Notes about my work

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Thoughts that I often follow, phrases that I often use (often - comic):

  1. Favorite camera - the one in the hands.
  2. A favorite picture is a picture of a loved one.
  3. The photographer quickly and accurately determines the movement of the entire shooting.
  4. The photographer assumes all responsibility for his actions and decisions.
  5. Contrast kills color.
  6. Nikon or Canon? It doesn’t matter when there is money.
  7. Nikon or Canon? The correct answer is 'go to photography school'.
  8. Nikon or Canon? Photoshop always wins!
  9. The photographer is rated on the basis of the five worst shots (the Lynx taught me this).
  10. Cold? Learn to take off with gloves.
  11. Cold? Shoot in the studio.
  12. You take pictures of the bride in winter, in the cold, and everyone is frozen - you are a loser!
  13. You are filming a pregnant bride in the winter and only the registry office - congratulations, you're done!
  14. My best photo was taken with 'not what', but 'with whom!' (Look for someone to shoot!)
  15. My best photos were taken 'not by what', but 'where and when!'. (Look for the location and time of the shoot!)
  16. In most cases, you take pictures of what is inside of you and how is inside of you.
  17. Yes, I photograph flowers and birds - I have flowers and birds inside.
  18. The client is always right. It's a service industry baby! If the client says that he does not have a double chin - remove the double chin! In photos from DSC_1987.JРG to DSC_9000.JРG inclusive!
  19. Why take one photo if you can take two? (this is my favorite saying).
  20. Pleiner in summer, studio in winter.
  21. A wedding photography at the beginning of the journey is a beautiful illusion.
  22. Only an idiot can dream of becoming a wedding photographer in Ukraine. One needs to dream about becoming a very good wedding photographer. I dream most often about how to add another review.
  23. I am an applied mathematician by education and I know what percentage to give for a client.
  24. Sharp for the client! Sharp customer!
  25. Noises - to print!
  26. Photoshop to the priests, if you have the usual TN.
  27. It's disgusting to look at your pictures processed on a bad monitor. Bought a cool camera? Buy a cool monitor!
  28. 100 weddings - and you're a cynic!
  29. As a surgeon, I cut people in batches.
  30. It seems to me that an experienced surgeon is most like an experienced photographer. Both are aware of the insides of people.
  31. My operator Kolya always says - there is sun and no sun - diaphragm five and six!
  32. My cameraman knows photography better than all these photo gurus. He says - take pictures of people? Be a psychologist!
  33. For two years I could not see how the light falls on some photographs, I was always surprised that other pros immediately see and recognize complex or interesting light in the photo. Those who take up photography are blind, they have to learn to see.
  34. I can go to ordinary films and watch them in 3D. Damn brain guesses about light sources.
  35. Models look at facial expressions, members of the forum look at the background or sharpness, bombiles look at the budget, and pros know the behavior of the first three types.
  36. I do not like 'soap', 'hole', 'carcass'. I use other words.
  37. The first mistake many novice photographers in our countries make is the hellish lightroom presets.
  38. World! Work! Fix!
  39. I am ashamed of 99% of my shots.
  40. I delete more photos per day than some take in my whole life.
  41. The idea that many homebrew photographers can design a lens with crystal lenses with zero aberrations does not go out of my head, but ask them to show at least one picture - they dissolve like fog.
  42. One of my favorite photos - Pale Blue Dot and her description by Carl Sagan.

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Comments: 74, on the topic: Notes on my work

  • Lynx

    43 - what would you eat?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Sometimes yes.

  • Vyacheslav

    Gathering Golden Thoughts)
    One of my models said: with a photographer - as with a gynecologist: no secrets. (It's about the need for a trusting relationship)

  • Mick

    Vitally))

  • Peter Sh.

    A simple person (viewer) sees the composition and colors. He does not see soap, noise, haze and littered horizon.

    An empty person does not know what a skinton is. And she doesn’t want to know.

    • Oleg

      And thank God, after all, hordes of skin dodgers have already flooded all the Internet.

      • Peter Sh.

        Just because of them, the process of training beginners can drag on for years. Or maybe not lead to anything at all. So they will sit and puff on the forums about skinton, soap, noise and other garbage.

  • Alexey

    41 straight to the point :)

  • anonym

    1. Shoot and process as you like!

    The rest does not matter: either you are a Genius, and the customers are…, or you are also…, but of a different type. Then no one will help ...

  • anonym

    About Pale Blue Dot: Arkady, look carefully with an experienced eye at NASA photos from the eighties-nineties ...

  • Peter Sh.

    There are professionals, and there are Masters. And there’s no reason to pay

  • anonym

    Nikon or Canon? The correct answer is go to the psychiatrist.

  • Yarkiya

    Well, the competition has begun, who will blurt out something steeper than something.

    • Lynx

      Census ... in comments

  • Dim

    There is a homegrown photographer, and there is a photographer assembled at the factory.

  • Rodion

    “If the client says that he does not have a double chin - remove the double chin! In photos from DSC_1987.JРG to DSC_9000.JРG inclusive! "
    The main thing here is not to leave the third one ...

  • Jury

    Photo from p.42. always reminds: "..for dust you and to dust you will return." Carl Sagan's speech is about the same. I liked about the hellish lightroom presets, they are really hellish :)

  • Paul

    100 weddings - and you're a cynic!

    How many times is a cynic already?

  • Denis

    Wow! Very interesting, instructive and inspiring!

  • Konstantin

    37 - yes, it's a scourge !!!!! no matter how many pictures (BUT WITH WHAT COLORS!) are sniffed by clients ... sorry ... but (and unfortunately), clients themselves probably want to see hellish colors instead of the meaning of the photo ...

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Hell colors stand out strongly, many consider it a “masterpiece” treatment. Many clients ask for some hellish color like that photographer over there.

      • Konstantin

        yes, which is strange, such “acid mongers” are also paid .... sometimes I think too, but do not care about the meaning of the photo, let's burn it…. but I can not..! many consider them “no… I'm a cool photographer”. but I think over time they will also regret these photos as now many swear at the photo a few years ago “like in a frame, like a cut out head in a pinocchio suit” and that kind of trash

      • Novel

        corpse skinton please!)))
        I want to look more epic!

    • Michael

      Like it or not, sleep my beauty ...
      Tastes could not be discussed. Not everyone understands different areas of art, different photo processing. Clients are also people, with their own taste, or with its absence (although maybe it is a different taste?))

  • Denis

    oh Confucius!

  • Girl with a paddle

    A photographer friend of mine says: “Heroes don't die on toilets, and a good photographer doesn't complain about bad technique” :-)

  • anonym

    the sun is and there is no sun - aperture five and six! liked it!

  • Serg57

    "Refreshing" humor of the author decorates the site, revives the reviews :) :) :)

  • igor

    Thanks!!! Everything is honest, with humor and is very necessary for everyone who uses your site. Sincerely. Igor

  • Vladimir

    regarding item 9. The sound level of the orchestra corresponds to the level of the weakest musician (not mine)

  • Stas

    To paraphrase - take pictures and come what may.

  • Basil

    Arkady, to be honest, I didn't like the post. Categorically. The second point is just disgusting. The rest are in the style of “Love jokes but don't love jokingly”. I did not expect from you.

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Like it or not like it - like in the photo - like it or not.

    • The Hedgehog

      This is categorically disgusting if the beloved is disgusting .. (

  • anonym

    See the invisible.

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