Very cool interview with Mitch Dobrowner, winner of the 2012 Sony World Photography Award for his b&w landscape (and weather) photography. His submission photos are here. His own portfolio site is here. Here are two examples of his work: These are stunning shots. Some look so surreal that one might think they have been photoshopped. However:
I treat the digital sensor as if it were a piece of film; I filter for my scene with traditional filters at the time of capture. I’m conscious that adjustments made later in Photoshop are destructive and so I prefer working in this way. I’m not saying this is the fine art, or purist, way of doing it, I’m just saying it’s my preferred way. […] It’s my vision and what I saw at the time and it has integrity. The judges checked my RAW files and were happy that they were more or less what I submitted as my entry because I’m doing most of my work ‘in camera.’
