About two weeks ago, some very nice and creative people managed to write the nicest magazin you could get in our country. It’s called “Revista de povestiri” (The Short Story Magazine) and it’s just great. There’s not much I could say about it that makes any sense in English, but if you’re into the British sense of humour and have a pretty good feel of the Romanian language, then you’ll be in for a treat.
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On Thursday, March the 22nd, at 7 o’clock PM, I have the pleasure to invite you to my “Introduction to Product Photography” Workshop at iStyle Cotroceni. I will be your teacher on Thursday evening and I will be teaching you what you need to know in order to photograph a wine bottle on a white background.
The workshop is good for beginning and also for more experienced photographers that want to study photographing objects with reflective surfaces. We will be photographing by tethering the camera directly to a 27 inch iMac and the resulting images will also be available in real time on the existing iPads in the store. For editing we will be using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Mac OS.
The workshop is free and it will take place in iStyle Cotroceni, located inside AFI Palace Cotroceni on the Champs-Elysees alley, Thursday, March the 22nd 2012. You can join us on Facebook also (online confirmation is not mandatory): http://www.facebook.com/events/113502335447619/
See you on Thursday.
This is December the 17th, and tonight Urma was going to hold yet another public confession, this time in Bucharest’s Jukebox Venue. It was going to be their last concert of 2011 and one of the ideas behind this concert was to help Santa Claus deliver some gifts to some lucky people, even though they’d be delivered a little before their normal date. The gift I made was simple, but from the heart. It was the best photo I ever made at a concert, printed on large, one meter wide photographic paper. I wrote a little about it in a previous post.
The concert day had come, and now the best part of my job was about to begin.
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Voi scrie un articol destu de scurt, pentru a vă lăsa să citiți reviewul scris pe blogul F64. Am apucat să iau pe ultima sută de metri un GoPro HD Hero 2 de la F64. Eram destul de entuziasmat, pentru că testul camerei urma să fie făcut pe munte, cu schiurile. Nu pe pârtie, ci în Munții Baiului, unde aveam cel puțin un metru de zăpadă proaspătă.
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Because I’m stuck inside, having sustained a knee injury, I now have the chance of writing my blog. I’ll start with a non-standard photo shoot, shot for www.skivirus.com T-Shirts. The shoot was relatively unprepared and took place under the frozen eyes of Catalin and Rares, administrators of the skivirus.com forum, Romania’s best ski and snowboard online community.
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In a word: wonderful. I’ll start by thanking you for coming and I hope you know it’s been a pleasure to be able to make this workshop. I also thank the crew over at iStyle Cotroceni. The store makes an effort to help photographers, and I, with their help, do my best to make events like these exist. I already feel like home there.
We talked about how we can “build” an image through lighting and about a few details we should focus on. I insisted a little more on the technical side, because many people are afraid of the technical side. Through propper understanding of basic lighting technique, that “barrier” can be set apart and we could pay more attention to the actual image. I hope I turned things around a bit for you.
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Friday, January the 13th at 19:00 o’clock, I’m hosting a (free) photography workshop named “Food Photography 101″. The workshop will take place at iStyle Cotroceni and will last for about an hour – an hour and a half. The main goal of the workshop is to present the basic techniques in food photography, offering a good first-step to beginning photographers and some useful tips and tricks to more experienced ones.
It’s gonna be a cool and relaxed workshop, the one you’d expect at an Apple Store, and my main concern will be you going home with a good-learned technique and approach. Even complicated images can be broken down into simple techniques, and knowing how to do that can make your life a lot easier. After all, food photography is more based on shape and colour, and less on complicated technique. By learning the basics right, you’ll be able to concentrate less on the technique and more on the image itself.
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Right before I turn everything off and get ready for the new year, I leve you with the best app you can get for photo editing on iOS. The reason I’m writing about this now is that they’ve just offered if for free (for a limited time).
Snapseed is an app made by Nik Software, known for their great Photoshop and Capture NX plugins. It can handle RAW files and has a lot of editing tools, with Selective Adjust being the flagship tool, using the U-point technology, similar to Capture NX2′s Color Control Point..
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Sylights – www.sylights.com – is a pretty simple iPad app that enables us to create lighting diagrams. Whether we saw a lighting scheme that we want to remember, whether we thought of a lighting scheme and we want to make a plan for our next shoot or we want to write a tutorial, we need to make a lighting scheme. This free app comes right in hand.
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Last week I had a pretty interesting photo shoot. I had to make a couple of business portraits of Răzvan Ziemba, CEO of Network One Distribution (ex. Asesoft). The time I had with him was extremely limited, and unlike my last 10 minute shoot, I wasn’t in my studio and the stake was a lot higher.
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