsen, CGI online:

…with the work being done by Ostroy, extra­or­di­nary real­ism has become a given, what makes the work com­pelling is the sophis­ti­cated under­stand­ing of stu­dio pho­to­graphic light­ing tech­nique. he is one to always keep an eye on…

The key to Ostroy’s suc­cess is none other than his com­plete mas­tery of a tech­nique and intu­itive under­stand­ing where his client & his vision lies, he becomes that bridge, the inter­preter of the force that will guide him to the end of the journey.

It is mes­mer­iz­ing to see his spec­tac­u­lar art; under­stand that it is not the tech­ni­cals, nor his tools that cre­ates the art­work, but his pas­sion & his per­sis­tence to break his bound­aries each and every time.