The Most Realistic Photos in the World

This summer I had the pleasure and good fortune to meet Almont Green.  Having just returned from Florida and approaching my office - studio at The Old Brick Mill Building in Medway, MA 

I saw on display off the lobby several outstanding photo images. The images were bright, clear, clean - and 3 Dimensional!  I found this to be the studio of a new tenant in the building so I walked in and introduced myself to our new neighbor. The introduction was the beginning of many enjoyable and enlightening conversations. Almont Green combines creative talent with uncanny, wizardly skills of science and math to come up with super realistic three dimensional photographs. Almont’s enthusiasm and vision for this scientific art form is inspiring - and to me, mind-boggling.

Almont Green creates life size 3D photographs that must be, quite simply, the most realistic in the world. He digitally captures an array of multi-perspective images at very high resolution, extreme focal length, and with extended dynamic range using lighting and composition techniques he has developed specifically for the purpose of life size 3D photograph creation. He brings his own interpretation to the photograph, processing the multi-perspective images by hand with the aid of computers. He manipulates each image, adjusting tonal balance and luminance details available within the extended dynamic range of his unique photographic array. With software and processing methods developed exclusively by Almont Green, his vision begins with the creation of a digital master, just as a traditional artist uses brushes and paint on canvas, to achieve the ultimate in artistic 3D photographic realism. From this digital master he creates a life-size giclee print with up to 10 different HDR pigment inks output via an Ergosoft raster image processor at a print resolution with approximately 1,500 non-overlapping dots per inch. This print is then laminated by hand onto a high resolution hand selected lenticular lens material with three times the normal lens density used for interlaced imagery.

Natural viewing of multiple perspectives is now possible. No weird glasses or special viewing device is needed to look at an Almont Green 3D photograph. Almont Green 3D photographs can be viewed just like any photo.  It's not magic, it is science. It is math. It is a custom camera rig with multiple lenses at extreme focal length. It is 21st century art - photographic artistry with unmatched realism - unique in the entire world. 

When you view an Almont Green Photograph, you see through a window that opens beyond the boundary of time. You see all of the resolution, luminance dynamic range, physical size, dimensional depth and perspective that Almont's eyes saw at the moment of shutter release.

I make no attempt to replicate on this blog an image of Almont’s photography. You’ve got to see it in real life to appreciate the dimensional, super realistic impact. To know more about him, visit his web-site at www.almontgreen.com