Blondes

For some reason I am shooting only blondes lately. Or maybe it is the dominant hair color in Russia? No idea. But with me picking up longboard skating (lol) and having some severely unpredictible weather, I have been taking a short break from shooting and spending more time thinking about what to shoot. I do enjoy the preparation wuite a bit. It doesn't have to be me running around the location (like in the Elements shoot) for 2 hours and then taking 15 great shots and calling it a day. An idea can develop while I am sleeping, watching a movie or skating )), and then emerge, sometimes completely unwanted, but pushing itself onto me to the point where I just have to go with it because nothing else works this day. Please note that this is only applicable to my very personal work, the examples of which are above.

I realized recently that I am also very fond of surrealist art and that had also had its huge influence on the way i photograph and process my pictures. I have always liked processing my shots in a way where it is not very clear just how much photoshop there is involved... Sometimes I will be working for 4 hours on a single shot, changing it so much that the RAW image will have nothing to do with the finished work (that is very rare recently, but it does solely depend on the way I have my ideas figures out)

for example there no photoshop in the sunny black and white shot. except that little swish - i liked the effect. The rest - just straight out of the cam. A Nikon d300 with a 30 year old lens (I am using tons of cameras now since I have pals letting me use some older gear)

so... what else... enjoy (or don't) the shots and please post your questions of you have any.

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Recently I have been fascinated with some fine art masters like Caravaggio. Tthis guy is on my top list... So the little house shot is my little attempt to start exploring that area. I am currently babying a concept involving lots more of similar styles. The problem is that it is really tough to put people together... oh, well, I'll talk about it some other time.