4. What, in your opinion, makes a good photo?
70-80 percent of a good photo makes a model. If we are talking
about events, then this is light, space, and most importantly –
people. If I see happy people who enjoy music, who feel free to
move and dance like it is the last time – I feel it. I feel like taking a
picture of it. And if we add a well-placed light to all this, the scenery
(or an interesting spot as a whole), we get good shots. Of course,
without the skills of the photographer to work in such conditions
is also not enough, but this is not the main thing, believe me.
I always try to analyze the end result. See how other
photographers take pictures of the same event. How they use light,
flash. From what angle they are looking at this event. It is always
interesting for me.
5. Which photographers influenced you and how?
The first photographer who inspired me (and inspires me now)
was my fellow countryman Igor Tsarukov. His naked portraits of
people, their bodies, movements – this is something special.
He has some other view on this world that attracts me. Now he is in
Kiev – it is warmer there (and I am not about the weather). I am also
inspired by Dmitry Pryahin, a photographer from St. Petersburg. I
cannot describe in words what he does. See for yourself.
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