can SOMEONE PLEASE tell me how that brownish photoshop technique is accomplished? it’s everywhere these days — editiorial, ads, everywhere. thx!
oh, yes, great images — it’s no wonder this fellow’s a magnum photographer. many shots online not in the mag; i love what he does with reflections and windows. and, well, everything.
@d.t. Isn’t this just selective desaturation in PhotoShop and/or Lightroom/Aperture?! What’s interesting is that Pellegrin did not do it himself but relied on post production studios. . . I wonder if it was time constraints or just that the budget was there from the NY Times and I assume these retouchers are top of tops in terms of skill.
Let’s hope that this new austerity plan on celebrity photography has a trend-setting role in getting back role of having a photographer with a great eye (with perhaps one assistant) go out and bring back stories about their subjects instead of recording a staged theatrical production.
It is great to see the emphasis on the vision again instead of the production.
Amazing…the ‘Obama’s People’ photo essay left me cold, but this thing, quite frankly, hit a grand slam. There wasn’t one thing wrong with this story (I wasn’t put off by the ‘digital color’ knob-twiddling) and as Mark said, I sincerely hope we see more of this type of thing and less publicist-driven soap selling!
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Brilliant. Thanks for the heads up!
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Posted 06 Feb 2009 at 12:03 pm ¶One of my favourite photographers !
He is winner of many awards, including eight World Press Photo and numerous Photographer of the Year Awards
Just to know more about this very talented italian photographer I’d like to share these links:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/paolo-pellegrin-witness-to-history-780876.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIml7aQJ_NQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcU5Ba4ufqw
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R13CHLN&nm=Paolo%20Pellegrin
Thanks for sharing this new photo essay.
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Posted 06 Feb 2009 at 12:11 pm ¶Every year NYT mag does such a great job with this feature. McGinley last year was awesome too.
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Posted 06 Feb 2009 at 12:26 pm ¶Yummy!
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Posted 06 Feb 2009 at 2:12 pm ¶Absolutely beautiful. So refreshing to not see a portfolio of the Conde Nast style of celebrity portraiture.
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Posted 06 Feb 2009 at 2:37 pm ¶good pictures but too much fumbling around with digital colours for my taste – it also makes the claim of “no hair and make-up” somewhat pointless.
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Posted 07 Feb 2009 at 7:09 am ¶What, no Black & White?
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Posted 07 Feb 2009 at 9:57 am ¶can SOMEONE PLEASE tell me how that brownish photoshop technique is accomplished? it’s everywhere these days — editiorial, ads, everywhere. thx!
oh, yes, great images — it’s no wonder this fellow’s a magnum photographer. many shots online not in the mag; i love what he does with reflections and windows. and, well, everything.
thx for the link, rob
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Posted 08 Feb 2009 at 12:38 am ¶Great pictures!!!
Really nice.
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Posted 09 Feb 2009 at 7:50 am ¶@d.t. Isn’t this just selective desaturation in PhotoShop and/or Lightroom/Aperture?! What’s interesting is that Pellegrin did not do it himself but relied on post production studios. . . I wonder if it was time constraints or just that the budget was there from the NY Times and I assume these retouchers are top of tops in terms of skill.
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Posted 09 Feb 2009 at 9:43 am ¶I love these photos!
Let’s hope that this new austerity plan on celebrity photography has a trend-setting role in getting back role of having a photographer with a great eye (with perhaps one assistant) go out and bring back stories about their subjects instead of recording a staged theatrical production.
It is great to see the emphasis on the vision again instead of the production.
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Posted 09 Feb 2009 at 5:31 pm ¶Amazing…the ‘Obama’s People’ photo essay left me cold, but this thing, quite frankly, hit a grand slam. There wasn’t one thing wrong with this story (I wasn’t put off by the ‘digital color’ knob-twiddling) and as Mark said, I sincerely hope we see more of this type of thing and less publicist-driven soap selling!
BT
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Posted 11 Feb 2009 at 1:09 pm ¶ALL the color postproduction of Paolo Pellgrin is made by 10bphotography studio, an italian team of digital experts based in Rome.
claudio palmisano
http://www.10bphotography.com
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