Category: Photography

I love photography. For me, it’s like painting, but better. And more accurate. And unlike painting, I can actually participate. I am not a big success or great master by any means. But I enjoy taking pictures. I also enjoy looking at other people work and sometimes sharing it. When I do, this is the category that I use.

Explosive Photoshoot – Behind the scenes

If you think that the only thing that separates you from professional photographer is  a more expensive camera, watch this 2-minute video.

That’s a team of at least 3 people – photographer, model, and a make-up artist (not counting the person making the video).  It’s not just a a single shot, but multiple takes, even with all the post-production editing.  It’s not just a cool idea, but hours and hours of work.  And that’s not even counting all the effort that went into the learning curve.  But, when you factor all that in and add a little luck, what you get is this.

Great work, Marios!

Lada

Lada, also known as Zhiguli, is brand of a car from my home city – Togliatti, Russia.  While it’s somewhat known around the world, I was still surprised to find it as a theme to a Flickr blog post.  After all, Lada cars were never known for the beauty of their shapes or lines.

Interestingly, Flickr blog post talks about the end of production for Lada 2107, but none of the images in that post are of that model.  Flickr crew is not to blame though.  There are so many models of Lada cars in existence, and they look so similar, that not even every Russian will be able to tell which is which.  And on top of that, the blog post links to a pool of Lada car images, where pretty much every model is presented.