This photographer creates surrealistic images without Photoshop manipulation
Jan 7, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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The battle between those who support photo manipulation and those who don’t is probably never-ending. I believe both are right, and I think photo-manipulation is an art for itself. But Slovak photographer Michal Zahornacky brings these two worlds together in a way. He creates dreamy, surrealistic photos – but free from digital manipulation.
Michal says he found the beauty of fine art photography after he stopped digitally manipulating his images. In his last projects, he focused more on creating scenes and taking photos instead of using manipulation. Still, some of the photos look so surreal that you can’t help but wonder if they are really created without heavy use of Photoshop.
As Michal explains, he creates real-time scenes for his photos and enjoys this process. It’s difficult and very challenging to think of the scenes and prepare them for shooting. It takes hours to prepare, and the process of preparation actually lasts longer that the shooting itself. But the result is a series of breathtaking, fairytale-like images. Take a look at more of his photos below:
About the Artist
Michal bought his first camera in 2011 and became active on a professional level in 2014. He is a self-taught photographer, focusing mainly on portraits with unique emotions and atmosphere. You can also find some wedding photos in his portfolio. If you would like to see more of his work, you can visit his website and like his Facebook page.
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Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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10 responses to “This photographer creates surrealistic images without Photoshop manipulation”
Nice work! You know, fine art photographers have been creating fine art since the dawn of photography. The real issue is whether or not your creative vision is using ‘digital manipulation’ as a substitute for talent.
Perhaps, unless your “talent” is digital manipulation…
Wow, nice!
“Still, some of the photos look so surreal that you can’t help but wonder
if they are really created without heavy use of Photoshop.”
I don’t know … I don’t see a single photo that would need “heavy use of Photoshop” …
I see images with “heavy practical effort” and that’s why they are so great.
Magnificent !
Photoshop is the bane of photography. They lend ‘fakeness’ to a picture. I would rather see a photo with blemishes than a sterile, photoshopped picture.
Hell yeah! Everything is Facebook perfect nowadays. My hobby is photography not photo manipulation. My friends keep on saying that I can make my images much better with a bit of tweaking but I don’t want better images. Ok, I do want better photos. I want to look at them and think about the effort, luck, skill, once in a lifetime opportunity not that I may try to reprocess the file once more in the future, maybe that will be better.
(Please, I don’t need the preaching about dark room skills of certain photographers. Comparin dark room dodge and burn to PS masking is like comparing Rembrandt to an inkjet printer)
I suppose that answering you would be a loss of time. When Amish meet photography.
You could only do so much to a photo in the dark room. With photoshop you can synthesize an alternate reality. That defeats the very purpose of photography. Those air-brushed faces and slimmed down arms and legs are a lie expressed in pixels.
Photoshop is not the “bane” of photography, but the never-ending debate about whether or not something is “photoshopped” surely is.
Oh, this is so inspiring! I love it!