In order to participate in a photo contest “Polish nature” I woke up on Sunday at 6 in the morning to shoot some swans. I couldn’t find anything really interesting around me and swans are always looking good. I decided to try making a strobist photo, with very strong flashes from short distance. I went to Vistula river, near Wawel castle and found a nice place where I could throw bread pieces on ground. Soon a couple of young, gray swans came, but they didn’t look very well. Finally some adult swans swam to me and I started to shoot for next half an hour. It took 10-15 seconds for my flashes to recover after each shot but all went good and I made few photos that look very nice.
In order to participate in a photo contest “Polish nature” I woke up on Sunday at 6 in the morning to shoot some swans. I couldn’t find anything really interesting around me and swans are always looking good. I decided to try making a strobist photo, with very strong flashes from short distance. I went to Vistula river, near Wawel castle and found a nice place where I could throw bread pieces on ground. Soon a couple of young, gray swans came, but they didn’t look very well. Finally some adult swans swam to me and I started to shoot for next half an hour. It took 10-15 seconds for my flashes to recover after each shot but all went good and I made few photos that look very nice.
For last two weeks I am the happiest person in the world – I bought myself a camera that I didn’t even dream about. It is a used Nikon D2X, 18-135 lens and SB-800 flash. The camera works like gold but unfortunately I had to exchange the flash. It was a very painful experience to find out that my SB-800 simply stopped flashing after 30 minutes of work, and it happened during a wedding I was to photograph… very painful.
But besides that, all is going well. I am trying to participate in different photo competitions and recently I even found a job as a photographer and I feel great about it.
Tags: nikon d2x photography
During tidying up my computer files I’ve found some funny photos from the past. Back in 2005 I spent some time in Scotland, working as a photographer for a kilt company. After mine and my friends’ work was done we decided to make some photos of ourselves in kilts and stuff:
Guess, which one is programmer and which one is graphic designer ;]
Since I was the one to shoot photographs, I wasn’t on the photo ;]
I took one of those before, while making some other photos:
You can call me eclectic.
Punk’s boots, Scottish kilt, sport hoodie, rap-like gestures(?) and tired artistic face-look ;]
Tags: kilt, photography, scottish, tartan
Many years ago when I was starting working as a graphic, I was hired to make “how to tie a tie” animation. These animationas were very popular for some time. For some time they weren’t available, but now they are back. So, if you need to tie a tie, here you go:
All tie animations
Simple tie
Shelby tie
Half Windsor tie
Windsor
Dawno temu, kiedy rozpoczynałem pracę jako grafik, zlecono mi wykonać animację “Jak wiązać krawat”. Swojego czasu były one bardzo popularne. Przez jakiś czas nie były dostępne online, ale teraz są z powrotem. Jeśli więc chcesz się nauczyć węzłów, oto one:
Wszystkie animacje “Jak zawiązać krawat”
Prosty węzeł
Węzeł Shelby
Węzeł pół-Windsor
Węzeł Windsor
Tags: how to tie a tie, krawaty, tie, wiązanie krawata
Few years ago when I used to work as a freelance web designer, I was making photos for one restaurant. We let ourselves to make a little photo-joke. Never shown it anywhere, but now I found it during tidying my computer files. It is really good restaurant and no one was poisoned during making those photos ;-]
