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.

Sleeping beauty

Sleeping beauty

One of the things Maxim got from me is his ability to sleep with semiopen eyes. Sometimes they are wide open, sometimes they are open just a tiny bit. Can you see a light reflection in his eye on this picture? Well, that’s a tiny bit open eye…

On the photography side, I’ve postprocessed this image a bit. Original came out OK, but looked somewhat boring and casual. Firstly, I played with layers and color balance to get rid of the yellow tungsten cast as much as possible. I am still practicing my skills in this area. Than, I decided to try something that I wanted to try for some time now – selective blur. I’ve selected Maxim’s face, feathered the selection by 300 pixels, inverted the selection, and blurred by 30 pixels both vertically and horizontally the rest of the picture. The result looked much better than the original, but I thought that since I went this far, I should also add the glamour glow. I copied the layer, blurred the top one by 15 pixels in both directions, changed the opacity mode to overlay, and played a bit with the scroller there until I liked what I saw. Than I merged layers, flattened image, saved it, uploaded and published, and here is the result.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-05-05_POTD

Follow-up on KSP4

I know that I said that KSP4 is now over and everything, but there are few minor bits that I forgot to mention.

First of all, I said nothing about photo exsibition that took place at the festival. Yes, that’s right, there was a small photo expo with a few really nice images. Anyone could have shown their work and I didn’t pass that chance. It was my official display of images off the Internet. I had 10 pictures up. You can see all of them here. I linked to all of them before, but this way they are easier to see – all together.

Secondly, lots and lots of people were making pictures and videos of the festival. All of these materials are now getting linked to from this thread at forum.russiancyprus.net (skip to pages 3 and 4 for links).

Kakomalis 2005 – KSP 4

KSP crowd

KSP 4 is now officially over. Today I returned at 6:30 in the morning. It seems that with every KSP I am staying longer and longer. I also brought with me pain in every muscle, hangover, absense of voice because of shouting and singling too much, more than a 100 photos, and tonnes of positive energy.

KSP 4 was a success! More people than ever came to see and participate in the event. I think there was as much as 400 people. Lots of singers and musicians, with the main few who practiced a lot together before the concert. This time the stage was even bigger and music was even louder. There were plenty of photographers and video operators, so I hope they’ll start sharing the coverage soon.

And the main thing is that I started waiting for the next KSP before I even got home…

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-05-01_KSP4