Craig Shields

Craig Shields is a Graphic Designer and photo manipulator. His style is more graphic design than I am looking for in my own images, but his work is still pretty amazing.  I was more interested in his website, statement and portfolio than his graphic work for inspiration. You can check out his website to see more images. http://www.craigshields.co.uk/index.html

He does a lot of commercial work (thats how we make money :), freelance and with his full-time work. I am curious how many hours he puts into each image and how we acquires the model image, or if he starts completely from scratch.

Erik Johansson

He's a great manipulator...

..in Photoshop. I found his work when I was looking for some inspiration of Emily's winter scene artwork "Snowman at Sunset". I've seen a lot of photo manipulations but his are very clean and realistic. He doesn't cover them with vignettes and fog to blend scenes. And I love the creativity!

His website: http://erikjohanssonphoto.com

I also like his simple and clear artist statement : I’m a photographer and retouch artist from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.