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

Lady in Lace

Lady in Lace      photo by Jim Plesh

available as limited edition prints

I’ve had the opportunity through the years to work with some outstanding photographers. From early on in my career as a creative director I was responsible for many photo shoots. Through the years I worked with the likes of New England photographers: Bela Kalman, Conrad Lowman and Al Riccio as well as one of finest floral photographers ever, Tony Stone (London). There were many others, and it was through these talented people I learned the fine art of photography. To watch their specific techniques of lighting, set-ups and posturing was beyond what I might have learned as a student of a photography institution.

There came a point when I took camera in hand and did my own photo shoots, rather than direct the shooting, and developed my personal style and techniques. With photography, as is my practice with paint brush and canvas, I do not want to simply replicate what is in front of me, but rather create unique and artistic images. Before photoshop I was utilizing all the tricks and gimmicks of lens and lighting. When the magic of photoshop came into play the creative potential of the photographed image realized no boundaries. The subjects, whether floral or scenic, models or machines, were opened to a plethora of artistic possibilities. I feel fortunate to have worked my way through the earlier cycles of photography to the wondrous capabilities of today’s sophisticated high tech equipment.

I also had the good fortune to work with some exceptional models - young ladies who worked so hard and diligently at a most difficult profession. Working with an excellent model is paramount to a good photo session. The really good ones bring their own creativity into play and are instrumental in bringing the efforts of the photographer to a higher level. One such model was Jessica Sanasarian who has successfully worked the Boston - New York circuit as an accomplished model with an outstanding portfolio. “Lady in Lace” is but one of the many wonderfully artistic images of Jessica. 

To view more of my photographs visit www.pleshart.com.