It’s time to post something new on our blog. Katka (IG: kacaduch) and I locked ourselves in the studio for a while and then I wrote down a few tips for studio shooting based on my experience. I did almost no retouching to the photos, except for a few cosmetic defects, which I believe you will forgive me. I will be happy if this article serves as inspiration or broadens our readers’ minds. I will appreciate your feedback in the comments.

Writing a few words about my job or talking about it is always a challenge and I very much appreciate this opportunity. I want to thank the guys from FOMEI for their support and positive attitude. I mainly focus on portrait, lifestyle, and sports photography and for this occasion I chose the photos I enjoyed creating the most. In the following lines I will try to tell you their story and explain how I set my equipment to take them.

Radovan Bartek is a professional freelance photographer and retoucher. He works in a very close cooperation with Stanislav Petera. He is a retouch and montage lecturer at Light Garden Academy. Most of all, he enjoys taking creative cinematic photos. Here you can have a look at some of them and read about how they were made.

My friends from FOMEI asked me if I’d like to present 5 photos of mine. I accepted this offer, but writing is not really my thing, so please take that into account while reading my comments to the photos. I’m quite a good photographer but a pretty lousy writer.

So now it’s my turn to share some of my work with you and to tell you about the creation process. I made the selection out of all my photos I took in the last few years. I think these five represent me well and, at the same, there is a story behind each of them which is worth mentioning.

I’d like to share with you 5 of my favourite photos from the last year and tell you how they were created. I mostly shoot female portraits in which I kind of transform women into muses, fairies, and wild women. And there’s usually a touch of glitter! I like bright eyes and I consider them to be one of the most important things in a portrait. That’s why I can’t do without reflector panels which help me get light into eyes. If there is no natural light, I rely on LED lights – most often FOMEI LED RING SMD 23W and FOMEI LED LIGHT SLIM 15W.

I’d like to introduce you to five of my pictures, each of them accompanied with a short text. They are not necessarily my best photos but I’ve chosen them because I find them interesting. To be honest, I’m not quite sure that I would be able to pick five best photos of mine because I try to keep improving and that makes me look at my old shots in a different light.

Studio equipment can be used even in daylight to help you reach the right effect in your picture. David Šanda shoots a lot of outdoor photography – it may actually be what he does most – and now he’s written an article about using reflector panels in the countryside for you.