The pics thread

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So, presented my ads in class; my professor (a professional fine arts photographer and previous worker on Madison Avenue in his younger years) said out loud to everyone while I was presenting that "this person standing up here right now has the best sense of how to write articulate, hard-selling body copy in this whole class. So, if you need body copy ideas, or need your copy edited, go see him, because this is fantastic stuff...this is stuff that gets you jobs."

Win.

And for people interested in his photography (because it is excellent), check out a few of his prints. He does not use Photoshop. These are all done in the darkroom or on the camera using optical illusions and very carefully staged people/scenes, usually himself actually.

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And here he is, the old Finnish-born mofo, in all his glory.

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Holy shit. I liked those photos, top especially. I usually dislike photography. But most of the photography I see is from my school's gallery of the top photography class. It follows a "throw a random object on the ground, take a picture of it, and put it on grayscale" theme.
 
Not at all impressed with the third, but hot damn those first two are amazing.

Too many photographers rely on photoshop; doesn't help however that the market prefers the over-polished bleached out type of photography.
 
Those posters on the last page are brick-shitting-tastic. Awesome job, V5! "Talented" isn't a strong enough word.