Beautiful saturation

August 10, 2004 3:58 PM

The stunning photography of Yann Bertrand.
posted by moonbird (26 comments total)

mentioned previously (yet not to this site or most of these pics) in this thread about another great photographer.
posted by moonbird at 4:01 PM on August 10, 2004

holy flaming wow.
posted by casarkos at 4:08 PM on August 10, 2004

if ya go to Yann Bertrand's site, you can download these and many more photographs at 1024x768.
posted by GeekAnimator at 4:12 PM on August 10, 2004

Please note that the site linked in the post is thieving Yann's bandwidth. Maybe Matt could do Yann a favor and swap the links out.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 4:27 PM on August 10, 2004

I'm utterly addicted to this gentleman's work. Also, I saw him in a documentary, and he appears to have the best life around: travel, meet exciting people, lean out of open helicopters.

re bandwidth theft: it's also undoubtedly promoting Yann's books, so I doubt it would bother him. Buy now!
posted by Pretty_Generic at 4:30 PM on August 10, 2004

also, I want TIFFs goddamnit!
posted by Pretty_Generic at 4:32 PM on August 10, 2004

Absolutely beautiful. I'm mesmerized by so many of these photographs.
posted by iconomy at 4:34 PM on August 10, 2004

P_G: It's only promoting his books if you know the pictures are his. There's no link on that site indicating where the photographs come from. You can only figure it out by looking at the url of the pictures themselves, something I doubt everybody does.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 4:46 PM on August 10, 2004

I think Bertrand has said that the captions and related data are more important than the photographs themselves
posted by Pretty_Generic at 4:46 PM on August 10, 2004

good point
posted by Pretty_Generic at 4:50 PM on August 10, 2004

I actually said fuck out loud when i saw those. Wow.
posted by bonaldi at 4:58 PM on August 10, 2004

Moonbird, great pics!

I have to mention he was also the subject of a Front Page Post which does contain many of these pictures.

[Just because I was going to post this and saw lots of dupes :P]
posted by page404 at 5:00 PM on August 10, 2004

Oh, and this FPP too!
posted by page404 at 5:06 PM on August 10, 2004

Please note that the site linked in the post is thieving Yann's bandwidth.

Yep. Naver is a Korean portal site that recently started doing blogs, too. This is bandwidth theft, as I mentioned here when I linked this, yesterday. Have a look here for some more similar work (in French) by this and other artists.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:33 PM on August 10, 2004

This is why I didn't go into photography. I don't have it, he does. woof...
posted by fluffycreature at 6:58 PM on August 10, 2004

London had an open-air gallery show of these a few summers ago. It was very cool to see them blown up to about 5 feet across. (apparently the show travelled all over the world)
posted by shoepal at 8:47 PM on August 10, 2004

Thanks for providing the link to Bertrand's own site. The pictures are gorgeous, though the relentless high contrast/high saturation look starts to feel forced after a while. They do an excellent job of tickling my wanderlust, and the original page was terribly frustrating because I'd see jaw-droppers like this, this, or this and have no idea where on the globe they might be...
posted by Mars Saxman at 10:53 PM on August 10, 2004

[this is good]
posted by normy at 11:42 PM on August 10, 2004

beautiful - thanks, moobird.
posted by tcp at 1:37 AM on August 11, 2004

moobird moonbird
posted by tcp at 1:37 AM on August 11, 2004

Get in a helicopter, go away from the city, get out your 645 camera filled with velvia, bump whatever the meter says down 1/2 to 1 full stop. Avoid shooing sky. There you go.

Oh, and have a huge travelling team to cart your hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment around, then get all miffed when asked about what you shoot with as if it "really doesn't matter." Bah.

I'm far more impressed when people can homebrew it.

Yeah, I'm jealous.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 11:54 AM on August 11, 2004

truly beautiful...thanks!
posted by amberglow at 11:56 AM on August 11, 2004

fluffycreature: This is why I didn't go into photography.
That's silly. (see civil disobedient)

shoepal: apparently the show travelled all over the world
It's in Vienna right now. The exhibition is set up outdoors in front of the Museumsquartier.

Civil_Disobedient: Get in a helicopter, go away from the city, get out your 645 camera filled with velvia, bump whatever the meter says down 1/2 to 1 full stop. Avoid shooing sky. There you go.
Exactly
posted by syzygy at 12:07 PM on August 11, 2004

For the lazy, a few amazing shots taken with far less expensive or exotic equipment.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 12:10 PM on August 11, 2004

Lovely, thanks moonbird!

(weathertop!)
posted by scarabic at 12:29 PM on August 11, 2004

I'm late to the thread, but...

wow. just wow!
posted by bullitt 5 at 6:51 PM on August 12, 2004