Dark Sun

 

Pole Art II

Hey Folks :) 

Minulý týždeň mi prišla správa na facebooku, že som pozvaný na víkend do Brna k mojej sesternici, že pôjdeme na kocert skupiny N.O.H.A. a druhý deň strávime maximálne produktívne. Napriek celkom búrlivej noci (to všetko kvôli tomu geniálnemu koncertu...a pivu...a Jägermeister-u), sme sa dokopali do štúdia Decadance, kde sme mali nasledujúci program:
1. Pole Dance session - opäť raz som sa odhodlal a síce to nebolelo o nič menej ako minule, vedel by som si predstaviť sa tomu venovať. Každému, kto sa teraz usmieva odporúčam jednu lekciu. Alebo stačí aj pol hodina. Daaaamn it's hard, ale za to svaly makali aj na viečkach očí.
2. Vyskúšať AERIAL HOOPS a.k.a. čo Mike zvládne a čo nie a musím teda povedať, že to stálo za to. Je zaujímavé sledovať, ako sa vaše telo prispôsobuje novým veciam, ako pomaly nachádza balance a dovolí vám pohnúť sa zase o kus vpred.
3. Urobiť nejaký pekný, jednoduchý pole dance photoshoot, z ktorého fotky sú nižšie.

Cez víkend sa konala v Prahe súťaž POLE STARS a moja milovaná sesternica Lucia Štulrajterová tam spolu so svojou kolegyňou Pavlínou Neveselou vyhrali 1. miesto v kategórii DOUBLES & GROUPS. Gratulujem kočky ! Well deserved! ;)

'CAUSE WE LOVE BUBBLE GUMS

I did this photo shoot back in May 2014 with my baby girl Tukan. Basically the idea behind the whole photo shoot was to bring back temporary tattoos hidden inside of bubble gums that we used to buy when we were younger. I still rember how cool I felt when my mom bought me one of those. I got that feeling like it's a real tattoo. I was a cool kid... damn.

Me and Tukan we had to eat like 30 to 40 gums to get those bitches out and it was quite painful but fun (try to chew 20 gums at once - not funny at all... actually it is lol).

So after more than an hour and half we were ready to shoot! So we did. 

Let me just say that this is one of the prettiest girls I know. <3

SOCIALISM part I

A month ago I met my friend Simona. We were just chatting  about photoshoots and what we could do together. She came up with some very interesting ideas and I immediately fell for one of them. It was socialism.

Socialism as a social and econic system  is already behind us but when you visit houses and flats of your parents/grandparents you can still smell relics of the system. And that's what we did.
I did the photoshoot with two fashion bloggers Simona and Iveta. And we had the best time together. 

The place Sima chose was just amazing. Old, raw, full of spiders and dirty as fuck a.k.a. garden cottage. The right place for arachnophobists like me and Sima.

What I find really cool about this garden-cottage-experience is that I was able to look through 20 year old newspapers, old recordings, toys, clothes and things that actually meant something to somebody so many years ago and they haven't been touched for years because nobody cares about them anymore. They're just lying there...as a part of the history. People don't use them but they also won't throw them away maybe because these things have their own timeless value.

So this is the first part of our SOCIALISM photoshoot with a modern twist. Let us know what you think below in  the comment section. Thanks guys !

Jewellery - Femme Fashion

Photoshoot with Cisarove Nove Saty

Two weeks ago I did this photoshoot with Simona . It was so much fun I actually can't remember a photoshoot where I laughed so hard on the set. Thanks for that Simi
!

I have to say that walking and posing around Bratislava is better when you have #noknickersday , right Sima? :)

Here're some photos I managed to capture with this cockycoolbad lady. Grrr!!!

Lomo verzus digitálna zrkadlovka? / Lomo or a digital camera?

Žijeme v období, kedy sa z fotografov stavajú viac profesionálni editori fotografie ako samotní fotografi. Vidíme to všade okolo seba. Billboardy, časopisy, titulky, televízia, videoklipy, booky, internet proste všade dominuje obraz, ktorý je tak čistý, hladký a plytký, že nás zaujme maximálne na pár sekúnd (ak vôbec) a s prvým pohľadom doprava alebo doľava zabudnete, čo ste práve videli.

Netvrdím, že by sme mali prestať upravovať fotogragie, to určite nie. Sám som veľkým fanúšikom Photoshopu, ale niekedy mám pocit, že ľudia nevedia, kedy majú "Merge Layers" a kliknúť na "Save As". 

V Júni 2013 som si na narodeniny kúpil starý Lomo Lubitel 166+, pretože som v mojej digitálnej tvorbe istým spôsobom prestal vidieť nadšenie, ktoré som dovtedy pociťoval zo samotného fotenia. Potreboval som zmenu, niečo, čo by ma opäť inšpirovalo a rozšírilo môj pohľad na fotografiu. Vtedy som sa obrátil k úplným základom fotky - k filmom.

Zistil som, že fotografovanie je oveľa ťažšia a oveľa krajšia činnosť, ako som si myslel. Nemôžete "nacvakať" 300 záberov a povedať si, že niečo z toho bude. V tomto prípade musíte  veľmi dobre zvážiť, čo chcete odfotiť a ako chcete daný objekt zachytiť, pretože niekedy máte na filme iba 15 záberov. A keď nafotíte, stále neviete, čo ste vlastne odfotili. Bude tam dosť svetla? Zaostril som to dobre? Pretočil som film pred tým, ako som urobil ďalší záber alebo som zabudol a teraz sa zábery navzájom prekryjú? Je to úžasný zážitok, keď si konečne prezeráte vyvolané fotky. Sú iné, ako tie digitálne. Majú hĺbku, starý šum, svoje nedokonalosti, ktoré ich robia dokonalé a v niektorých prípadoch aj nadčasové. 

We're living in an era where photographers are becoming more editors of photography than ever. We can see it all around us. Billboards, magazines, covers, TV, videos, books, internet basically everywhere. The image is clear, smooth and without any deepness. It grabs our attention for few seconds (at max) and then we immediately forget what we just saw because it's uninteresting it's not unique it's just another retouched pic.

I'm not saying we should stop using editing softwares like Photoshop not at all! I enjoy it. I love to create things in Photoshop. I love how you can bring out your own vision of beauty through the Photoshop but sometimes I've got a feeling that people don't know when is the right time to "Merge Layers" and "Save As".

In Jun 2013 I bought a present for myself - an old-fashioned camera. I went to an e-shop and bought Lomo Lubitel 166+. I decided to buy the camera because I felt like my "digital" view on photography kinda loose its beauty. I felt like I'm not creative enough and my ideas were just bland. It was the right time to change something and to expand my capabilities so I turned to basics of photography.

I realized making a photo is much harder (and exciting) task to do than I thought it is. You can't make 300 shots and hope that some of them will be awesome. In this case you have to think twice (I usually think at least 5 times lol - Is it gonna be sharp enough? What about ISO? Is it the right angle? Etc.) before you actually shoot a picture because sometimes there're only 15 shots which you can get out of one camera film. Everything is manual. 

It's an incredible experience and such an exciting (if you screwed up not as exciting) feeling when you finally see your pictures. They're different than digital pictures. These pictures have depth, an old noise, imperfections that make them perfect and sometimes even timeless.

Tieto fotky som nafotil v Decembri minulého roku, spolu s mojou dlhoročnou kamarátkou Zuzkou. Jedno studené upršané ráno sme sa odviezli autom do Demänovskej doliny a po vyfajčení dvoch cigariet sme zablúdili ku jazeru v strede lesa. Bola neskutočná zima a fúkal veľmi nepríjemný horský vietor. 

I shot these pictures in December 2013 along with a friend of mine Zuzka. During one cold and rainy morning I took my dad's car and we drove to Demänovská Dolina and after we smoked 2 cigarettes we got lost in a forrest where we found a beautiful calm lake. It was freezing outside and the wind was extremely cold.

 

Bolo to zvláštne...veľmi tiché, a tak mrazivo pekné.  

It was weird...quit and so frostily beautiful.

Tu som zabudol pretočiť film, čiže v podstate sa pozeráte na dve fotografie  (moja "špecialita", ktorá niekedy vyjde, inokedy #absolútnevôbecanináhodouwtfnie)

In this picture you can see how I forgot to roll the film so actually you're looking at 2 pictures in one.

 

Okrem Lomo Lubitelu som fotil aj na digitálnu zrkadlovku. Skúste porovnať fotografie z Lomo Lubitel a zo zrkadlovky. Čo si o tom myslíte? Ktoré sa Vám osobne viac páčia? Môžete mi nechať Váš koment pod článkom. Ďakujem :)

During this photo shoot I also used my digital camera. Pictures below are taken with it. What do you think? Do you prefer pictures taken with Lomo Lubitel or with my digital camera? Leave your comment below. Thank you :)

 

 

Šialenstvo zvané Pole Dance / Pole Dance Madness

Minulý týždeň ma oslovila kamarátka Saška so slovami, že píše článok o Pole Dance a potrebuje k nemu nejaké fotografie, tak či by som nemal záujem urobiť Pole Dance photo shoot. Najprv som si nebol istý, či do toho chcem ísť. Nikdy predtým som nič také nefotil. A tiež to mala byť moja ateliérová premiéra. Každopádne ma to zaujalo a rozhodol som sa, že jej s tým pomôžem a spoločne uvidíme, čo z toho vznikne. Keď mi však povedala, kto bude tá osoba, ktorá mi má pózovať na tyči, potešil som sa ešte viac. Išlo totiž o babu (Ninku), s ktorou sme  plánovali spoločný photoshoot už strašne dlho. "Spešl Fenks" patrí Saške a Michalovi, ktorí nám asistovali pri fotení. 

 A tu je náš spoločný výsledok.



Last week a friend of mine (her name is Saška) asked me if I want to do a photoshoot for her upcoming article about Pole Dance. Firstly I wasn't keen on the idea because basically I hadn't done anything like that before. And it was supposed to be my first photoshoot in a studio so I freaked out a bit when the idea came to me. However I was interested in it. The whole idea captured my mind  because it was something new for me. So I decided to do it and if it works out then great. If it doesn't...well...whatever. But I knew it's gonna work out anyway. :)

Then Saška told me who's gonna be our model and I was really excited because it was our friend Ninka who's such a talented pole dancer and a really sweet person in general and we planned to do a photoshoot together for a long time.

Special thanks goes to our assistants and friends Saška and Michal.

 Here you can see the results of our work.

Fotenie prebiehalo v Mediálnom centre Paneurópskej vysokej školy v Ružinove (BA).

More photos coming soon :)

A na záver ešte nejaký ten ateliérový backstage.

At the end some backstage pics.