Dan Mountford

I came across Dan Mountford's work just browsing and I think his work is really inspiring and amazing. I like how he uses photography to create what looks like pictures montaged together, when really he has used all in-camera techniques (double exposure) and simply removed parts and edited colours using Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Mountford's Flickr account showing all of his work.

The Butterfly Lion is one of my favourites from his work. There are no Photoshop overlays, the only thing edited in Photoshop is the colours, the actually images were created in-camera by double exposure. I think is very creative and talented as he is able to capturing beautiful images and create amazing piece of work. It is unique and his style has soft colours most of the time, following a similar colour scheme, or using black and white. Also, my favourite out of his black and white work is Vall // Old Brighton Pier. It looks simple, but at a close look you can see the time and effort that has been put into these shots and getting them precise. It gives off a peaceful sentimental looks, and all of his work looks welcoming and interesting to look at because of how visually unique and unusual it is.

He also does hand made illustrations.

I love this illustration. He created the antlers by using coffee which made the brown stained look. As for the body, they are made using simple individual straight lines, showing the effort put into it. I think that the use of colours are effective and I like the fact that they aren't the typical deer colours, they're bold and the mixed media of coffee and ink makes a great effect. Also, the fact that there are only two colours make it much more effective than if there was lots of other colours mixed in with it. I would like to try and incorporate some of his style into my own work and experiment with some of the the things he has as they're individual and really do create some wonderful effects.