Cut, Cut, Cut.

It's all about cutting. I have to confess i was amazed when I see an alternate framing on one of my picture. The funny thing that the cropping was made by Facebook. I took some photos during a new band's concert. I've sent the best 100 pictures for them, and they uploaded to their band profile. I've checked the pictures, just to know that the watermarks are still in place.
And than. Facebook made an automatic crop (thumbnail view of the whole album) which actually made my picture better.
Just to show what i'm talking about.
The original:

And how facebook modified it?

Almost a CD cover. Well, i would be happy if they would use my picture as a cover. :)

Meanwhile i'm in a big project now. I'll try to create my own DIY beauty dish, to let me have the chance on controlling the light. Well, at least i'll able to strat learning.
Plan is based on the Chinatown Special. Well, i'll see. :)

Feedback

More than a week away from my previous post, and now, i've seen a video (from a community site) which was a good feedback from my "job".
In the previous post I've reported about a session on the Pandora's Box concert. Now, a small music video is out on youtube based on the pictures taken during the concert. Watermarking is a good thing. :)

What can I say. It feels so good. :)

Boat of the music

Finally i could take some holiday from my job. So, i was really happy when i was invited to an event on the Hungarian  Music Ship (A38).
It was a birthday party of the band (Pandora's Box) with a special guest (Időgép)
It started as a usual concert event. But when the lights went down  I was shocked. I've never faced a light setup like this before (as a photographer). Now, I know why i can read everywhere the description: ,,Constantly changing light".
It was. Red, blue yellow and robot lights. At the beginning, i took approx 40 shots with no success. Over AND underexposed parts, burnt out... Horrible.
But than. Somehow it became clear how i can record those lights.
It was a real challenge for me.

Summer in Greece

Last summer. I  was able to get some of my holiday and organize a trip to Greece. Destination was the island of Rhodes. For a guy like me the sea was something unbelievable miracle. And the whole island was something unexpected. The people, the sand, the sun, the sunburn ( :) ) the colors (all kind of blue, and white).
It was amazing. And of course, i took my DSLR to the holiday. That was the time, when i first tried to shoot in Manual mode, the first time when i forgot the camera on high iso, etc.
The best vacation ever. (also engaged my girlfriend there :) )

Getting to know each other...

Some days had been passed since my last post. But now it's time for the next one.:)
As an introduction i have to say. Nyikita and myself are now getting to know each other. A few weeks ago we just started it @ Septemberfest (The beginning) and a continued with this on KaoszFest (Chaos Festival). I took some days at home, taking pictures of the usual themes @ home (My cats etc, just to know Nyikita, The Nikon D90).
Based on the previous experiences I was looking forward to the opportunity for the next concert event. Unfortunately i couldn't get in to The Epica concert which was held @ Budapest. So the next possible was the Super Bad Heroes in the Crazy Mama.
At first time, i forgot one thing: the distance. I attached the 50mm lens at home, and i haven't picked up anything else.In the first half an hour i was really upset because of this. But later on i had to admit that this lens is perfect for these kind of events. (well, maybe in some time I would like to have one of this, but that is quite far in time from now)
I think i did a quite good work (took miles with walking around the stage to get the composition. Well, disadvantage of the fix lens) and despite that sometimes i screwed up the shot because i forgot to re-adjust my settings, and lost great moments because when that came, i was really at the other side of the room, i have to say. I've learnt a lot from the last two times when Nyikita and me were shooting bands. :) (Now i need to mention, that i'm not insane when i'm impersonate my things, but i really like to believe they have souls. And it easier to scold if you can name it:) )
And as always, lets share the results.

Photoshop....

First of all. I don't really like Photoshop. And the ,,Ok, i have a nice picture let's enhance to make it rock..." thing.

I like my pictures as they are. But sometime. I can feel something hidden in a pic. Let me show what am i talking about.

Last time, out at the Kaosz Fesztival there was a girl, who totally refused to be on a picture. She was waiting for a band, and that was all.

Well, i did not gave up. And when i saw her sitting on the steps, i saw something...

Original:

Seemd to be sad, but really she just covered her face with her arms. Well. What i saw...

Depression is invisible

I know, it's not perfect. As i told, i don't really like PS, and altering the image... But this time. I think it was useful.

Animal - The Cat

I've fond a lot of articles online about animal photography. Well, for me it was "easy".

I have two cats now. And we're recording the usual day by day happenings via a blog. For that the good pictures are essential. So i had to make good photos about the girls. For the record, i just took photos about the cats in the reporter style. So just be there, wait until something interesting happens, and shoot.

I have some favorite  of the few hundreds photo i took about them (and with these i was able to know my camera, how to use the manual mode, etc).

And the result. Well. :) I think i have the most beautiful cat in the world. :)