tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-471180309277029322024-02-08T02:07:45.283+01:00Ales Bravnicar's Photo JournalExhibiting creative photography to the masses.Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-56252980112187820462021-02-16T16:23:00.002+01:002021-02-16T16:28:52.612+01:00Testing ELAN VOYAGER, the world’s first fully functional, folding, all-mountain ski.<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ldVhnVQk4f3ZsC906bEjsnlOjx7oJYlm-uuprD2-TkU9rycobWLVCbTQuZ5ddSKD4c5G2dde1Y-Orf3HGXTQUYTLVqFOIuCbhkvzen-qMjqaTbXtXnyEKrL-CYoaKKtzt5CVU53-OdM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ldVhnVQk4f3ZsC906bEjsnlOjx7oJYlm-uuprD2-TkU9rycobWLVCbTQuZ5ddSKD4c5G2dde1Y-Orf3HGXTQUYTLVqFOIuCbhkvzen-qMjqaTbXtXnyEKrL-CYoaKKtzt5CVU53-OdM/w300-h400/Voyager.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In a small village of Begunje, tucked neatly under the steep hills deep within
the mountainous <span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Gorenjska </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">region of </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Slovenia, next to pretty old
red roofed houses and churches lies </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the headquarters of </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Elan
company. </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWWlgqPvJRr3YNLt4nLycBpNXBAglSartBuQfZ6JUfLcGd_KFcSs7TSJs8swRprw3mchbdVjKgX98C_p3AQ__pGG5m2cPhg9ox-t4VRAJsaloJ9WwEI0WYk6aE60O4G8RKr9gziYUxAls/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="1000" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWWlgqPvJRr3YNLt4nLycBpNXBAglSartBuQfZ6JUfLcGd_KFcSs7TSJs8swRprw3mchbdVjKgX98C_p3AQ__pGG5m2cPhg9ox-t4VRAJsaloJ9WwEI0WYk6aE60O4G8RKr9gziYUxAls/w320-h311/Elan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span>Elan is a ski manufacturer from Slovenia
every local knows <span lang="SL">very well</span>.
Slovenian kids are “born on Elan skis”, as the national saying goes. The company
that graced many world championships and became world famous when <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">skiing ace</span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Ingemar Stenmark</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> won three consecutive </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">World Cup titles </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">on Elan skis</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
</span>has over 75 years of experience hand-crafting
the best skis in the world for individuals,
families and pros who live the skiing lifestyle. <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLdOooneqnpO6VvSVgTQWPhznb0HwF_AVTrdD94HgZUm9X3AzDloPZlAYt8lSInrrLEXIZ0sHMOmmQs5O75E0NELMFgZdfSky_0n8qeroRYjkXOkhXgj4B53TU7HKl_x25LIyg_zhNow/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="1000" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLdOooneqnpO6VvSVgTQWPhznb0HwF_AVTrdD94HgZUm9X3AzDloPZlAYt8lSInrrLEXIZ0sHMOmmQs5O75E0NELMFgZdfSky_0n8qeroRYjkXOkhXgj4B53TU7HKl_x25LIyg_zhNow/" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Guess who came up with carving? Yup, the laurel arguably goes to Elan for that invention. Earning praise year after year in test results and design awards,
Elan’s innovative products are a reflection of the brand’s heritage and
dedication to not just building skis, but building BETTER skis. The next
milestone after the invention of carving – <span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Elan </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">engineers Jurij Franko and Pavel </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Š</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">kofic
experimentally adjusted sidecut and developed a physical model </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">which was released with a</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> tight 15m radius</span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
back in 1988 – seems to be the introduction of the Voyager: the world's first
folding, all-mountain skis </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;">that
proudly say in capital letters: »Handcrafted in the Slovenian Alps«.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGsusjfCvR2LzUz1C70AomK49A745YcTyqmeXm1XGsomJ50S-ngz_vi7cROLHGeY3MFiS5-nj560DSwbqpAF45s2rPq0iEKnLFwwPCVrI8Xeva1_vt6N4utZ0LU5sPPoceFtRPikz_pk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="2048" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGsusjfCvR2LzUz1C70AomK49A745YcTyqmeXm1XGsomJ50S-ngz_vi7cROLHGeY3MFiS5-nj560DSwbqpAF45s2rPq0iEKnLFwwPCVrI8Xeva1_vt6N4utZ0LU5sPPoceFtRPikz_pk/" width="320" /></a></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;">The secret of the
Voyager is Elan's Connect tech, using a four-axis mechanism that bonds the ski
at the folding joint. Carbon-reinforced fusion plate plus the mentioned
mechanism serve as a load-bearing platform and support, working together to
provide what they call »torsional rigidity« for superior performance. The skis
come in three sizes: 160cm (packed to 87cm with 12.6 radius), 166cm (packed to
89cm with 13.7 radius) and 172cm (packed to 93cm with 14.9 radius).<br />
</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOe-1krLl8ulGn0A1HJ4Rj86D01jAsAENyaN7kxrgSNVjE5HKflppRBaWciRDQXmPTYeaDZfXHxArL1s_K6Mh36EKjf9zi0y-UaIWALSM-geZSKeoNCYXvHhiXanRZc6y0GO-KgIdpY1Q/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOe-1krLl8ulGn0A1HJ4Rj86D01jAsAENyaN7kxrgSNVjE5HKflppRBaWciRDQXmPTYeaDZfXHxArL1s_K6Mh36EKjf9zi0y-UaIWALSM-geZSKeoNCYXvHhiXanRZc6y0GO-KgIdpY1Q/w240-h320/Fold.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Voyager is super convenient to transport. It simply folds in half and
quickly packs into its own custom bag, skis facing opposite sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Voyager allows you to bypass the search
and hassle at the oversized luggage belt at the
airport and to skip tedious rental shop queues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is easy to take the skis to and from the cabin ski lifts, and at folded length under 1 meter, the
Voyager stores just about
anywhere, even in a 911 Carrera Cabriolet or that tiny Car Share city vehicle. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknl3t_wb3jll5RtUl4wGWBob3aXGKYepzFbxqFnVwHW0apNYN8dTg4_ocHRBHk9RjoAnYJeytfL316cXiLAyoW4bKjLaEmMTm4qWJp6-EvJwsZDwFbTgmRQ6ayxECAk7N2l8h5fstK8g/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknl3t_wb3jll5RtUl4wGWBob3aXGKYepzFbxqFnVwHW0apNYN8dTg4_ocHRBHk9RjoAnYJeytfL316cXiLAyoW4bKjLaEmMTm4qWJp6-EvJwsZDwFbTgmRQ6ayxECAk7N2l8h5fstK8g/w300-h400/Detail.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Voyager thus easily tackles anything an experienced skier can throw at it without
compromising on performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can
easily handle any ski conditions from a day out with the family to a day of
carving up groomers, floating through powder and attacking moguls. It even
looks stylish next to a group of snowboarders in onesies doing some sick
shredding.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQeN5CcSsFtPgWqdAtqRPZQ1Kazo-_HglJS7y85rSMZFq7zfFztoI7pvD8VRt2YTOpsOrfZmi9QFMAq-e5Zq77txZMMUPGvaHX5gabw6T9xJD2dg33joj2NLrZPhFm8oCvwD3glPvO_AY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1586" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQeN5CcSsFtPgWqdAtqRPZQ1Kazo-_HglJS7y85rSMZFq7zfFztoI7pvD8VRt2YTOpsOrfZmi9QFMAq-e5Zq77txZMMUPGvaHX5gabw6T9xJD2dg33joj2NLrZPhFm8oCvwD3glPvO_AY/w252-h400/Me.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <span lang="SL"></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My full day experience with the skis was very, very positive. Voyager <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">construction
seems to tick all the boxes of a solid ski and </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">this </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">goes some way </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">towards</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
justifying a relatively </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">steep </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">price
point.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It’s also </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">very cool </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">in the slightest
bit of slush</span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> – you know, those warm weather, sunny thaws</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The construction comes </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">at no </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">cost</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> to the on-piste performance, which is </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">absolutely on point. Voyager skis </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">genuinely </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">are </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">a strong
all-rounder and for that reason would be a superb choice for</span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> pretty much any on-piste skier but the most die-hard pro. A creative
approach for those who see the mountain as a playground, as someone once said.</span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9sQm42q-X18CPZcWFETc1aY_Ck8Uke3vyDPlYYzJ8PCTYjwj8car72jE9stdtQ4QKMTojRIIVK5OWz4x-nhyahyphenhyphenNg-4m_8g-XPiYOX0fPaM3tNXzKpggcGScjISwCJDLAnsFMCpHqPM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9sQm42q-X18CPZcWFETc1aY_Ck8Uke3vyDPlYYzJ8PCTYjwj8car72jE9stdtQ4QKMTojRIIVK5OWz4x-nhyahyphenhyphenNg-4m_8g-XPiYOX0fPaM3tNXzKpggcGScjISwCJDLAnsFMCpHqPM/w240-h320/Me+2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">https://www.elanskis.com<br />(Photos: Author, David Keinne, ELAN).</b><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;"></span></p>
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Here it is, the chosen final image:</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZTffmWDRFP_5MStoaQyzh8mz-do1QqvFBeyF5fuslrOv25mUY2E3Ya5FRZQR2skj9r89P3AlfDTsqqsHwjdONRwb1HoF2I_pw256B8AEfyffSFU5B_XXCe01_BpvdloiBiwOMz2Kzqg/s1307/Cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1307" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZTffmWDRFP_5MStoaQyzh8mz-do1QqvFBeyF5fuslrOv25mUY2E3Ya5FRZQR2skj9r89P3AlfDTsqqsHwjdONRwb1HoF2I_pw256B8AEfyffSFU5B_XXCe01_BpvdloiBiwOMz2Kzqg/w306-h400/Cover.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><p> </p><p>So let me explain the two reasons my last ever photoshoot for Playboy with model Lara Mlaker is so special to me:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3rHB63wolWZJl48zt3X5vrm0n48JuJzjRsn_mY_aW4VZfqK9IhHRi2dlT7n8Tmbb3v5GCKOCPwOCs1Q5VevN6husIncjUFtsP6vOEhxa5MaWdLJfaAtOjKRTgUx0rh1pWc46n5PyZv7I/s1441/003_Lara_Zakulisne_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1441" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3rHB63wolWZJl48zt3X5vrm0n48JuJzjRsn_mY_aW4VZfqK9IhHRi2dlT7n8Tmbb3v5GCKOCPwOCs1Q5VevN6husIncjUFtsP6vOEhxa5MaWdLJfaAtOjKRTgUx0rh1pWc46n5PyZv7I/s320/003_Lara_Zakulisne_.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><b>First, it is the car. </b><br />The Citroen DS pallas was the automobile that my dad used to own for nearly two decades. I grew up with that car and fell deeply in love with it. It had hydraulic air suspension, rotating (directional) headlights previously seen only on the 1948 Tucker Torpedo and was the first mass produced car with disc brakes. It was huge and comfy. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhux7u1C5IpcXWL64p9nwULb8hmI4LV05595Amu_gvsbg9kPdmQC1yOOE1F8M7N3Ji1exfi8UQEE4vID3eux5gu-8u1PFBRI_yb35-Bd9CqK3JqbwG4zvtc1DBEjNT6YKU9pilrWZt9lbE/s1000/009_Lara_Zakulisne_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhux7u1C5IpcXWL64p9nwULb8hmI4LV05595Amu_gvsbg9kPdmQC1yOOE1F8M7N3Ji1exfi8UQEE4vID3eux5gu-8u1PFBRI_yb35-Bd9CqK3JqbwG4zvtc1DBEjNT6YKU9pilrWZt9lbE/s320/009_Lara_Zakulisne_.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>It was probably one of the most beautiful cars the land of croissants and berets ever produced - designed by an Italian sculptor (Bertoni) and French aeronautical engineer (Lefebvre). My dad’s DS, just like our model featured here, had the pallas luxury upgrade and was way ahead of its time.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpd5qRGN7MF-uFTekvBHMshCHpFZ2bVBK06dioRToNXXhmTadhO6ZoA-mUjGjN1Y39dlBH3FiMlrPqSVSX4p0zB2U9XNDDL05K8RPPYl72QNgMveBOaWUmQgPKP06qj1nogsePkIXU4fU/s1000/002_Lara_Zakulisne_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpd5qRGN7MF-uFTekvBHMshCHpFZ2bVBK06dioRToNXXhmTadhO6ZoA-mUjGjN1Y39dlBH3FiMlrPqSVSX4p0zB2U9XNDDL05K8RPPYl72QNgMveBOaWUmQgPKP06qj1nogsePkIXU4fU/s320/002_Lara_Zakulisne_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p><b><br />Second, it is the cinematic colors.</b><br />The color theory, as you know, helps us understand the hues, saturations and brightness of the colors and puts them into a schematic structure. By using complementary colors - the ones on the opposite side of the color wheel - you achieve the strongest contrast in a totally natural way. After visiting Arles for the third time last summer I wanted to do a hommage to Van Gogh’s Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, made in 1888. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQliE6R4EAIGvRcZGh_NzCHifUpuFtlU9xO_awH3fzgtHHmGjfWdv8z1-WrxOo1pMo4f-vDHq-iPof_31-YThJ2D_pvj0LwNyN29d1WmagnWD8WU9RdIbTQ86JZR9R_3SqZcA2PncBcww/s1254/vvg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQliE6R4EAIGvRcZGh_NzCHifUpuFtlU9xO_awH3fzgtHHmGjfWdv8z1-WrxOo1pMo4f-vDHq-iPof_31-YThJ2D_pvj0LwNyN29d1WmagnWD8WU9RdIbTQ86JZR9R_3SqZcA2PncBcww/s320/vvg.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>The primary use of blue and yellow, with just sporadic touches of other colors, makes his masterpiece oh so appealing. It was not easy to eliminate the unwanted colors in camera on a sunny rooftop parking lot, but by doing it I got the cyan blues and skin tones interacting in a beautiful simultaneous contrast. The model is also unretouched.</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzt1OH-QSkmcrq-Pxr7ciz4qjtcCKGSai7sOWtMS0WekxK2nuxl0-suqcX-mldseVvzHvQM5NfpxZ8ro6wnE0uqQndhrzyx1j2O_kbwkVt8deNpSA2lI7l3g15FmBXyN-sF69I32pLKQ/s1503/PB+Spread.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1503" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzt1OH-QSkmcrq-Pxr7ciz4qjtcCKGSai7sOWtMS0WekxK2nuxl0-suqcX-mldseVvzHvQM5NfpxZ8ro6wnE0uqQndhrzyx1j2O_kbwkVt8deNpSA2lI7l3g15FmBXyN-sF69I32pLKQ/w640-h426/PB+Spread.jpg" width="640" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can catch lots of my unpublished images here: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.bravnicar.com/exclusive">http://www.bravnicar.com/exclusive</a> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(All BTS images: Vesna Košnik).<br /></div><p><br /><br /></p>Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-8690627103032627002020-04-22T17:53:00.000+02:002020-04-22T17:53:01.960+02:00KILFITT - The genius lens and camera maker you never heard of <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Remember Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic Rear Window, the mother of all suspense films? The super long lens James Stewart is using in the iconic movie scene on his Exakta VX is a <b>Kilfitt Fern-Kilar 400/5.6. </b><br />
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Heinz Kilfitt was born in Germany in 1898. He spent his early youth repairing watches and became famous designing the spring motor "<b>Robot</b>" cameras with a design that shocked the competition - even the folks at Leica.<br />
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<br />The <b>Kilfitt Company</b> started in Munich, Germany in 1941 but in 1947 he founded the company Kamerabau-Anstalt-Vaduz in Liechtenstein, where they developed <b>THE WORLD’S FIRST 1:1 MACRO LENS</b>, the <b>Kilfitt Makro-Kilar 3.5/40mm</b> in 1955. There was no need for the bellows anymore - you could go from infinity to true macro just by rotating the lens barrel, almost 360 degrees.<br />
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His firm Kilfitt München (which employed more than 100 people) was also known for the innovative series of telephoto, and macro zoom (!) lenses from the 1950s and 1960s. Kilfitt was in 1959 even contracted to manufacture the <b>groundbreaking 1960 Zoomar 36-82mm lens for Voigtländer - the world's FIRST PRODUCTION ZOOM for 35mm still cameras</b>. It was originally made in Voigtlander Bessamatic mount, produced in the Munich Kilfitt factory -- as were most Zoomars up until 1971. These lenses later got <b>INTERCHANGEABLE LENS MOUNTS</b> as a novel idea for the many cameras available. According to some sources Zoomar ended commercial production in favor of US military in 1986.<br />
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Not only did Heinz Kilfitt make and TEST every lens before it left the factory, he also designed cameras as mentioned earlier. <b>Robot</b> (1934, sold patent to Hans-Heinrich Berning), <b>Mecaflex</b> (in cooperation with METZ) and the <b>Kowa Six</b> are all his designs. He was known (but not known enough) around the world, even in Hollywood’s dream factories - there was even an Arriflex mount for his lenses and <b>Stanley Kubrick was a fan of his 90/2.8 Makro-Kilar.</b><br />
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When Kilfitt retired in late sixties, he sold his factory to Dr. Frank Gerhard Back with the new <b>Zoomar</b> headquarters in Glen Cove, Long Island (NY). He died in 1980.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />(Historic photos used in this article are solely for academic purposes - fair use).</span></div>
Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-25585908167542961552019-05-22T09:32:00.003+02:002019-06-24T07:05:00.036+02:00PLAYBOY SPECIAL EDITION - THE 10 YEARS OF PICTORIALS (Another full Playboy issue dedicated to my work)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Back in the golden days of Playboy, the queen of the Bunny pages was
the archetypal girl next door. This wholesome image never failed to find
love with the "standing there, smiling and not acting up or doing
anything stupid" look.<br />
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Thankfully, the image of women in
Playboy has changed dramatically. For the past decade, my main pictorial
work was focused on photogra<span class="text_exposed_show">phing "real"
women and girls, women who have been empowered, independent and
successful - sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, artists, entrepreneurs
and visionaries. Some were at least one, and some are all of it.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">On May 30th 2019, I was celebrating with each and every one of them through a Special Edition of <a href="http://www.playboy.si/" target="_blank">Playboy Slovenia</a> which features photographs from the latter half of my 18-year career with the magazine.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">I am extremely proud to have an entire issue dedicated to my
photography and honored to having been able to showcase all the
mesmerizing beauty once more - in the vanishing art form of print.</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">On the cover: Ula Furlan, actress, model, TV host and author. </span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show">See the "making of" BTS video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5z8bl2R9-k" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-2330213186325674762018-03-11T21:06:00.001+01:002018-03-11T22:41:03.733+01:00RED Pro zoom RPZ on an ARRI camera... The 18-85mm T2.9 PL on an ARRI AMIRA <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I searched all over the web and could not find a single image of a RED Pro zoom RPZ lens mounted on an ARRI camera, be it Alexa or Amira.<br />
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So I made one myself.<br />
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<b>Probably the world's first posted image of a RED Pro zoom 18-85mm T2.9 on an ARRI Amira.</b><br />
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The lens fits perfectly, but the thumb "ears" of the ARRI PL mount have to be turned backwards so they clear the back of the zoom. A quick and seamless fix involving 4 torx screws.<br />
<b><br />A request:</b><br />
<u><b>IF SOMEONE HAS THE "SUPER SECRETIVE" INFORMATION ABOUT THE MANUFACTURERS OF THE RED PRO ZOOM 18-85mm T2.9, PLEASE DROP ME A LINE</b></u>. <br />
I am sure some of you know who made this particular zoom (most likely not DigiOptical, Sigma or Tamron). It was said that "an optical firm in Japan manufactures the RED 18-85 zoom". <br />Cosina? Fujinon? Who else?<br />
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All gear courtesy of <a href="http://www.amirarent.com/">www.amirarent.com</a><br />
Thank you and enjoy the image.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white;">RED Pro zoom RPZ on ARRI Alexa Amira camera 18-85 mm T2.9 PL </span></span></div>
Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-76467796272238751932017-05-20T14:40:00.001+02:002017-05-20T14:59:57.612+02:00HOW I SHOT GRAZIA FASHION MAGAZINE COVER WITH A SMARTPHONE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>SLOVENIA'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL FASHION MAGAZINE COVER (AND EDITORIAL), SHOT
ENTIRELY WITH A SMARTPHONE</b>. </span><br />
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<span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;">After Sports Illustrated did it with with
The Rock, Billboard with Camila Cabello, </span><i>Condé Nast</i><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;"> Traveler, Bon Appetit and Time Magazine
with their awesome editorial shots, I felt the irresistible urge to try it out
myself. It was time to put my latest smartphone sensor to the ultimate quality
test - shooting an international<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>glossy
fashion magazine cover. <a href="http://www.grazia.it/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Grazia</b></a>, the
Italy-based Mondadori women's magazine, first published in 1938 and now
franchised in 23 countries worldwide (from Albania to Mexico, Pakistan and
Thailand) had contacted me with the cover idea as I shot for them before.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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I explained
to <a href="http://www.grazia.si/">Grazia Slovenia</a> editor-in-chief Špela Štamol that I wanted to shoot the
cover with the latest model of <a href="http://www.huawei.com/en/">Huawei</a> Smartphone. I made a list of all of the
specs that make the camera and three Leica lenses on the Huawei P10 plus better
than any of its earlier incarnations and realized that the strict quality
Grazia maintains on its covers (each international cover still has to be
individually approved by <i>Mondadori </i>Headquarters in Italy) just
wouldn’t have been possible with any Huawei smartphone before P10 Plus. Mind
you <span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;">that this is not the first magazine
cover shot with a Huawei smartphone - the credit goes to an Egyptian
photographer and his work for Insight Magazine using Huawei P8.</span><span lang="SL"> </span></div>
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The smartphone
is about as capable of capturing a good picture as most basic
compact cameras on the market. It is still no substitute for a
multi-thousand-dollar DSLRs, especially in print, but with the right lighting
and proper post-production, your phone’s camera can definitely hold its own. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The vast majority of people (98%) will never
notice the difference at all.</span></div>
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Let me explain my love for the <a href="https://en.leica-camera.com/">Leica</a> optics first. In 1914
optical engineer Oskar Barnack was working for Ernst Leitz when he designed the
very first Leica, the Leitz Camera, or so-called Ur-Leica. The small handheld
camera, one of the first to use 35mm film, finally went into production in 1925
following a long delay caused by World War One. It went on to revolutionise photography
in the hands of the first photojournalists who set out to record the world on
the brink of change. My dad gave me his Leica III when I was 11 years old. It
changed the way I saw things completely. Today the name Leica still stands as a
benchmark for the ultimate optical quality and the Huawei P10 Plus proudly sports
three Leica lenses integrated in its body.</div>
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<a href="http://ninapuslar.com/">Nina Pušlar</a>,
Huawei ambassador and the star of their latest international campaign, is one
of the most popular Slovenian singer-songwriters. She was a logical choice for the
cover. The smartphone allows for ease of use in the sense that it’s smaller and
creates a more casual feel when shooting, which proved especially cool when
working with a young star such as Nina Pušlar. Because of her age, the
generation she’s grown up with uses a smartphone as an everyday photography
tool.</div>
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The final
photos were of course touched up with photo editing software (that’s normal for
the course of all types of photo shoots, even those involving the most
expensive camera equipment), but not more than just simple curves for contrast,
clone tool for some imperfections and stray hair and extra grain to eliminate
the "digital look". The Portrait mode on Huawei P10 Plus makes all
the skin beautifications in camera and you can even choose a virtual
depth-of-field effect where the subject is brought into perfect focus while the
background is then blurred with a simulated f-stop that goes as low as f/0.95,
adding a beautiful <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bokeh</i> to your
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I usually
rely on high-level professional equipment, such as a medium format camera or a
Canon 5DSR, supplemented by a high-end lighting system. The big, 50 megapixel
files allow for some level of cropping, but the tiny, fragile smartphone sensor
unfortunately does not. I had to spend more time on composition and the final
photos were more thought out images than casual snapshots. Working with the
phone actually slows you down a notch, which in photography is always a good
thing.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Professional
photographers do not need to feel threatened by the way smartphones put a
powerful camera in everyone’s hands. It is just a welcome tool to elevate the
game and bring out the individual creativity. We always have to be pushing and
evolving, finding new ways and going along with new technology, whatever it may
be, to create something pioneering.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Check out the final editorial
images in Grazia Slovenia June 2017 edition, all shot on Huawei P10 Plus.</b><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Author’s
note: At the time of shooting the editorial images I was associated with Huawei
as their brand ambassador. The initiative of shooting the magazine cover and
editorial images with their smartphone was mine.</span></i></div>
Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-2632487392032788412016-06-09T18:41:00.000+02:002016-06-16T10:29:43.434+02:00MIAMI HEAT - Kako smo fotografirali Dašo Podržaj za naslovnico Playboya<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="text-align: justify;">Postaviti lepotico pred odbijač
starega kabrioleta res ni težko. A v njej zbuditi zapeljivko, jo pripraviti na
flirtanje s kamero in vse skupaj na sočen način ujeti v čudoviti, pridušeni
večerni svetlobi z osmimi lučmi je umetnost, ki jo mora obvladati sleherni
Playboyev fotograf. V moji reportaži si lahko preberete, zakaj je to včasih
mnogo težje, kot se zdi in kaj za vraga stoji za vso to silno filozofijo dobre fotografije.</i><br />
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Kot vsako leto je bil Miami tudi to pomlad kraj zločina za skupino
Playboyevih fotografov, ki so so nadeli ime <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shoot The Centerfold</b>, čeprav ne predavajo le o fotografiranju
dupleric. Skupaj imajo fantje že več kot 100 let delovnih izkušenj in letos je
Jarmo (idejni vodja projekta) poleg običajne ekipe k sodelovanju povabil tudi
Josha Ryana, zaslužnega za kar precej modno obarvanih piktorialov v ameriškem
Playboyu zadnjih let, vse do prenehanja njegove pogodbe ob koncu golote marca
letos. Dodali so celo tretji dan predavanj, namenjen poslovni strategiji
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Seveda v Miamiju nikakor ni šlo brez Slovencev - delovni ekipi
petnajstih deklet sta se tokrat pridružili lepotički Ines Juranovič in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Daša Podržaj</b>, slednja naravnost iz
rubrike Sanjsko Dekle v slovenskem in hrvaškem Playboyu. Dašin fatalni izgled,
markantna višina in obline na pravem mestu so že doma polnile modne strani in
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Fotografi so čudna sorta ljudi - na tisoče evrov porabijo za aparate,
luči, objektive in druge prepotrebne dodatke, potem pa dobijo občutek, da so si
s tovrstno investicijo zagotovili vstopnico za svojo bogato prihodnost. Vendar
temu še zdaleč ni tako. Nujna je predvsem investicija v osebni fotografski
razvoj. Tukaj fotografi prepogosto zaprejo svoj mošnjiček in se prepustijo
toku. Zdi se jim, da bo lepo dekle pred objektivom naredilo dovolj za dobro
fotografijo. A obstaja ogromna razlika med čudovito fotografijo in fotografijo
čudovitega dekleta na njej. Šele ko znaš kombinacijo svojega subjekta in
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A obstaja tudi druga plat zgodbe - <span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;">zgolj oprema nas res ne bo pripeljala do vrhunskih rezultatov, vendar tudi
stara in prevečkrat ponovljena mantra, da oprema ni pomembna, ne drži vedno. Dobra
oprema je za profesionalnega fotografa najpomembnejše orodje, ki ga pripelje do
želenih rezultatov. Profesionalna oprema pri sami izvedbi fotografiranja
pripomore največ in eliminira morebitne nepotrebne komplikacije med samim
fotografskim procesom. Prav zaradi dejstva, da je potrebno svoji opremi
neomajno zaupati ne glede na situacijo, je Shoot The Centerfold izbral
fotoaparate <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phase One</b>, studijsko
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kot človek neoster. Fotke bodo dobre le, če bo tudi portretiranec pred
objektivom dal vse od sebe. Enostavno ne moreš narediti dobrih posnetkov, če
tisti na drugi strani objektiva ne sodeluje. Zato je delavnico tudi letos
oplemenitil <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gary T. Cole</b>, ki je
dolga leta služil kot urednik fotografije ameriškega Playboya. Kot vsak
etablirani urednik tudi Gary zagovarja teorijo, da mora biti odnos med
fotografom in urednikom fotografije konstanten, brez neprijetnih presenečenj in
brez turbulenc. Fotograf mora znati plavati med morskimi psi in se uspešno
prebiti do kopnega. Urednik namreč ne more objaviti njegovih izgovorov namesto
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Glamur
fotografija, katere del je tudi naš Playboy in o kateri interdisciplinarno uči
Shoot The Centerfold, je prav tako subjektivna reč kot fotografija mode - jasno
začrtana definicija o tem, kaj je prav in kaj ni pri obeh ne obstaja. Slika
mora preprosto delovati, ko jo pogledaš, da lahko rečeš "vau".
Povprečni konzumant take slike ne bo porabil več kot par sekund ob gledanju,
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ogromno zaslug za dobro fotografijo ima kakopak svetloba. Učenje obvladovanja
svetlobe je proces, ki traja vse življenje. Zelo malo ljudi lahko z gotovostjo
trdi, da jo res zna ukrotiti in obvladovati. Ključ dobre osvetlitve ni v
dodajanju luči tja, kjer jo je premalo, pač pa ustvarjanje vzdušja, ki kar
najbolj pripomore k zgodbi fotografije. Na delavnici so se slušatelji naučili,
da je dobra osvetlitev podobna dobri plastični operaciji - diskretna,
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stara šola Playboyevih fotografov je s svojim
Rembrandtovskim pristopom k osvetlitvi pustila neizbrisljiv pečat za generacije
fotografov, ki so jo pogosto - a dostikrat neuspešno - poskusili reproducirati.
V Miamiju so se udeleženci delavnice lahko na lastne oči preizkusili tudi v tem
izzivu, pod mojim mentorstvom mnogi tudi nadvse uspešno.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dandanes so
fotografi v dirki za dobro fotografijo postavljeni pred najtežji izziv v
stoletju in pol njenega obstoja - industrija podob od njih zahteva, da imajo
neskončen spekter interdisciplinarnega znanja ter da znajo odlično kombinirati
tehnične spretnosti z ustvarjalnostjo. Vrednost estetsko zadovoljive podobe je
večja, kot je kadarkoli bila prav zaradi virtualne poplave povprečnih slik, ki
potrošnika oblegajo na vsakem koraku in polnijo njegovo življenje tako na
družbenih omrežjih, kot tudi v oglaševalskem prostoru in časopisih. Toda ne
pozabite - za dobre fotografije (dobre, ne zgolj manj povprečne!) bo vedno
prostor, ne glede na prezasičenost trga. Zato ne pozabite v vaše podobe vedno
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As part of the festivities for Playboy Slovenia's 15 years
of existence the magazine decided to publish a unique, one-of-a-kind Special
Edition. </div>
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Every month since 2004 Playboy brought the readers
Slovenia's most beautiful celebrities, models, actresses, athletes, singers and
girls next door on Playboy's "page three", a section titled
"Sanjsko dekle" (Dream girl) which gained a cult following over the
past 12 years of being featured in the magazine and having almost exclusively
been photographed by yours truly. As a big tribute to many of the beautiful
ladies who were brave enough to come in front of my camera and share the magic,
the 130-page Special Edition featuring hundreds of my photographs hit the
newsstands as an independent issue this spring. </div>
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I am extremely proud of being featured in this Playboy
Special Issue, an entire magazine dedicated to my work on the Dream Girl
section over the past dozen years. Not many photographers get a chance of
having their very own Playboy Special Edition published. I can recall just a
handful of veterans, legendary glamour photographers like Richard Fegley and
Pompeo Posar. Of course it is also impossible to properly do justice to all the
girls that have been depicted on Playboy Slovenia's "page three". It
is just a glimpse at their grace that has been captured over all these years. </div>
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Upon deciding on the cover model for this Special Edition of
Playboy the selection was narrowed down to just a handful of girls. The editors
finally went with <a href="http://bravnicar.blogspot.si/2016/01/the-natasa-naneva-cover-shoot-in-detail.html">Nataša Naneva who graced the February 2016 issue of Playboy</a>
with her energetic cover shot during the STC Seminar in Santorini. Nataša is an
actress, hair and hand model, certified zumba instructor and an ambassador for
several national advertising brands, such as Žito and Subrina.</div>
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<span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;">Setting up a
cover shoot is never an easy job. Cover images must speak, they must convey
emotions and leave the viewer with the desire to buy the magazine. If the image
is not powerful enough, it is just a pretty picture. No editor will entrust you
the cover commission and hope for just a pretty photograph. Your images should
celebrate the female beauty, but they should also add a touch of personal
style, a signature look, something that no one else could have taken. This will
make you stand out from the crowd.</span></div>
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The challenge for this cover (my sixtieth cover in a row for
Playboy) was creating a moody atmosphere using just constant lighting - LED,
neon and tungsten sources. I decided to use complementary colors on the model
and the background and thus create an eye-pleasing visual harmony. Such schemes
should always be used with caution so they do not become jarring. They should
create maximum contrast and maximum stability at the same time.</div>
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The equipment used was a <span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;">custom built 3ft neon sticklight with 54W
bulb, a </span><span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">dimmable 312 LED Panel with adjustable color temperature
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at 2/3 proportional power and Lupolux DayLED 650 Fresnel daylight at 55% power (for
background). The final cover image was shot on Canon EOS 5DsR, 24-70/2.8L lens
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Such setup floods the model
with prominent greenish light cast, but does so carefully and with controlled
amount of precision. The image color hue is further enhanced by putting
together an 80B filter (used to convert tungsten to daylight) and a sepia
filter in front of the lens. The additional cast this combination produces<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>delivers the final punch to the
picture’s color balance, which I tweaked in Lightroom to my liking (Tint +6
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Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-63571874530829926562016-04-23T13:10:00.001+02:002016-04-24T14:38:52.347+02:00The special 15 Years of Playboy collaboration (Retrospective Issue) Cover - The Wife Diaries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Of all the burning questions I get asked in my career as a Playboy photographer, among all the "whats", "whos" and "whys", the most commonly asked question must be this: “How does your wife handle all that nude model shooting business of yours?”<br />
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To answer once and for all, here she is on the cover of Playboy Magazine. An unyielding woman. A mother. A wife.<br />
100% natural. 100% proud.<br />
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Špela Kink Bravničar on the cover of Playboy Magazine is sporting the executive contour hairdo by Loui Ferry and wearing La Perla Swarovski Emerald Cobra bra styled by Barbara Žgalin/CDB. Make-up by Romina Regvat. Shot at ZoomZoom Photo Studio, Ljubljana, Slovenija.<br />
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Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-57328378814406608772016-01-11T20:13:00.001+01:002016-01-12T08:19:39.609+01:00NATAŠA NANEVA SEXY COVER SHOOT IN DETAIL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The February 2016 issue of <a href="http://www.playboy.si/" target="_blank">Playboy Slovenia</a> hit the
newsstands this week. It is a content packed issue featuring great models and
great articles. My Nataša Naneva pictorial, shot in Republic of Macedonia
and Greece, is featured in this very issue and will ring a bell with all
the STC attendees who had the opportunity of attending the <a href="https://shootthecenterfold.com/we-would-like-to-thank-you-for-the-perfect-santorini-seminar/" target="_blank">Santorini workshop</a>
in October 2015. Several pages from this pictorial were shot during the two
weeks of the seminar when I was in beautiful Oia, the very place that hosted the
<a href="https://shootthecenterfold.com/" target="_blank">Shoot The Centerfold </a>seminar workshop, giving lectures with Jarmo Pohjaniemi on
the art of becoming a successful photographer and mastering different forms of
lighting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The attendees had the opportunity of witnessing
the creation of a magazine cover from the very basic idea to the final edit
with the help of Capture Integration's own Dave Gallagher, who brought three
Phase One cameras to the seminar. I was eager to test one of them for my cover
shot. Despite being a <a href="http://bravnicar.blogspot.si/2013/01/being-canon-ambassador.html" target="_blank">Canon Ambassador in Slovenia</a>, I also own several other
camera brands (Hasselblad and <a href="http://www.amirarent.com/" target="_blank">ARRI</a> to name a few) and am always up for a challenge with new gear that comes my way. Using two Canon
bodies (the 50 megapixel 5DsR and my faithful compact G1X) for the rest of the
pictorial, the mighty Phase One was a logical choice for seamlessly combining
the strong mid-day Santorini sun with powerful <a href="http://hensel.eu/" target="_blank">Hensel</a> strobes on this photo
session.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I started setting set up the scene around noon,
facing West towards the sea. We were tethering to a 17" MacBook Pro with
the latest version of Capture One and to an iPad for instant focus
confirmation. Dave Gallagher took the DIT helm for the shoot. The camera I
fired up was a Phase One IQ3 60 (with 60 megapixel CCD) and I mounted the
Schneider LS 240mm/4.5 lens for the lovely bokeh and compressed perspective.
Such set-up needed a sturdy tripod, so I put the camera on a Gitzo Series 3
with the Really Right Stuff ball head and L-bracket. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The strobes were all from Hensel: One Expert D
1000 with a 3x4' Hensel softbox at 7.8/10 power, one Expert D 1000 with 1x3'
Hensel strip for fill below at 3.8/10 power, one Expert D 1000 with a 10-degree
grid on a standard reflector and 1/8 CTO at 4/10 power for the hair and
silhouette and finally a Ringflash around the camera lens, connected to the
versatile Porty pack for a tender fill. I put a California Sunbounce PRO
white/silver three-quarters to the left side and a black Sunbounce PRO
three-quarters above to shadow the harsh mid-day sunlight. The light meter
showed 1/500s at f/10 and ISO 100 and this was the setting for all the shots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I shot the cover in less than an hour and in
the evening, when the hot Greek air cooled down a bit, everybody at the seminar
was participating in a live Capture One edit of the shoot hosted by Dave
Gallagher. Jarmo and I were talking about what makes a photograph good or bad,
what makes or breaks the pose and what kinds of pictures please the editors or
make them angry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">One of the shortlisted photographs from the session was published on
this month's cover of Playboy Slovenia. It was a great pleasure having all the
attendees involved in its process, hearing their opinions and together finding
the best possible images for the cover shortlist. I can safely say now that we
chose wisely. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br />Check out more hot images on <a href="http://www.playboy.si/">www.playboy.si</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br />BONUS: check the BTS video of the pictorial shoot below:</span><br />
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Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-55154039098124961622016-01-03T13:54:00.003+01:002016-01-10T19:06:02.365+01:00THE DARING CREATIVE COVERS OF THE OLD LUI MAGAZINE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: SL;">After 63 years, Playboy USA is about to justify the "read it for the articles" tagline by going non-nude. According to them, the charms of exposing nude celebrities and girls next door has been lost with all the selfies girls publish on Instagram and the broad availability of free internet porn.</span><br />
<span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: SL;"><br />For Playboy USA, the next step in pitching to the young urban men between 18 and 30 will be mirroring the very magazine that used to be its spin-off in the sixties and seventies - the french Lui, currently edited by the creative mind of writer Frédéric Beigbeder and back on the newsstands since 2013 with 350,000 copies and 23 editions of top models, amazing pictorials and really great literary articles.</span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: SL;"><br />
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Lui has no ambitions (and never had) of going non-nude and has been
continuously publishing A-list celebrities and top models completely bare with
great success. For those of you who might not know - the current edition is
Lui's fourth reincarnation after 40+ years of turbulent history that also
spawned German, Italian, Spanish and American international editions. </span></div>
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<span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: SL;">The first (and most famous) Lui edition was published with ups and downs by
Filipacchi Group from 1963 to 1994, the second series (as "Le nouveau
Lui") by Michael Birnbaum from 1995 to 1997, the third (as the
pornographic magazine) from 2001 to 2010 and finally, in its present form </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">after the purchase of the title by Jean-Yves Le Fur,
Lui was relaunched in September 2013 as a high-end magazine for the modern man.</span><span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: SL;"></span></div>
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<span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: SL;">The creative extravaganza that was the original Lui (and its US counterpart
Oui, published in America by none other than Playboy Enterprises), manifested
itself in a collection of some of the most amazing and daring covers that ever
adorned the French press. Here is a personal collection of my fifty all-time favorites.
Enjoy.</span></div>
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<span lang="SL" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: SL;"><a href="http://www.luimagazine.fr/">http://www.luimagazine.fr/</a><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(All images (C) LUI)</span></span></div>
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the festive month of December and the flood of new calendars for the upcoming
year is upon us. They range from the most artistic and sublime to the most
explicit, giving their admirers a vast variety of options from which to choose.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><br />
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Graphicum, who has been producing a unique calendar every year for more than a
decade, called me again this year (they already did it in 2011, when the US
blogger community proclaimed our "Made in Slovenia" B&W calendar
with 12 top models "the Slovenian answer to Pirelli") and challenged
me to create another fine product for their company. Ultimately, I only gave
them one condition - that my hands be completely free to pour my creative
vision onto large sheets of high quality printing paper.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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you know, I am no stranger to fine art, having exhibited my photos in Milan,
New York, The Holy Land and, most lately, at Art Basel in Miami. I won the
Slovenia Press Photo award for my depiction of androgynous models (the jury was
mostly Pulitzer Prize winners) and I have been shooting fashion editorials for
glossies such as Cosmopolitan, Elle and Grazia for more than a decade. My work
was also featured in almost every international Playboy edition around the
globe and in the span of the 15 years of my Bunny pages career, I have
photographed more than fifty covers for the magazine.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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calendar photoshoot started with with a clear mission - to merge the beauty of
12 fashion models with my own erotic vision, adding a pinch of what my
colleagues call "<i>the Bravničar look</i>". Ten of the girls I
photographed come from my home country of Slovenia, one is from Ukraine and one
from Estonia. The avid Playboy readers might remember Karin Škufca, Katarina
Benček, Ula Šemole and Eva Kofol, who have all been previously featured in my
Playboy pictorials and everyone else will surely recognize the European and
World Ten-dance Champion and model Nadiya Bychkova. There is also a newcomer
featured here with no previous experience in modelling as I gave a unique
opportunity to Lea Rogelj, a hot girl next door from a small town of Voklo, to
be featured in the pages of the 2016 calendar.</span></div>
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layout of the calendar is a creative domain of designer Zvone Kukec, who has
crafted every single of the 14 calendars for Collegium Graphicum printers.
"There is only one photographer in Slovenia who can produce such work we
see here," Zvone told the Jamšek brothers who own the Collegium Graphicum
company. "But don't take my word for it - ask the girls!" </span></div>
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took Zvone Kukec's advice and talked to two models from the pages of the
"NSFW" (Not Safe For Work) 2016 calendar, as I aptly named my
12-month <i>piece-de-resistance</i> that is unfortunately not for sale and will
be printed in a few hundred copies only.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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champion dancer Nadiya Bychkova (month of November) told the media: "Aleš
is the only photographer I trust completely. The outcome is marvellous".
Ula Šemole (month of March), who was also featured on the pages of Playboy not long
ago, added: "Aleš and I collaborate a lot. There is nobody else that I'd
pose naked for but him".</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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result and the calendar came out on December 4th with a big party. Here are
some of the images from the opening night (courtesy of 24ur.com/Miro Majcen, Andraž Blaznik, Rok Mele and the girls).</span></div>
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omnipresent question on all my workshops and seminars. <br />Everybody wants to
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possible to have your photos published during the process of learning
photography! Many of you might be too afraid to give it a try, but you just may
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only to create an event where they would shoot some of the most beautiful
models and have one hell of a good time doing it, but also ending up with
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where your journey really begins. Most attendees from my workshops bring back
photographs that could be sent to the editors without embarrassment and are
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a mentor at last year’s STC Workshop with Neža Marolt were published on the
cover and inside Playboy magazine, fashion model Barbara Sorčič, who posed for
me as guest photographer at Samo Vidic Workshop in 2014 got a two-page spread
in Playboy with an image I shot there and this March at STC Miami, through
popular demand, I set up a “classic” Playboy set, only to land a full page
photo of model Jade Amber Williams in the magazine we all grew to love. </span><br />
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Pelješac, Croatia manifested as another Playboy cover, this time with the
wonderful Manca Mlakar, and numerous other educational travels around the globe
all resulted in worldwide published pictorials, catalogues and campaign images. </span><br />
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postaviti čudovito manekenko in Playboyevo sanjsko dekle? Sedaj je prava priložnost!</div>
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<i>Le
kdo si ne želi pokukati v svet Playboyevega fotografa in spoznati skrivnosti
njegovega poklica? Aleš Bravničar, ki že 15 let soustvarja vsebino najbolj
zaželene revije za moške, pa tudi<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>številne editoriale za modne časopise in fotografske zgodbe za
oglaševalske agencije, bo na delavnici v družbi profesionalnega modela razkril
nekaj svojih pristopov za izvrstne fotografije, ki navdušujejo urednike po vsem
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Kotizacija
vključuje predavanja in praktični del fotografiranj na lokaciji, delo z
manekenko, uporabo studijskih bliskovnih luči <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Profoto B1</b>, POLNI PENZION (3 zajtrke, 3 kosila in 3 večerje s
pijačo) ter nastanitev (3 nočitve) v sodobnih in udobnih apartmajih Luna
(4****) v ribiški vasici Lovište na skrajnem zahodu dalmatinskega polotoka
Pelješca. V ceno so vključeni tudi vsi transferji na lokacije in nazaj. Prihod
do Pelješca je v lastni režiji (avto, avtobus iz Zagreba, letalo do Dubrovnika
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Na
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željo po nadgradnji svojega znanja, bo poudarek na Aleševi najbolj priljubljeni
tehniki - glamur fotografiji na lokaciji. Spoznali boste nekatere tehnike
studijske fotografije, ki so primerne za lokacijo, izpilili znanje o uporabi
odbojnikov in se preizkusili v postopkih izdelave piktoriala, kot ga Aleš objavlja v Playboyih po vsem svetu.</div>
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Za
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Alešev
model bo manekenka Nana, sveži obraz slovenske modne scene, ki je
trenutno eden najbolj iskanih modelov mlade generacije pri nas. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Število udeležencev je strogo omejeno na 8</b>,
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At the end of 2013, the Apo Distagon T* 1.4/55, the first member of
the new high-end SLR family of Zeiss lenses came on the market. The most
important goal in developing this lens was to achieve a “no-compromises image
quality”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine something like a Zeiss
Master Prime that you can mount on your DSLR and you will get the idea.<br />
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As Zeiss tells us, the <a href="http://lenses.zeiss.com/camera-lenses/en_de/camera_lenses/otus/otus1455.html">Otus
1.4/55</a> contains all the expertise and experience of more than 120 years in
the field of optics and mechanics. Only the best materials and the
highest-quality glass were good enough for a lens whose development was driven
by one thought at every phase: offering the best-possible results when used by
sophisticated photographers. And it is made in Japan!</div>
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The scops owl (Latin: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Otus scops</i>),
the same one you know from Candy Crush Saga, is the name giver for this
new family of lenses and thanks to its superb sharpness, ultimate image
contrast and almost complete absence of chromatic aberrations the perfect image
quality can be achieved even when shooting wide open. This lens truly sets a
new standard, whether it is used in advertising, fashion or studio photography
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I was fortunate enough to get the Otus for a test drive directly from
Zeiss in time for my trip to Cuba. I was pondering my lens choice for a Playboy
pictorial shoot and finally decided to take just the Otus 1.4/55 and my equally
stunning EF 70-200/2.8L II from Canon. The latter would come in handy for that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports Illustrated</i> style Caribbean cover
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The Otus proved to be an absolute jewel. No difficulties whatsoever
with manual focusing (kudos also to Canon's ultra handy focus confirmation
signal), flawless performance wide open, amazing build quality and solid grip
thanks to the wide rubber focusing ring. I liked the lens so much (the standard
focal length is my favorite) I ended up shooting the whole Playboy pictorial
(12 final photographs) with just the Otus. Portrait shots, wide shots,
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The steep price for an all-time manual focus lens surely is a bit
painful. But it only hurts once. When you see the sharpness and the beautiful
rendering of details on your photographs that pop out in what can only be
described as the Zeiss look, the pain will be forgotten. As I write this the
Otus must be the single best piece of glass with an EF mount and electronic
contacts I can mount on my Canon.</div>
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The most asked question about the Otus line in the photographic
community was, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">why on earth just manual
focus?</i> Zeiss would never have achieved such precision had they incorporated
the AF mechanism. They say it could only be done with a manual focus lens. At
almost $4.000/€3.500 and weighing slightly over one kilogram, this lens
certainly is not for everyone. As somebody somewhere put it, 99% of
photographers will not understand the philosophy behind the Otus. But Zeiss
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SEE BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO WITH NADIYA BYCHKOVA <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drFM3jfZGi8&list=UUaRvkNV31sKpQambNEX5Mtw" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Otus lens image courtesy of Carl Zeiss AG. All rights reserved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is a tavern on a beautiful Greek island of <b>Santorini</b>
that uses simple snapshot photography as a very interesting marketing tool. It is called
“<b>Santorini Mou</b>” (<i>My Santorini</i>) and is extremely popular with locals and
tourists alike due to owner <b>Mihalis Hionas</b>’ efforts to make one’s dining
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">When you enter this place you feel as if you walked into a
Greek home, to somebody’s back yard, and the welcome is on par with the
atmosphere. The big sign in front of the cantina says “<b>Thanks for your
smile</b>” and it is not until you walk through the airy inner rooms of the restaurant
that you understand the greeting slogan outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is the infinite kaleidoscope of smiling photos of satisfied customers on
display all over the eatery that tell you this is a very happy place.
Everybody’s smiles are preserved in the most classical way possible – with
<b>thousands and thousands of snapshots</b> hanging from the walls and from the
ceiling. Most of the pictures have stamped dates and show couples or groups
just after lunch or dinner, snapped by the eager staff who take some photos
at your table when you are happy AND full after a tasty meal. </span></div>
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friendly embrace with the white bearded owner himself (some sitting on his lap)
after he pulls out a bouzouki and plays live music with a small band in the
evening. The picture Mihalis is probably most proud of is the one of him and
<b>Jennifer Aniston</b> hugging. He even put that snapshot on his business cards.</span></div>
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after they bring out a flag of your country (they have lots!) and fix it to
your table. You also get a huge album of current month's worth of photographs to browse - and when I say
huge I mean HUGE! The one saying “Month of July“ in Greek was <b>more than 4 inches thick</b>
and it wasn't even end of the month yet. The albums are updated daily with fresh
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The food in Santorini Mou is traditional, fresh, tasty,
cooked with love and (unusual for Santorini) priced very, very fairly.
Everybody loves eating here and this must be the reason the place is always packed. But the
big lure of coming back must surely be the photographs. People want to see their snapshots from the previous visit that are now
hanging from the ceiling in neat wooden frames and to write a comment or two
next to the duplicates glued into that big fat monthly album.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The old school snapshot approach of Mihalis and his family
shows that the power of photography still brings people from all over the world
together… and to the colorful tables of his joyful tavern.</span></div>
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being able to manage reflections, one of nature's splendorous gifts, is the
path towards capitalizing on them. The brain uses tonal variation to perceive
depth so with proper reflected lighting we can add dimension to the subject on
our photographs and avoid it being flat. When we are satisfied with the ratio
of highlights and shadows, we are likely to be pleased with the overall
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I see far too many
location photos made with reflectors that suffer from two major faults: light
that is too hard (mostly bounced from below) and/or subjects that are
illuminated unevenly due to the wrong size or false position of the reflector.
The zen for successful use of reflectors is determined by the following five
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">• <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Angle</b>. A reflector illuminates the
subject most when the incident light angle is the same as the reflected angle.
Finding the right angle always represents the biggest challenge!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">• <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Surface</b>. Different reflector surfaces
reflect light differently. White, silver, gold, zebra and black all have their
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">• <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Size</b>. Bigger reflectors bounce light
that feels softer with less fall-off. They also offer a broader tolerance when
the subject or the reflector moves slightly. One of greatest errors most
photographers do is using a reflector that is too small.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">• <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Distance</b>. The closer the reflector is
to the subject, the brighter the fill light becomes. It also softens up the
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">• <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Position</b>. A lot of photographers use
reflectors from below (I do that as well), but my favorite recipe for obtaining
great light from a reflector is bouncing the light from above at approximately
6 feet, simulating a softbox tilted 30 to 45 degrees towards the subject.</span></div>
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up your shot do not forget that the subject has a major influence on
lighting as well. This means that on location the subject position along with
the movement of the sun/clouds and time of day are all the factors to consider.
The main recipe for great lighting though is being able to anticipate what the
light is doing and what it is going to do <u>in relation to the subject</u> you
are photographing. The latter is crucial for nailing that perfect shot you are
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<span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;">I have known Inja Zalta since she became
Miss Teen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Smrklja</i> at the tender age
of 14. I photographed her first editorial back then and we have been shooting
together ever since. Five years later, all grown up and incredibly sexy, Inja
Zalta is a firm part of Slovenian model mainstream with several TV ads,
advertising campaigns and big jobs already behind her. This Playboy shoot was
something I wanted to do with her ever since she turned 18, but we just never
found the time to do it.</span></div>
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<span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;">The French magazine Lui and its legendary
covers were my inspiration for the shoot. Back then Lui had it all - the
skanky, the precious soft porn Dov Charney's American Apparel is so famous for
today (albeit with a touch of hipster spice) and the subtle, underlying fetish
implications, all done in a sagacious way during a revolutionary sexual
renaissance period between the sixties and eighties. At that time you could
either choose Playboy for its polished photographic perfection, or grab
Penthouse and Hustler for the vivaciously squalid sex scenes. Lui filled the
missing gap by offering something only the naughty French could pull off at the
time - a </span>sense of humor laced with a mischievous style.</div>
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<span lang="SL" style="mso-ansi-language: SL;"><a href="http://www.luimagazine.fr/" target="_blank">Lui</a> is back on newsstands since September
2013 under the creative lead of </span>Frédéric Beigbeder, author of "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">99 francs</i>" (retitled "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">14,99 euros</i>" later). As the new
captain at Lui's helm he believes that the magazine's original, yet slightly
revamped formula is what’s missing on newsstands today. His signature house
blend of major model names (like Edita Vilkevičiūtė, Enikő Mihalik and Małgosia
Bela) baring it all and big photographer talents like Terry Richardson lensing
them is again bringing joy to households this side of Atlantic.<br />
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Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-38476196512870642612013-12-17T10:58:00.000+01:002013-12-17T10:58:41.222+01:00ENDLESS SUMMER - The Creative Approach to Shooting a Playboy Pictorial <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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photography - there is no clear definition of what is right and what is not,
but he picture must work when you look at it. It is as simple as that. The
average "consumers" of these pictures will not spend more than a
couple of seconds looking at them before moving forward, so the picture has to
grab attention instantly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande";">The visual approach I chose for this photoshoot with
Slovenian dancer and model Ula Šemole in Miami is a modern twist on mixing
strobes with sunlight. It is a dynamic style, nowadays endorsed and embraced by
many male-oriented publications all over the globe. Editors always want
something fresh and new and there is nothing better than pleasing them – it is
a virtual guarantee you will get commissioned over and over again.</span></div>
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matching the power of a single strobe with the strong light of the scorching
Caribbean sun. The power pack had to be strong enough to match the sunlight and
overpower it, so I chose the 2400 Ws and a deep Tele Zoom reflector to make the
light beam even super harsh and intense. The shutter speed was mostly set at 1/200
at f/7.1 and ISO 200, so the pack was adjusted to be a little hot – maybe half
to one stop over our measured ambiance setting. That got rid of most of the
shadows on the model and made her stand out.</span></div>
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because I wanted my entire pictorial to be going in a very positive, joyous
direction. A classic glamour pose or a typical fashion one would not work so
well with this lighting scenario. The use of vivid, strong colors in styling
and the right choice of location all contributed to the feeling being
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big Tele Zoom reflector was always stationed anywhere between one to three feet
from the camera, just enough to give the model a slight shadow separation and
make her look three-dimensional. If no shadows were desired I would have used a
ringflash, but after several tests it turned out to be too flat for the feel I
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used had an extremely fast recycling time, so the strobe could keep up with the
pace of the model changing poses. It is imperative not to lose good poses
because of equipment limitations and this is one of the reasons why professional
photographers choose sturdy, reliable professional equipment with no compromise.
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several unpredictable variables during the shoot, such as the water from the
hose in one of the pictures which was not the easiest for the model to master -
she had to stay beautiful and work it at the same time. Occasional clouds
covered the sun and we had to wait for them to clear to get the sunlight back,
but when looking back at the final images I can only say it was well worth the
wait despite the fact that because of the unpredictable summer weather our
Florida shoot got extended over three days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">The Ula Šemole
pictorial was first published in January 2014 issue of Playboy Slovenia and
will be featured in several international Playboy editions in the near future.
You can check some of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqEstlg58w" target="_blank">"behind the scenes" footage here</a> and an older
shoot of mine with Ula Šemole posing as a <a href="http://www.playboy.si/dekleta/sanjsko-dekle/ula-semole-iz-skupine-shedivaz/" target="_blank">page three Playboy model here</a>.</span></div>
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Ales Bravnicarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582160893998490611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47118030927702932.post-33942409518235775882013-11-27T19:27:00.004+01:002013-11-27T19:59:35.104+01:00FROM BOLLYWOOD TO HOLLYWOOD - The story of a Playboy photograph<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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no stranger to fame. She splits her time between partying in the clubs of
Milan, Munich and Miami with the likes of Felipe Massa, Erick Morillo or Mel
Gibson, and shooting international campaigns from Barcelona to Boston for
clients like Lexus, Guess and Gilette – the latter with none other than Oblivion
superstar Olga Kurylenko.</span></span><br />
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locations, away from the public eye, assisted only by a handful of locals. </span><span lang="SL">There I was able to focus
on shooting without the curious crownds India is so famous for and Natalija was
able to concentrate on posing. Her years of experience in the fashion industry
helped enormously. </span></span><br />
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published in eight international editions of Playboy (Slovenia, Poland,
Croatia, Italy, Mexico, Czech Republic, Serbia and Greece) with more to follow
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caught the eye of Boštjan Vidmar, a pioneer embroidery master and owner of
<a href="http://www.ercigoj.com/en/" target="_blank">Ercigoj Embroidery</a>, a family-run private company that recently celebrated 90
years of existence. He approached me to explain his revolutionary and unique
invention - a method of making embroidery from photographs via a sophisticated
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weeks of work, millions of stitches and miles of yarn, but the end product is
so fantastic that it adds a virtual third dimension to any photograph reproduced
this way. Many photographers entrusted their work to Boštjan and he keeps
turning their pictures into timeless work of art. The latest big name to
collaborate with Ercigoj Embroidery is no other than National Geographic's
master photographer <a href="http://estitch.com/lang/en/view/mccurry-gallery/" target="_blank">Steve McCurry</a>.</span></span></div>
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opening picture of my India pictorial into two very special embroideries. One was
presented to Natalija (she loved it so much she hung on in her bedroom wall)
and the other went to Playboy Slovenia where the editor already had big plans for it.
The embroidery was soon bound for LA, heading straight to the Playboy Mansion on 10236
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as a proof that all of us did a great job. I am thrilled to have my photograph hanging
at the Playboy Mansion and look forward to see it in person on those <a href="http://bravnicar.blogspot.com/2010/02/party-at-playboy-mansion-even-better.html" target="_blank">legendary walls again soon.</a></span></span></div>
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simulate reality, but to create the right environment for visual storytelling.
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Playboy Slovenia, we used nature's greatest gift, the sunlight. Large
white surfaces that make those Greek houses look so sexy were used to reflect
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surgery -you never can tell it is there. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All the light that was not provided
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great team of people that helped on the way. They were all skilled
photographers yet always ready to give a hand, eagerly grabbing the reflector
or carrying heavy equipment across steep staircases of tiny boutique hotels. It
was a true team effort and many thanks go out to <a href="http://shootthecenterfold.com/" target="_blank">STC</a> for making it an amazing
experience. It is a perfect case of turning ideas into actions and bringing
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Just a sneak peek into one of our recent <a href="http://www.bravnicar.com/main.php" target="_blank">photoshoots</a>...</div>
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<b>MURA SS14*Lookbook</b></div>
<b>Models</b>: Ines D. and Miha D.<br />
<b>Make-up</b>: Luka Luka<br />
<b>Mura team</b>: Chris Woo, Štefka Varga<br />
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<b>Photographer's assistant and BTS</b>: Anže Godec</div>
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my Land – artists from the Mediterranean </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>Curated by Francesco
Bonami and Emanuela Mazzonis</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>4. julij - 29. september 2013</i><br />Museo MAXXI, Rim</span><br /><u><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b>THE SEA IS MY LAND</b></span></u><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Nešteto pokrajin, a le eno morje. 46.000 kilometrov obale, ki povezuje tri celine. Križišče narodov, civilizacij in zibelka najstarejših kultur. Ob stoletnici italijanske Banca Nazionale del Lavoro BNL, članice ene največjih svetovnih bančnih skupin BNP Paribas, so v duhu povezovanja kulturnih in umetniških dialogov pripravili multimedijsko razstavo »THE SEA IS MY LAND«, ki presega fizične družbene meje, verski pluralizem in etnične okvirje. K sodelovanju so povabili po enega avtorja iz vsake države, ki meji na sredozemsko morje in nastal je skupek dvaindvajsetih vizij Mediterana, ki povezujejo Španijo, Francijo, Monako, Italijo, Malto, Hrvaško, Bosno in Hercegovino, Črno goro, Albanijo, Grčijo, Ciper, Turčijo, Sirijo, Libanon, Izrael, Palestino, Egipt, Libijo, Tunizijo, Alžirijo, Marko in kakopak tudi Slovenijo. Kot predstavnika naše države sta priznana kuratorja Francesco Bonami in Emanuela Mazzonis izbrala Aleša Bravničarja, ki bo na ogled postavil sredozemske podobe iz njegove nadvse uspešne serije miniaturnih svetov Miniverse I in II. <a href="http://bravnicar.blogspot.com/2009/05/miniverse-like-alice-in-wonderland.html" target="_blank">Miniverse I </a>smo premierno predstavili v Galeriji Fotografija na razstavi leta 2008, <a href="http://bravnicar.blogspot.com/2010/09/miniverse-ii-or-how-to-check-in-for.html" target="_blank">Miniverse II </a>pa leta 2010 v stavbi Letališča Jožeta Pučnika.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><br />Razstava, ki jo bo pospremil tudi mednarodni fotografski natečaj, bo na ogled v <a href="http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/" target="_blank"><b>Narodnem muzeju umetnosti XXI. stoletja MAXXI</b></a>, enem najbolj prestižnih in sodobnih rimskih muzejev, od 4. julija do 29. septembra 2013. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A thousand things together. Not one landscape, but countless
landscapes. Not one sea, but a progression of seas. Not one civilisation, but a
series of civilisations piled one on top of the other</i>". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Fernand Braudel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
Mediterranean: 46,000 km of coastline linking twelve inland seas, the three
continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and two cultural hemispheres – east and
west. As well as being a geographical entity, the Mediterranean Sea is a
crossroads for peoples, cultures, religions, languages and political and
economic systems. Its coasts are a point of encounter between civilisations
that are constantly coming together or moving apart, communicating or clashing,
forging relations that are not always peaceful.<br />
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This area was the cradle for the world’s most ancient cultures: Western
Christian, Greek-Slavonic, Jewish, Arab and Egyptian, and its coasts are dotted
with historic cities that played a key role in economics, commerce and culture:
Barcelona, Seville, Venice, Genoa, Istanbul, Marseilles, Tunis and Alexandria.<br />
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This basin is home to the world’s richest artistic heritage, from
archaeological sites to the cities of art of the past and future, that continue
to bear witness to urban and cultural transformations. The migration flows that
since time immemorial have invaded and crossed the area from north to south,
east to west, mingle the many racial identities present in these areas and give
rise to encounters that can lead to new understandings, or discord and
tensions, forging new social and cultural trajectories.<br />
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Unfortunately these encounters often run the risk of turning into civil
conflicts and generating interminable political clashes. This basin of social,
economic, political and cultural revolutions spawns radical, ongoing transformations
that continue to reflect the complexity of cultural integration between
different peoples. In this milieu of constant change, the Mediterranean is also
an arena for cultural dialogue, where the impartiality of art has the power to
overcome social barriers, religious pluralism and ethnic dispersion, and foster
peaceful communication among those concerned. The exhibition The Sea is My Land
came about with these ideas in mind, bringing together <b>22 artists </b>from the 2<b>2 countries that are
bordered by the Mediterranean Sea</b>: Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Malta,
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Cyprus,
Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and
Morocco.<br />
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The aim is to foster dialogue between arts, countries and people, exploring the
distances and relationships between different geographical areas. The
exhibition looks to photography and video to reveal the ongoing interactions
between these numerous nationalities: the works reveal how artists originally
from one country migrate elsewhere to study, analyse and narrate events going
on in countries similar or different to their own. The works go beyond
political and geographical confines, as the artists grapple with critical
situations to reflect on local identities and the changes wrought by every
revolution. As the etymological origin of the word Mediterranean shows –
medius, ‘middle, between’ + terra, ‘land, earth’ – this area is a crucial
intersection that lies at the heart of complex social and cultural mechanisms,
multiple ideologies, singular affinities and heterogeneous harmonies: forces
that make it an enduring source of inspiration for art.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ammar Abd
Rabbo (Syria)<br />
Yuri Ancarani (Italy)<br />
Taysir Batniji (Palestine)<br />
Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria)<br />
Marie Bovo (Spain)<br />
<b>Aleš Bravničar (Slovenia)</b><br />
Stéphane Couturier (France)<br />
Fouad Elkoury (Lebanon)<br />
Mounir Fatmi (Morocco)<br />
Dor Guez (Israel)<br />
Mouna Karray (Tunisia)<br />
Panos Kokkinias (Greece)<br />
Adelita Husni-Bey (Libya)<br />
Irena Lagator Pejović (Montenegro)<br />
David Maljkovic (Croatia)<br />
Mark Mangion (Malta)<br />
Mladen Miljanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina)<br />
Moataz Nasr (Egypt)<br />
Adrian Paci (Albania)<br />
Christodoulos Panayiotou (Cyprus)<br />
Agnès Roux (Monaco)<br />
Arslan Sukan (Turkey)</span></div>
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Driven by an unstoppable hunger for great pictures and epic locations,
photographer Ales Bravnicar and his team recently set their course for India to
shoot another beautiful top model.<br />
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You may not know it, but Ales Bravnicar is not only the master of light and
shadow, he is also a master in researching and selecting amazing locations and
integrating them into his glamour work. He handpicks every GPS coordinate as
meticulously as he does his subjects. For many years now, he has been
photographing scantily clad top models in all four corners of the world. When
asked if this is his version of a true dream job, he laughingly replied, “If
you do what you love you’ll never work a day in your life. I do not take it as
a job, it is just fun.”<br />
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The Indian photoshoot happened away from the public eye in the shelter of
private locations assisted by just a handful of locals. There, Ales was able to
focus on the shooting without the curious crowds India is so famous for and the
model was able to concentrate on posing. Her years of experience in the fashion
industry helped enormously.<br />
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The 26-year old model Ales photographed is no stranger to fame – she splits
her time between partying in the clubs of Milan, Munich and Miami with Felipe
Massa, Erick Morillo or Mel Gibson and shooting international campaigns from
Barcelona to Boston for clients like Lexus, Guess and Gillette – the latter
with “Oblivion” superstar Olga Kurylenko. Being a part of the elite model team,
she knows very well how to put the “show” in showbusiness.<br />
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Ales used to travel with portable strobes, but stopped bringing them on
assignments after the Pelican case they were in never got opened for three
consecutive trips. “Why not use natural light, the one gift we have available
for free? I absolutely adore the play of shadows and highlights created by
available light.<br />
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It is amazing but only if you can control it!” says Ales. “The key thing I have
to concentrate on to get the most out of the situation is no longer how to
position the strobes, but how to position the model. After the model strikes
the perfect pose we add the missing light with reflectors.” He carries at
least two zebra/white California Sunbounce reflectors and swears by them.
“Unlike circular reflectors that shimmer even in mild wind, these never bend
and are ultra light. Just perfect for any situation.” The reflectors are used
for much more than just bouncing light. Ales has an assistant cover him and the
model with one when reviewing the pictures. It also gets spread on the floor to
protect the equipment from sand and moisture. “There are at least a hundred
uses for a fabric reflector. That’s why you always need to bring more than
one,” says Ales. “However, avoid the cheap ones. Remember, in our industry,
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ales-bravnicar-master-lighting/id590853274?mt=11" target="_blank">lighting is everything</a>.”<br />
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. After the shoot, the team sets
off to visit some of the local sights and attractions, most notably the palace
where Christopher Nolan shot scenes for his latest Batman movie. Aleš
celebrated his birthday on the way back to the base camp and it was on this
four-hour drive down slow and treacherous Indian roads that their car got hit
by a raging bull. “India’s most sacred of all animals must have hated the loud
Bangla music from the car’s screeching speakers,” jokes Ales. “We were in the
middle of the party and our driver was doing the Flash Gordon speed of at least
10 m.p.h. when something with horns hit our car from the side. Nobody was hurt
and the bull proudly walked away really slowly, head raised and all. We laughed
for hours.” In India it is a crime to hit a cow with the car… but what if the
cow hits you?<br />
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As you read this, Ales’s Indian pictorial is being published around the globe. Aleš, who as <a href="http://www.bravnicar.blogspot.com/2013/01/being-canon-ambassador.html" target="_blank">a true Canon Ambassador</a> used two EOS bodies
for the job, plus one compact PowerShot G for BTS footage, will share his
experience on traveling light and getting high-quality results at one of the
upcoming <a href="http://shootthecenterfold.com/" target="_blank">Shoot The Centerfold</a> seminars. Meanwhile, you can check out his very
own <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ales-bravnicar-posing-guide/id541483498?mt=11" target="_blank">posing guide</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ales-bravnicar-master-lighting/id590853274?mt=11" target="_blank">lighting diagrams</a> in the iTunes store. Watch this space!<br />
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