My name is Adrian Sommeling. Im a digital artist and a photographer. Im living near Amsterdam. My style is "hyper-realistic", like some people call it.
I call it actually "American advertising style". I would call it "Sommeling style", but that would not be applicable to everybody. Four years ago I bought a digital camera and I started photography again. In the beginning, I was just taking photos of flowers and buildings, but it really got boring for me.
I wanted to tell a story. I always work with a wide-angle lens. You can come close to the lens and it feels really like theres movement. With a wide-angle lens theres dynamics, if you take pictures of buildings.
So I always have the wide-angle lens, and I always have the light. The light always has to come a little bit from the back. I like that light. These are the things I always do.
These are the main elements in every one of my pictures. I chose this photo of the boat, because I want to show the people how light reflects. Its not only the light coming from the sun, its doing more. Light bounces everywhere.
I think this photo was good for this purpose. For this one I chose this particular background, because I had an idea in my mind: I wanted to show a combination of the old traditional way of painting and the modern way with a tablet. You see somebody in the background doing graffiti the old-fashioned way, but he is using actually cans with Photoshop icons. So we really combine the new digital world with the old painting world.
That was my idea behind it. What motivates me to make my pictures? Everything! I dont need motivation actually. If Im not creating something, it starts itching inside. Maybe I can stop designing or creating something for a week, but after a week I really have to.
It is something inside here that really needs to create. I dont need motivation to create things. But I get motivated by many things around me to create things..
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