PicsArt Monthly PicsArt Monthly Magazine June Issue 2015 | Page 20

Where do you get your ideas from? Each of my photos is a scene from real life. That is the perfect source of inspiration for me because there is so much beauty to it. Perhaps on my way to work, observing the world around me could inspire my next photograph. Of course there are changes that I add to the reality, such as characters, props, location, and light... I am constantly involved in a search for inspiration and ideas. We live in exciting times. Everything that happens in our lives is a unique source of inspiration. There’s no need to steal someone else’s idea. Rest assured that any artist from the 18th or 19th century is very jealous of us. We can live anywhere and create anything and show it around the world. Everything is in our hands. Your shots seem to have a realness to them. How much of what you do is real and how much is done on the computer? 20 | PicsArt Monthly I spend a lot of time preparing for the process, so all the effects are real. Of course, each frame is scanned and edited on the computer but the base is created on the filming location. The post-processing on the computer cannot make anything good if the original photo is bad.