Allan Gill...X-Ray Photography

[jtk]

https://allangillphotography.com/ X-Ray Photography

https://allangillphotography.com/galleries/black-on-white/

Technique: https://allangillphotography.com/technique/

 

[jtk]

 

[jtk]

See also examples used as office decor..

 

[AgX]

In the 70s artists started employing X-Ray photos.

 

[awty]

Very nice, the bird is great, although I find his b&w look too much like xrays . Dr. Dain Tasker was a pioneer in this and I like his better or at least that style, seem to have a better tonal quality and are better composed. Wonder how much old analog xray machines go for theses days.....

 

[AgX]

Jürgen Klauke "Dead Photographer" (self-portrait, 1993)
https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/1016-1/343-juergen-klauke.html

 

[jtk]

Very nice, the bird is great, although I find his b&w look too much like xrays . Dr. Dain Tasker was a pioneer in this and I like his better or at least that style, seem to have a better tonal quality and are better composed. Wonder how much old analog xray machines go for theses days.....

Please provide links to Taser's work. If Tasker isn't online, he didn't/doesn't exist. It's silly to say that one photographer is "better" than another without some sort of visual support.

Consider visiting the links I provided: all sorts of images with all sorts of tonal characteristics, not to mention creative color renditions.

 

[awty]

Please provide links to Taser's work. If Tasker isn't online, he didn't/doesn't exist. It's silly to say that one photographer is "better" than another without some sort of visual support.

Consider visiting the links I provided: all sorts of images with all sorts of tonal characteristics, not to mention creative color renditions.

I did look through his site and a simple google will find Dr. Dain Tasker https://www.google.com.au/search?q=...69_iAhWKLI8KHb-dD5YQ_AUIECgB&biw=1880&bih=938 . Pretty sure he's dead and only exists in memories and photos.
Allen Gill has fine pictures, but for me I dont really like the way he uses high and low key and the photos are a little too botanical (or to similar to the dr's), really just nit picking. He certainly markets himself well, does what most photographers do these days and makes the picture fit their limited technique, in that they use the same settings for each print. Dr Dain, to my eyes, has a better understanding of composition, cant really know if his benefited in printing by third party editing, unless you saw both together its hard to say, but they look good on the net.

 

[jtk]

Thanks for following through.

Tasker's work is dandy ... I don't think we have enough evidence, not to mention personal credibility, to assert that one is "better" than the other. I have no idea what Tasker could have accomplished if he hadn't (evidently) been limited to one technique.

It's good to see photographers doing new work with relatively new techniques (making good use of Photoshop for example) and successfully marketing that work.

 

[awty]

Just throwing in my uneducated 2 bobs worth of subjective opinion and hopefully Tasker isnt a member here and I dont have to back track. It isnt new, Dr Dain was doing his in the 1930's and Tasker's is very similar, but interesting just the same.
BTW I aways like looking at the photographers you put up, always something interesting. I prefer photographers that have something interesting to say, but pretty pictures a good as well. Its ok for me to have an opinion how ever miss guided it might be, better to have one than none at all.

 

[awty]

Jürgen Klauke "Dead Photographer" (self-portrait, 1993)
https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/1016-1/343-juergen-klauke.html

Cool, this is my favorite.

 

[jtk]

Those "analog" full body Xrays probably killed Tasker. That's yet another argument for digital

 

[jtk]

Just throwing in my uneducated 2 bobs worth of subjective opinion and hopefully Tasker isnt a member here and I dont have to back track. It isnt new, Dr Dain was doing his in the 1930's and Tasker's is very similar, but interesting just the same.
BTW I aways like looking at the photographers you put up, always something interesting. I prefer photographers that have something interesting to say, but pretty pictures a good as well. Its ok for me to have an opinion how ever miss guided it might be, better to have one than none at all.

Good. My own preference is to describe my responses rather than to issue "opinions." Maybe not a significant difference.

 

[awty]

Those "analog" full body Xrays probably killed Tasker. That's yet another argument for digital

A CT scanner would be interesting, giving a 3 dimensional image. Maybe next time I have one Ill ask if I can carry a pot plant on my tummy.

 

[awty]

Good. My own preference is to describe my responses rather than to issue "opinions." Maybe not a significant difference.

Well what do you expect from a blue collar worker who left school at 15. You could enlighten me with his pictures attributes beyond the fact he uses PS. Im happy to learn, Im not totally ignorant. I like critiquing in the style of Sister Wendy (especially if its done with a lisp), if it weren't for her I would have less appreciation for the arts.

 

[jtk]

I'm not interested in "attributes" so much as my own responses and those of others. And I evaluate the responses of others based mostly on what they say, not at all on what they did when 15 yrs or saw online.

 

[Love2Live]

OP the pic by Alan Gill in your OP is fantastic, as well as the ones by Tasker*, and l see little difference except Gill's is one pic, Tasker's is a pageload of Google Image results.

Now will somebody make a thread on how to do this at home?!!!!!! I never imagined this style of photography. Now l want it.

*Full disclosure: Gill's wins.

 

[mark]

Well what do you expect from a blue collar worker who left school at 15. You could enlighten me with his pictures attributes beyond the fact he uses PS. Im happy to learn, Im not totally ignorant. I like critiquing in the style of Sister Wendy (especially if its done with a lisp), if it weren't for her I would have less appreciation for the arts.

Sister Wendy is pretty cool. I had not heard of her. Thank you for posting this.