Nisa Capoeira

Nisa Capoeira

Had great time shooting these amazing guys. Next time - proper lighting gear ;)

DYI Beauty Dish test

DYI Beauty Dish test

various types of lighting gadgets keep to amaze me :) this time very simple beauty dish made from plastic bowl and piece of cardboard, stick in the sb-600 with omnibounce - the look you get is fantastic (i think).

create your own: http://image-guy.blogspot.com/2008/03/make-your-own-beauty-dish.html

workhorse

workhorse

even the base model is quite powerful, and actually much cheaper than exact same configuration from Dell

playing with lights again

The Beer

feels a lot like old days when i played with lights in blender, to achieve certain effect ;)

my first strobist experiment

my first strobist experiment

For anyone into photography, kind of must-read stuff unless you know what are you doing (mostly pro shooters? :) ).

The 101 archive gives intro into gear and techniques, then the "on assignment" part is covering about 100 cases, with results and description how it was done. Great thing is, the approach is very minimalistic, suggesting cheap/few gadgets and trying to achieve as much as possible.

Beware, it's also very addictive read, so be sure nothing is coming in the next few hours.

http://strobist.blogspot.com/

moo cards

moo cards

got printed these special "minicards". I quite like the (printing) services around flickr (blurb, bighugelabs, zazzle, moo etc), as it takes your photos to another level or even makes them real things :)

New Snow

new snow

Well over 50cm, really hope for snow-covered winter as it was 2 years back.

Parked Glider

real glider

Horses

DSC_5614

Visited parkur in Martinkovice, took just few shots, as the sun was quite totally wrong for taking photos :/

more shots here

Photographic weekend

leader of the pack

Spent most of this weekend looking through viewfinder :) We attended multiple starts of hot air balloons, then visited horse show jumping training and also i managed to take long-planned shots of parked gliders.

Back from vacation

Skógafoss valley

Been to Iceland for a week, slowly uploading photos to flickr.

Extraordinary experience

the ultimate flying device
Originally uploaded by Petr Vlk

Yeah, didn't blog for quite some time (and i'm not even gonna promise to start again :) ).

We had most exciting "Ballooning" weekend. First we went to see balloon start in the saturday evening, and then we actually flew the next morning.

Best-of gallery is at flickr.

If you ever wanted to try this, do! It's way better than you imagine ;)

so finally!

World of details

Yet another gallery

Count with me:

gallery at imagiag.com (broken)

gallery at imagiag.com/koudy (kind of working, only dog's photos)

bubbleshare (even I don't remember the login/url)

picasaweb gallery (dtto)

flickr (very few shots)

So today I upgraded the flickr account to pro status, and will try to stick to following scheme:

koudy's blog will be used for his photos

anything else will be on flickr

the flickr URL is: http://flickr.com/photos/petrvlk/

let's see ;)