Artist 45: Arkadiusz Makowski

This photographer intrigues me.

He takes a simple overdone idea like photos of butterflies, and explores it and expands it.
Some notes. The lighting in these photos is amazing. Often the light is filtered by one of the butterflies' wings. Or reflecting off the delicate petals of a flower. It gives them such a magical quality.

Also, the colors are amazing. So vibrant. Often the backgrounds are pastels, while the colors in the foreground tend to be slightly darker and more neutral, which emphasizes the stuff in the foreground.

Finally, the focus. It varies so dramatically from the foreground to the background. It gives it almost that painterly quality in the back where lots of pretty pastels kind of blur together while the butterfly and the amazing lighting on the flowers are super crisp and lovely.

I'm pretty sure it has to do with HDR, but it just goes to show something cliche can be great if it's done REALLY well.




Here is a link to his site, but good luck with the Polish.