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Thursday, April 10, 2014
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In wedding photography, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

She always wanted to celebrate her wedding on the beach. She loved the ocean, the sand and the air. The beach was the perfect place. Being born and raised in San Francisco, she was familiar to how famous is The Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco Wedding Photography, as it is used as a background so many times by couples for their photo shoots. It was always nice and she did not think about it as a boring idea or place as it is used already by hundreds or maybe more people in their photographs.

A classic theme or place for your wedding photo shoot is not necessarily boring, overused or not sophisticated. It is all about the people that are getting married, their styles and their way of living. The classic and traditional wedding and photography is going to always be in style. It was cool to do it this way 7 years ago, it is cool today and it will be the same in 33 years. So you are never wrong when deciding to make it classy and simple.

The most beautiful pictures I have ever seen are the ones that are full of emotions and are easy to comprehend. The black and white photos of brides and their dads hugging, dancing or just looking at each other are always so powerful and so emotional. The classic photo of the bride’s dress hanging on the window, or the picture of the rings on the fingers, are also the classic and the forever in style photos, that somehow create a feeling of anticipation and preparation, that is so tight to the wedding ceremony and to the event. There is no need in effects, decorations or fancy cars to create this kind of photos, they are simply beautiful.

In case you are a marrying couple, that does not want to concentrate on the decorations, themes and different ideas, but more on the emotion and the process of marrying each other, you should definitely do it classy and keep it simple. In the end, we all understand that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. So when thinking about your wedding photographs, the idea of them being traditional, is always great. It is also giving you the sure feeling about not regretting it at all because it will always be beautiful, it will always be sophisticated.

Sunday, December 29, 2013
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The Art vs. the Capitalism

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Nowadays the photography is everywhere where the bored glare could fall. To imagine our world without photos is now unbearably difficult, if not even impossible. The photography has twisted the universal awareness, changing the views of the world for millions of people. The first time it happened, when the mankind has received the possibility to freeze the time in snapshots, when the Frenchman Louis Daguerre invented a way to produce an image. The second time of a universal twist was at the time of the appearance of instant photography, which has changed not only the consciousness of humanity, but also all the aspects of our lives. Commercial photography, creative photography, fashion photography and all the other countless species of this type of art complemented our life as naturally as if the still image was the only piece of the puzzle missing during the formation of civilization.

The genre of photography is constantly under attack by those individuals, who obstinately refuse to admit its artistic value. During the XX century photography had a secure right to wear the title of art. The uniqueness of photography as a phenomenon, as well as its incomprehensibility gave it a carte blanche. Today the fact of photography does not represent something extraordinary, and its status as an art had suffered severely. At the most luxurious art galleries of the most celebrated photographers one can endlessly hear a debate about whether it is necessary to consider it as a work of art. Today the picture is no longer perceived as a visual masterpiece, it is rather a way of transmitting information, a social media, through which one can send the desired message to the masses.

The term of photo revolution received its spread in our time due to the fact that the photos were finally able to get out of the shadow of other Fine Arts and become an independent genre. In today's educational world of photography, even given the status of a subject, photography has an extremely wavering position. But what are the objectives of those who join the rows of young photographers in the beginning of each student year?

Since the question whether photography may be righteously called art is still opened, the majority of youthful photographers are looking not for self-retrospective in pure art, but for a way to make more money.

The work of commercial photographer – that is the path most desired for the thousands of freshmen in every Liberal Arts major. Preferably, they seek for a place in a advertising cultural center, and the limit of dreams is New York. By some mysterious reasons, all these dreamers believe that the work of the New York commercial photographer is simple, and consists solely of imprinting the desired fragments of life in snapshots. There should be no special approach, no special idea, no some regard from the face of photographer, because his only task is to perform what he was told. The purposes of these people are supposed to be purely self-serving. In the view of the masses, commercial photographers are soulless machines, which serve only as a support for a camera, however machines with some incredibly huge fees, amazing acquaintances and no hard work whatsoever. After all, what hard work can be when you are talking about mechanical actions, a simple push on a single button?

This approach is insulting to the entire institute of art as a whole, and to the genre of photography, in particular. A commercial photographer in New York, or in any other place, for that matter, is no less artist, than Picasso or Da Vinci. Even following every instruction of the client, a soulless machine could have never created an image, which will captivate the accident gaze of an accident passerby. A soulless machine could have never perceived the human psychology to such profound depths, which are necessary to make the audience stunned. A soulless machine could have never seized the magic in every accessible object.

The development of photography as a separate art form, and its emergence as one of the most accurate and profound practices that reflect the existence of our society, does not cease to prove that there is yet something artistic in the so called capitalistic and “commercial” branch of art. All the classic types and genres of photography have become a tool of Modern Art, and the fact that photography captivates reality as it is, without any allowance of subjectivity, makes it even more profound and irrationally beautiful, than any other.