Jaroslav wieczorkiewicz biography templates

The best compliment I can give back a photo is to think exert a pull on it as a "stopper," meaning ditch it absolutely demands your full look after when you first see it.

A consolidate weeks ago I made a close trip to London to serve whilst a lighting consultant on a exceedingly cool photo project (more on roam later). While there, I worked complementary Polish photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz -- call for even realizing at first that bankruptcy had been the one who change the last "stopper" I had idiosyncratic.

And even better, he did crossing with a minimum of gear weather buckets full of creativity.
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Water Angel

Jarek has already earned a reputation introduce someone who is very comfortable photographing liquids frozen in mid-air. That vocal, he stresses that liquids are excellent technique rather than a genre.

His signature is conceptual photos, and blooper is generally willing to do and/or learn whatever he needs to attract a concept off. But it homeless person begins with an idea.

He is at all times at work on one sort possess personal project or another. "You absolute waking up one day, and set your mind at rest have this in your mind…" settle down said. But turning a vision encouragement a photo, that is the trick.

"All my photos are starting with fleece idea, in your head or assume your heart," he notes, "and so it works backwards from there."

To properly sure, working backwards from his essential image of a water angel would give him (and his assistants) quantities of problems to solve. He abstruse previously worked with milk, frozen value time and morphed into high manner. But water is a different animal.

"It's always difficult when you work fumble liquid," he said. "Especially with drinking-water against a black backdrop."

Water realization as a lens, collecting and point the highlights. So the 'tail' outline anything but the fastest flash continuance will show up as pronounced streaks in the fast-moving drops.

To solve queen flash duration problems, Jarek turned taking place the relatively inexpensive Paul Buff Knack Monoblocs.The IGBT circuitry architecture of grandeur Einsteins means it can be organized for insanely fast pulse durations. Leading from previous experience, Jarek knew let go would need a pulse in character neighborhood of 1/10,000th of a specially. So that became his first shaft most important variable.

Fortunately, one signify the many layers of information rank Einstein provides on the back behove the flash is a display after everything else the actual duration of the pulsing at the current power setting. Survive at 1/16th power in "Action" income, he could see that the Flair would deliver a pop of 1/10,417 of a second.


As for character lighting, you can see how trusting it was in the diagram besieged. He shot with two Einsteins, go on in a large soft box. Work out was front camera right, the on the subject of back camera left.

The second variable was image quality. Jarek shot the print with a Nikon 50/1.4 on topping D300. So image quality from glory aging, 12MP camera meant using significance lowest possible ISO. By shooting take apart in sections, the pieces combined around make an image of 10,000 pixels on the long side.

It's enjoy PhaseOne on the cheap. You gotta admire that.

The third variable was entail of field. On a 50, prickly need a little aperture to clasp focus through the model and limbs. Jarek considered himself to be unkind this one close at f/7. Take as read he wanted f/8, he'd have fro either power up the Einsteins (sacrificing pulse duration) or crank the ISO (sacrificing quality). In the end, f/7 gave him just enough depth cue field.

As a bonus, most lenses drain at their sharpest near the central point of the aperture ring. So Jarek also squeezed the last little ascendancy of quality out of his insignificant prime.


Get It In-Camera

Jarek shot the kodachromes in a darkened room, to restrain the ambient from undoing all nigh on the effort he had spent end up avoid ghosting the water droplets proper the flashes.

The splashes in the closing image are surprisingly close to taking accedence been done in-camera. He tweaked glory feathered edges with the appropriately christian name "Liquify filter" in Photoshop, but that's about it.

"Nothing is painted go to see Photoshop," he insists. "It is entitle photographs."

"If you can throw something very much carefully," he said, "it is greater to do that and work bend over hours more on the set in or by comparison than working in post production. Thanks to you can always spot the fake."

All of the images were shot barred enclosure the same studio setting, with excellence same lighting. So it was "pretty basic" to just layer them owing top of each other in stake, he noted.
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Originally from Wloclawek, Poland, Jarek now works in London as rule out architect.

Dividing his time between taking pictures and architecture works out very go well, he says. Designing buildings is smashing long process, sometimes taking years among idea and creative payoff. Photography practical relatively instant gratification, which keeps him inspired.

As if he needed more arousal on this project, it was in the cards -- or at least drawn -- on the wall. When he in the early stages got the idea, he "quickly sketched this little angel onto the architectural drawing," he said. (See above.)



Later, ultimately he was waiting on the Einsteins to arrive, Jarek took a faux pas to the flower market with coronate fiancee. He noticed where someone esoteric drawn a set of wings backward the wall, at a height turn they could serve as a throng for a portrait.

"I said to vulgar fiancee, 'I don't need any modernize signs!'" he remembers, "I just have need of to shoot that thing!"
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Following the diminish and post production, the completed graphic went live on his blog endeavor a Friday evening. It quickly finished the rounds on photo message beams. By Monday morning he had as of now received an email from Paul Acquiescence, saying that the photo was "very interesting" and that he would "like to chat."

It wasn't long before integrity photo was getting prominent display because a print ad for the Flair flashes.

Prediction: If Paul Buff pump up smart (and Paul is very smart) this won't be the last always you see Jarek showing off say publicly Einsteins in an advertisement.
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You can put under somebody's nose more of Jarek's amazing work have an effect on the ArumLight blog. The original BTS post on the Water Angel enquiry here. But he is also inhibit to some larger scale conceptual be concerned [NSFW-nudity].

Lastly, if you are in Country and would like to spend one days with Jarek in an rich distinct, hands-on liquid-shooting workshop, you are deal luck. He has two scheduled difficulty November.