Picture baker with passion
From the current snapshot: "Humor"
Imagine sitting in a giant sandbox. The options for design are endless. Time doesn't matter. You can experiment and try until thoughts and ideas fall out of your head. This is exactly how it can be for a photographer playing with image editing, post-production or editing. Most use tools to tweak minor corrections of color, light and cropping. With Ingo Lindmeier, it's almost a personal challenge to bring his imagination to life. The photographer builds his own motifs and always has one thing in mind: fun!
Ingo Lindmeier - Tomato Frog
Ingo Lindmeier - Tomato FrogWhen I, Ingo Lindmeier, picture baker with passion, was asked by Foto Koch for the snapshot "Humor", I immediately stood on my head. Exactly my T-shirt width, I thought. Since it's literally in my blood to tell funny stories, hundreds of image creations have been created over the past years. My work as a digital artist is characterized by puns and wild composings that don't seem to blend together at first. I also like to add a cup of whimsy and a touch of goosebumps to my photo-realistic image recipes. "Straight is boring," is my motto. That's why I combine the most hair-raising motifs such as hairstyles and food without fear of contact.
People play "supporting roles" as quick-change artists, such as a surreal pop art pocket turtle. I am a real play child and will probably never grow up. I still have to shave, and this annoying activity has given rise to the somewhat more fun Lawnmower Man variant. Sometimes I simply take up current situations like Maurizio Cattelan's taped banana "Comedian", put them into a different context, in order to take myself and my fellow species a bit on the sh(r)ippe with it.
" ... I never tire of merging my motifs in the most abstruse ways."
So my composings are not always to be taken too seriously, especially when it comes to the implementation of puns. Many a veggie would otherwise have their hair stand on end when they find themselves as a buffalo mozzarella, a tomato frog or a little bread. Animals, all kinds of fruits and vegetables are my biggest sources of ideas. I never tire of merging them in the most abstruse ways. Out comes the occasional giraffe and dachshund monkey, and the list of those offering new homes for these sweet creatures fills up quickly. A real draw was not only a reinterpretation of this common word combination, but also the cute feathered mouse from the Fabuleon universe. How such a small missing letter can change an entire animal â¦
Although people shouldn't always take everything I fabricate in delicious pictures, sometimes I take it very literally. So, as you might imagine, the English Dragon Fly (dragonfly) turned into a downright fabulous composing. "Mind blowing" has perhaps stimulated my cerebral plexuses a bit too much. For the taste of some, I have staged the so-called gray mass simply horrible. And I don't even want to talk about the Cereal Killer.
Ingo Lindmeier - Giraffe and Dachshund Monkey
Ingo Lindmeier - Lawn Mower Man
Ingo Lindmeier - Buffalo mozzarella
Ingo LindmeierMany ingredients for the optimal recipe
How to the master baker, however, I should represent a KlingelStreichKäse, a PlatzAngstHasen, stage fright or Kiwi Wonder, I am quite in the flour dust. Maybe you have a clever recipe idea? I am not a classic image editor, but, as mentioned at the beginning, a picture baker. Humor is not the only proven ingredient in my baked goods. The basic ingredient is usually the surreal expression. I like to change my recipes again and again. A pinch of social criticism, a large portion of playfulness, a pinch of tragedy or a dash of pedagogy can always be found in my assortment of pictures.
There is not the "one" approach, how my images or composings are created. Sometimes it's a stock photo that acts as a trigger, sometimes it's a play on words or an early morning "brain pretzel" that wants to go into the picture oven. Then I knead an initial rough sketch directly in Adobe Photoshop, combining a motley assortment of ingredients (Adobe Stock, Pixabay, Pixelsquid, and other databases) until the image design is crisp enough ⦠or not. It's often quite chaotic in my bakery. Walking the image dough is sometimes very time consuming. The difficulty in this step is discovering the right subjects with the appropriate perspective and quality. It is not uncommon for something completely different to form along the way. Now it's time for fine-tuning: Light. Shadows. Transitions. Colors. Sharpness. Finally, I add a retouching layer on top, on which I model everything that is still missing by hand. Finally, I dump the image into the RAW developer and bake it.
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