John Gavrilis-a "new" name

[John C Murphy]

Check out this guy's work:

John Gavrilis

Apparently, he is a LF photographer whose name hasn't showed up yet on this forum.

Enjoy.

[Bill_1856]

The world is full 0f good, but unknown, competent photographers. He seems to be one of them.

[mark blackman]

He obviously likes the 'saturate' option in photoshop.

[tim atherton]

Jeesh man - I needed my sunglasses. Fuji Velveeta overload.

[QT Luong]

He has been on the art fair scene for a long while.

[Guy Tal]

Apparently, he is a LF photographer whose name hasn't showed up yet on this forum.

   He obviously likes the 'saturate' option in photoshop.
   Jeesh man - I needed my sunglasses. Fuji Velveeta overload.

Gee.. I wonder why he hasn't shown up here yet. Or maybe he has, and turned right around.

Guy
Scenic Wild Photography

[james mickelson]

I'm one of the few who love Velvia but this is even beyond my tastes. The color is way too obvious and even gaudy. I won't outright pan this but..............

[Bill_1856]

LOL! Velvia users complaining that it's too garish -- that's really funny!

[Scott Davis]

colors so bright they're painful. Youch!

I was at an art fair in Bethesda, Maryland this weekend and saw way too much of this kind of photography. I also saw the work of some photographer whose name escapes me, who made a big deal of his mule-trekking into the backcountry with an 8x10 to take photos, and also of his having studied with St. Ansel. He was making MAMMOTH b/w enlargements and charging a fortune (north of $5000 apiece for the big prints) and doing this horrible marketing thing with "first generation" and "second generation copies" (for $750 apiece). The second generation copies I think were done from copy negs made from his enlarged originals, and/or digital photos of the original prints and then inkjetted (I forget the details because it became so much obnoxious excess that I walked away). He was noticeably a subscriber to the school of "If you can't make it good, make it big". I think the smallest print he had on display in his tent was a 20x24, if not a 30x40.

[bglick]

John is one of the best selling "published posters" for Landscape Photography. His posters actually look pretty damn good. At 10 ft, its hard to distinguish his postes from his prints. The buying public seems to crave Velvia pushed to the max. John is also very successful on the art fair circuit...