Saelon
Renkes
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Renkes, Saelonlives in Canada and the USA
I found the works of Saelon Renkes in Photobox and immediately fell in love with her unusually colored pictures. I visited her personal website, which is www.saelon.com. Saelon uses the method of handcoloring in her works. For a nonprofessional person her photoes seem somehow innovative and unusual at a glance. Once it was the only way to make a color photograph. Nowdays not many photographers prefer to make black and white photoes and even less color them. And I guess it's not an easy way.
"With black and white films we can use a number of different methods to change the relative values in an image, such as using color filters to lighten some parts and darken others, depending on their color, or using the zone system to increase or decrease the tonal range of an image. We can choose from a huge variety of different papers, all with somewhat different characteristics, and we can nudge the image along in different directions with a number of different printing techniques."
She uses a few slight variations of a color for each thing in the image.
Shug
I like Renkels' Sunflower Series of portraits. I saw flowers in the hands of people on photoes of many photographers. And I think it is in the power of a talented person to transform a trivial detail into element helping reveal the character of the person posing for the picture. She made many photoes with sunflowers, each one is interesting.
Erik
Johanna
Kathy
Jack
Renkels makes portraits as well as photoes of nature and flowers in particular.
canoeing
lake Monroe
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