Andrzej Dragan Photography

Hi Czarny.I am very impressed with your images. You have developed a style that is both artistic and astute. Each is individual, but the portfolio also presents well as a body of work, and I find it truly inspirational. Thank you for sharing.

Hi, Czarny... stunning, amazing, impressive, original, beautiful... a few words on your work. Thanks for sharing!

Great and good job for this 12 first photos. And, it s not so often we don t have landscapes,,,I really appreciate your style. go ahead and don t take care about some ratings....

Awesome work

Your work is simply outstanding, Czarny. Never have I seen such amazing portrait work. Your images are unique, and captivating. Not only are they aesthetically pleasing, but they make me feel emotions I didn't think I had. Just marvelous pieces of art...BRAVO!!

Hello, I see on photo.net much more polish accent :) To mi³o...

I really admire your work.

one word..... Outstanding!

Such work, have not seen anything that draws me to it more for years ! Whew !!!! *R*

You are a master of the portrait. These are all amazing and not the usual type of portraits. They seem to all have something, some technique that makes them astonoushing. Thank you for sharing your work.

This viewer lost out on an offer from this photographer, and rightly so! You deserve every accolade, and your works are truly to be admired! Thank you for sharing.

Just no words to say how I appreciate the type of pictures you displayed on that site. You really have talent man. I went on your site and i am impressed with most of your picture. Thanks for your good comment about my p-f.

you have an impressive portfolio. congratulations!

Czy moglbys uszczknac rabka tajemnicy swojej fantastycznej techniki? email: utila2002@yahoo.com

Stunning and captivating portraitures!! Thanks!! I'll be returning often!

Outstanding, great fine art photography ! I admire your work. Best regards, Helmut

I love the tones and colors of photos of yours!

great portofolio. each one of your portraitures is a winner!

!!! !!! !!! !!!

Wow!!! Your photos are a real inspiration to beginners like me.

intrygujace! zachwycajace! piekne w swej brzydocie??? Brak mi slow. rzuciles mnie na kolana. Pozdrawiam

I said that earlier, and i say it again, you are the king of portraits, i would love to learn from you, would like your suggestions on how to improve my portraits folder. cheers and thanks.

Wow, you have an amazing portfolio! Props!

I have to agree with Pradeep:)

Wonderful work you do! I really enjoy looking at your images.

It is hard to pick a favorite when each one of your images is of such high quality. Your work inspires.

i am very impressed by your work. your portraits lives. regards barbara

Dude -

Your work is off the hook, for real!

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Your portfolio is super.   The colors are so rich and the portraiture vivid.   Your website is really cool also.   Thanks for sharing.

this is incredible, incredible work. you have certainly taken "it's all in the eyes" to a new level.

bravo

I join the rest of the gang here, with high praise for these portraits. I could start a healthy debate now by saying that these are good enough to win praise and be published in Communication Arts.....the "Illustration Annual" not the "Photography Annual." This is a fine example of how much more elastic photography has become in these digital days. It breathes new meaning into Stieglitz's epigram, "the equivalent of what I saw and felt." For a century the emphasis was primarily on "what I saw" now "what I felt" has its day. Finally!

Great work Andrzej.

HOLY SHIT!

What a portfolio, what a style... superb!!

You have a stunning portfolio here. Amazing work. Please put together a web page describing your methods, even if you do so for just one image. Walk us through your process.

It is hard to say something origional with so much praise. Rarely does a portfolio cause me to stare with mouth agape causing work to come to a stop and my partner to join me at my comuter to ooooh and ahhhh. Your work is truly inspiring.

Looks like those old hand-painted black and white pictures (something I've tried and failed at). Really cool looking! I wanna try this!!

Stunning, absolutely stunning ! The expressions on the faces of your pictures are absolutely interesting. It makes me wonder what these people are thinking in their heads.....

Like Wes said, I also sat in front of my computer and went "Ooooooohhhhh...ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.........."

Wee-Ming

No other word is good enough! Absolutely STUNNING!! works of art! Congratulations!

The richness of these portraits is overwhelming!

Swietne zdjecia! Co tu duzo mowic. Po prostu swietne... :)

These pictures are showing what good pictures can do with people (read reactions above.....)

Very, very nice indeed.

Kind regards, Harry

Incredible portfolio. Thnaks for sharing.

All I can say

You are clearly one of the very best portraiture photographers - ever!!! Regards Paul.

Truly original portfolio. Considering how hard it must be to come up with new expressions in portraitry, its impressive that you manage to do it everysingle time. Keep it up please ;-)

Beautiful and very creative portfolio, stunning portraits.

I love your candid, interesting portraits. Always unusual and appealing!

I must be honest and say i i'm in two minds about andrzej's work.
The style and poses are some of the best i've seen
...but the colouring is utterly dreadfull.

I really like your portfolio. I love capturing people and emotions and you have done this so well. Do you ever have problems with people not wanting you to photograph them? I love capturing the moment or a feeling that a posed shot would not be able to. Again great subjects and great job capturing emotions.

Amazing stuff.

You truly deserve every accolade on this page. It must have been extremely hard work in addition to your stunning talent to acheive this look you have nailed down here. Well done Andrzej.

Beautiful portfolio - excellent work.

Hello Andrzej This is very surreal portfolio of portraits. On the one hand one can think there is nothing special about the poses of your characters, but the minute post-processing of images is applied each picture gains the story to go with. Excellent piece of photographer's workmanship. I would not mind to learn about the technique adopted. Best regards Tom(ek) Piotrowski Sydney, Australia

Simply Stunning!!

Just to say this is a wonderful portfolio with a really unique technique to get a person's mood. I'm just a bit disapointed to find that a "reasonable fee" for your technique is 200 euros! WOuldn't it be possible to use smaller resolution files that you can't print but that explain the process for something much more reasonnable? As I'm really interested in it, but I'm really far from paying a whopping 350$CAN for it (heck, I could buy tons of film or even a good prime with that)

some look like more paintings than photos. great!

It is obvious that Mr. Dragan is a hard worker, knows the "rules" of composition, studied the masters, and from his work, it would seem to me, a caring, warm individual. It is obvious he is a master of photographic manipulation, however, I find his images "overproduced" and excessively sentimental. In his effort to find the truth, he has produced something that is neither a painting nor a photograph and placed us in a plastic world of overly wrought character studies that are hidden by his consummate skill. This, I feel, detracts from the immediacy of the moment he is trying to capture. It is all too easy to be mislead by modern methods. Today we rely heavily on electronic image capture and processing systems. But to rely on them to replace our imagination can rob us of our immediate responses to the world and thoughts.

Too often, we all are dazzled by technique. Computers (mechanical devices) CANNOT think. They have no imagination. They cannot create. Many of us find it easy rely on these devices as substitutes for creativity, skills or lack of training. One of my teachers once told me to throw everything away but one eye. "Technique," he said, "is the soulless thief of art." More than one emphasized the good, old "KISS" principle (Keep It Simple Stoopid) and to use no more technique than necessary to communicate the reaction to the moment and crux of the matter. Really, not such an easy matter after all! Life is still messy!

What do you have to show? Hot air comes out both ends.

... but here's a KISS just for you, all the same. (Keep It Short Silly).

I agree with John Maitland, I like most of the work but I think it?s a little overdone. I have no doubt that Andrzej is a good photographer nontheless.

Your work is brilliant, not surreal. You keep the essence of light, texture and flesh and discard everything immaterial to the persona of the sitter in a grand flemish style. Your work extends beyond the visual, stimulating all the senses. It can be seen, felt and even smelled. Superbly done. Your work is unmistakable Dragan. Keep it up, encore, more. Bravo, Bravo!

Outstanding work. The colors are great and the photos play with traditional painting effects. It nice to see, that the style of an image can be so different with mild changes.

your works are so great and have an impressive character. i should learn a lot from you

How do you do this lighting? It?s amazing.

Wogule super! Dzjieki xx Khrystene

I agree with Pradeep. You are, indeed, a master of potrait photography and a great artist with camera. We are inspired and awed by your photographs.

i think your photos are kind of scary, but i like them very much!

Very nicely done! I love the depth of color and drama. You can feel the skin. Why aren't you shooting for vanity fair?

Good for You!

Hi Andrzej, I am so impressed by your work. You have a fantastic talent and eye for unusual motifs. Keep them photos comming :-)

Cheers Jorn

Thanks for sharing your wonderful art. These aren't mere pictures, these are true emotions. The way you capture the beauty of the human soul is outstanding. Thanks once again.

Oh yes, it can be officially declared. I'm in love with your gallery.

hello, I just wanted to let you know that I was very inspired by your work when My friend Darek M. showed me this web site. Immediately I was fascinated and inspired. So I began to try to mimmick what you do, I have only been taking photos for three weeks now but I invite you to look at what I am doing on my page. Some day soon I hope to do something comperable to your work. great stuff!!

super prace i z niewiarygodnie plastyczne, jezeli mozesz to powiedz jak uzyskac taki malarski efekt farb, piekne to jest i jestem ciekawy czy ja tez bym umial tak zrobic bartlomiej.ramza@wp.pl ... oczywiscie zaprasz do mojego skronego folio z gory dzieki.

I am astonished...I would be honoured if you give your opinion to my folder on "people"

my contratulations

Jest pan genialny. podziwiam pana fotografie... co za kadry i kolory, co za pomysly. mialbym do pana tysiace pytan

Wonderful portfolio with a unique technique.

Some of the best portraits i've seen. So much character in each shot. Excellent portfolio!

I have no words to describe how brilliant this portfolio is!!!! I'm not even going to try.

ale fajne te twoje portrety... a skad tego Lyncha wytrzasnales to ja nie mam pojecia. musze przyznac ze robisz sie klasykiem gatunku :)

I love your work... I could stare at it for hours...

..how can u put people under glass?.. this is really a biutiful tecnique i can't understand yet.. ..most of portraits are great expression of this.. maybee u have more to say 'bout?

Art critique is like.. well, there are a bunch of truisms that could apply here. Anyway, nevermind the critics. Art is a subjective experience, this much is self evident. Once you've reached the point where people are drivelling on and on and arguing about whether or not it's art, too cliche', too sentimental, too technically oriented, or whatever, you've achieved something most of us only would dream of - the ability to stir people up with your work. Stimulating endless rounds of meaningless philosophy of art disagreements is the highest flattery you can receive as an artist, I think :)

This stuff is absolutely beautiful and I always find myself referring to you when friends talk about their favorite portrait photographers, etc. The technical skill and artistic vision you have is very evident and whether or not people like your style, they probably can't accomplish near what you can in this arena. If you enjoy what you do, and it speaks volumes to at least some of us, that's what matters.

Three thumbs up!

YES INDEED THE BEST OF THE REST. TRULY GREAT. KEEP GOING.

Amazing portfolio. Great work.

Andrzej, yours is one of the most interesting portrait porfolio on photo.net! Stunning photos! Carlo

It's very hard to pass such a portfolio and not make a comment... despite the hundreds of ratings and comments.. Andrzej, I'm extremely impressed, extremely curious and simply mesmerized.

Excellent photographs and marvellous portfolio. Class of its own. Nice to have found it.

Cheers

Przyznam, ze trudno oderwac wzrok od Twoich fotografii. Gratuluje tez publikacji w prasie. 3mam kciuki i czekam na kolejne prace!

really unique

One of the best portfolio i have seen on pn. Your photographic skills are really wonderful.

impressive portfolio.Super tecnics.Cong...

I love your portfolio. Awsome!!!

absolute fantastic works !

absolut amazing works, a very special style! i like your portraits and the process of the images. everytime a pleasure to look your portfolio. very best regards thomas

I think your portraits are outCommon and outstanding! One of the best work in this genre here on PN

My hats of to you !

Cheers, Rafael

Very good! Adam

Your work is unique ! you're a MASTER ! Such a strange world in your work... Congrats !

the attention calls much to me your portfolio, each image a history that to count, very interesting, congratulations,

it's my opinion the most stunning and emotional evoking work I've seen in a long time. Not just PS work but techniques I may never be able to produce. Daniel

Your good.... it is a pity you don't think anyone else is.....

Wow! A terrific work here. Your style is very recognizable with great textures, tones and light and a judicious use of short DOF. Amazing!

fred

I like your works. Some of them i've seen somewhere else and remember very well.

exelent...I like the portrets very much...nice work

you are very popular among some of the photography lovers from Turkey :) your work is inspiring. greetings

..to what is already said above. I love your work. You see the people. That exactly is how portraits should look. Perfect...

I have no words to define your art! Thank you.

Andrzej, you have an amazing talent for unique portraits. Highest honors to you!

Foto di grande fascino. Eccellente lavoro!!! Andrzej sei tra i miei photonet preferiti

Saro

What can I say Andrzej...marvellous photos...but obviously that's nothing new to you...all your portfolio is stunning. You have very rare gift, you show us, let's say...the Gost in the Machine. I'm under great impression of your work...Pozdrawiam serdecznie i zycze dalszych sukcesow! Wojtek

I love your pictures. Please, a brief tutorial about your technique.

You my friend have become one of my most influencial inspirations. Nothing conveys character better than your work...Stunning!

WOW...

Andrzej, Your work goes way beyond. Perhaps less staging (although I must admit I like it). It is so damn Russian. Reminds me of my relatives whhen I was a kid. I anticipate new works. These have been here a while. Never the less You are the man.... At least on this site! This is the power of photography at its most organic. It is a sensual experience to savoir.

An excellent artistic portofolio with stunning photos. Great work. Congrats !

Russian? I think Mr Katz should look again and closer next time. Andrzej, your work is outstanding.

Excellent portfolio.

Andrzej, you make me want to hit the streets with my gear...... unfortunately its the middle of the night here. You are a huge inspiration! I love your style, your lighting teqnique, tone, colour, need I say anymore but "thank you for sharing your work!!!"

dragan is my idol tolga tacmahal

wowww wonderful portfolio.congrats..

I can only echo the sentiments above. Great work.

Warren

Andrzej,

First, I have been an avid photo.net follower for years and this is the first time I have ever posted a message to a photographer.

I agree with most on this thread that the condition of the girl is disturbing. I do not, however, feel that she was exploited in this photograph and I feel that you has no poor intentions with this image. While I don't like what I see in this portrait, I feel it is the single most successful picture I've ever viewed. As photographers I feel it is our responsibility to elicit emotion or to tell a story for either ourselves or for society. I find myself looking at it over and over again and each time there is a flood of emotion. In that regard this picture is a stunning success.

In addition to the emotional impact of this photograph, it is also technically excellent! Great job! The only hope I have is that this image evokes a realization in this girl that she is in dire need of help. She is gorgeous and I hope your portrayal helps her realize that she has an inner beauty that will enable her to have a successful modeling career without the need to starve herself.

Again, Andrzej, my compliments...

Your photography is exceptional and I feel the impact of your subjects spirit. But I have to ask, is the starvnig young women still alive? It is very upsetting to see her so thin? I hope she is ok now?

2 February 07

Beautiful work! Where would I find information on how this is done in photoshop?

i was late to see the portfolio.but visited your site. absolutely inspiring. very best reagrds.