Maks Swiderek

Natural (#32030)

One of my first photos of Mia. This is probably the 2nd or 3rd week we’ve had her so she’s around 2 months here and clearly a natural model. The reason I post this photo in my Chronicles is because it’s unaltered – natural. I bent my flashgun to point at the wall to the…

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20/08/2014

Chronicles

cat, flash, flashgun, light, lighting, makss, model, natural, pet, Photography, studio

Day 4: Roughly Close.

A hairy guest on my carpet…

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19/08/2014

Macro

Black and White, close, eye, hair, insect, macro, makss, moth, nature, Photography, wildlife

Day 3: Just.

Pretty lucky with this shot. It isnt that obvious but the moth is actually about to take off. It was obviously accidental and I’m especially lucky with the right comb being in focus. Sadly the scene isnt very exciting so the photo looks quite bland.

Maks S

18/08/2014

Macro

flight, fly, insect, makss, moth wall, nature, off, Photography, take, wildlife

Day 2: Stay or Leave.

I was really looking forward to august since weve had a swarm of butterflies around our buddleia bush last year. I checked up on it every other day for a month and thebest I could catch was this… and it’s not even on that plant. Any lepidopterers on here know anything about this years butterfly…

Maks S

17/08/2014

Macro

butterfly, dark, green, insect, leaf, lepidoptera, macro, makss, Photography, plant

Macro Week #4 – Day 1: Among The Dark.

Very disappointed that I clipped the highlights but really wanted to keep the stamen well exposed. I was aiming for a glowing, luminance effect on the flower but didn’t want to overdo it with photoshop (my go-to excuse for not learning PS).

Maks S

16/08/2014

Macro

anther, dark, flower, glow, macro, makss, nature, Photography, pink, plant, shadow, stamen

This is a follow-up from yesterday’s post that I’m leaving untitled as it’s meant for the “Glimpse” collection. Also, tomorrow begins Macro Week 4. Come MW53, I will put up prints of 7 best photos from the previous 52 weeks (this might happen soon, I’ve really gotten into macro photography and already have material for…

Maks S

15/08/2014

Glimpse

Black and White, dark, dream, glimpse, hands, light, lighting, makss, melt, Photography, plastic, portrait, shadow

House

Was invited to a far removed birthday party, decided to break the awkwardness of not knowing anyone by taking photos of the guests. These images are just corrected for contrast and exported in Black and White. The blur was created with my makeshift 50mm F1.8 tilt-shift lens.

Maks S

14/08/2014

Portrait

Black and White, blur, contrast, dark, focus, house, light, makss, party, Photography, portrait, process, shadow, shift, tilt

Torted

I think this is something I’ll be doing more often. Finding quirky shops and houses and creating these undistorted (hence torted), postcard-like photos.

Maks S

13/08/2014

Walks

book, geometry, makss, parallel, Photography, shop, shot, square, store, straight, street, symmetry

Lumos (#30205)

This photo started something my course-mates and anyone who’s ever been to the pub with me since, loathed and despised. I started experimenting with off-camera flash and portraiture. This is obviously staged but since then I tried to take these photos in situ, without people noticing (until the inevitable flash). I still class myself as…

Maks S

12/08/2014

Chronicles

camera, experience, experiment, flash, light, makss, model, off, Photography, portrait, practice, pub, shadow, stage

Maks S

11/08/2014

Glimpse

Black and White, contrast, dark, glimpse, light, makss, Photography, portrait, shadow